Sentence examples similar to mere measures from inspiring English sources

It would certainly have been interesting to collect information on the organization of staff and patient care, but the resources are so few and sub-standard that even a coarse measure as the mere amount of available human resources is of interest.

The minister also criticized previous bailouts, calling them mere stopgap measures, and said his government was committed to bringing about a more comprehensive turnaround.

But what it took to end it all, it seems, was 1 minute 20 seconds of music, a cadenza of a mere 30 measures.

To the dissidents, there is a critical distinction between the reforms of past weeks — which one political leader calls mere "corrective measures" — and the deeper changes in everything from education to the economy that they believe would enable Myanmar to rise again.

In addition, the recent debate on the 'distance puzzle' proves a classification as per mere distance measures inferior to a grouping according to trade costs (Bosquet and Boulhol 2015).

He needs radical and serious action from Russia and Europe that would back him in taking a courageous and bold initiative beyond mere cosmetic measures that would inevitably backfire.

Random (and so far soft) purges, a ban on foreign bank accounts and anti-American hysteria may be mere half-measures, but even they may be too extreme.

The government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, endorsed by the Iraqi parliament yesterday, is firmly structured along sectarian lines, a feature Iraqis were hoping was a mere temporary measure in the aftermath of the chaotic fall of the Ba'athist regime and the even more chaotic occupation that followed.