Sentence examples for mere interest from inspiring English sources

But colloquially the term is often understood to mean someone who goes beyond mere interest to sexual abuse.

It is unclear how much Mr Xi was actively involved, or whether his mere interest in the village inspired lower-level officials.

A more enlightened spirit has thrown down this barrier, and now mere interest does not exclude one from the witness stand, but the interest is to be considered as affecting his credibility.

Rights, he said, were like trumps in bridge; they could compete with one another, but any right must override a card of any value played from the suit of mere interest.

Mr. DiGaetano said today that Assembly Republicans would be willing to delay approving any plan for the Meadowlands until the state could produce a "letter of intent" from a developer showing something more than mere interest in creating the Meadowlands sports and entertainment complex foreseen by the governor.

The irony is strong: Employing Google's valuation figure, the mere interest on the debt that Zattikka must pay is worth more than its entire business.

They would stress that negative facts, like x not being blue, heavy, etc., are constituted by our mere interests (i.e., we seek a blue thing at such and such a location and come away empty-handed), and are less real than the fact that x causes perceptions of blue, a fact which is what it is objectively and independently of interests.

Further, human rights better protect privacy than status quo informed consent arrangements or bioethical norms alone, for they can (1) hold data users legally accountable, (2) promote feasible, ethically robust standards of data governance, and (3) treat privacy and scientific advancement and its benefits as human rights (not mere interests) to promote, respect, fulfill, and balance.

This is consistent with the decision in In re Albright, 291 B.R. 538 (Bankr.D.Colo.2003) which suggested that a mere "peppercorn" interest would not break up the membership interests sufficiently to defeat that a determination that an LLC was a single-member LLC.

Nouvel's design, however, rises well above mere local interest.

But the settlers are no mere marginal interest group.