Sentence examples for mere negative from inspiring English sources

Landforms exposed for millions of years to a constant environment may display a climax (steady-state) landform association that is essentially timeless and in which landform evolution through denudation is reduced to mere negative allotropic growth.

The index hit its recession-era monthly low of negative 60 in October 2008, and the highest level it has touched since then was a mere negative 21 (this past January).

Only Christ, the Wicket Gate, admits Christian into the right road, and before he can reach it he has to be shown his error in being impressed by the pompous snob Worldly Wiseman, who stands for mere negative conformity to moral and social codes.

Against these overwhelmingly laudable qualities, mistrust often goes unnoticed as a positive social phenomenon, treated as little more than a corrosive absence, a mere negative of trust itself.

Here, the relationships and implicit norms of the three spheres of, first, love within the family, second, contractual respect within civil society and, third, solidarity within the state are supposed to be necessary in order to actualize individual autonomy, but not in the sense of mere "negative" but of "social" freedom.

A mere 6% made negative remarks about monarchs in general, and just 1% ventured anything negative about the woman herself.

Bob Dole, in contrast, had a mere four-point negative spread at this point in 1996.

Of course, interest rates weren't really close to zero, but the mere threat of negative interest rate policy would have been a powerful tool.

In fact, the mere word has negative connotations.

For many people who do not have the opportunity to come to China personally, mere exposure to negative news will only produce biased people with incomplete knowledge regarding China.

This result indicates that a mere lack of negative variables may not enhance the formation of secure attachment and suggests the requirement of positive variables.