Sentence examples for mere loss from inspiring English sources

And matters could become far more serious than a mere loss of voters' support.

You can claim financial hardship -- mere loss of income doesn't fly -- if you bring in tax returns and documentation of employment status.

But if they do, it will probably need to be forced by Mr. Romney's campaign, or by developments in the news cycle, not the mere loss of post-convention momentum.

Tyson was mesmerizing because he scarcely seemed like an athlete: in his prime, he wasn't merely a competitor, he was a myth come to life, the personification of something very cruel and very powerful; step into the ring with him and you were likely to suffer something much more catastrophic than a mere loss.

In his epigraph to "Oblivion," Abrahams quotes this striking passage from "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat": "It must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess — that there is always a reaction, on the part of the affected organism or individual, to restore, to replace, to compensate for and to preserve its identity".

It is usually accepted that the mere loss of decision-making capacity is insufficient (Dworkin 1993, 222-29).

The biological consequences of p53 mutations range from the mere loss-of-function to gain-of-function.

Therefore, the altered pattern of MBNL1 expression may further contribute to the multisystemic manifestation of DM not only through the mere loss-of-function due to the titration of the RNA-binding proteins by the CUG expansions.

Although the idea that missense mutations can confer oncogenic properties to p53, in contrast to a mere loss-of-function, has been around for many years(22 24), only specific mouse models have proved that mutant p53 gain-of-function (GOF defined as the ability of p53 missense mutants to actively contribute to tumor progression and aggressiveness indeed affects tumorigenesis in vivo.

Control grains were taken from the package and dried as well; all results were corrected for the mere weight loss due to the drying process (mean loss 6 ± 1 % (mean ± SE)).

It also promises much more than mere weight loss.