Sentence examples for mere pain from inspiring English sources

It is a story reminiscent of the history of aspirin, a drug that began life as a mere pain reliever and turned out to be able to help prevent heart attacks and strokes, said Dr. Salim Yusuf, director of cardiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.

The first of these claims might seem obvious, even when 'suffering' is understood to mean not mere pain but existential suffering, the sort of frustration, alienation and despair that arise out of our experience of transitoriness.

Allen et al. (2005) and Shriver (2006) argue that this dissociability provides a route to empirical assessment of the affective component of animal consciousness, and Farah (2008) uses it to distinguish suffering from "mere pain".

Yet the worsening of performance in case of successful additional provocation of pain-related cognitions (i.e. unreal pain expectancy, without increase in actual pain experience) indicates that pain-related cognitions might be as important as mere pain experience.

This suggests that our $1 trillion "stimulus" package is but a mere pain-reliever: at best a balm of temporary effectiveness that addresses the symptoms of our present ills, and not their cause.

And the costs of such delayed diagnoses go well beyond mere financial pain.

Lu claims UTStarcom's ailments are mere growing pains, a by-product of overwhelming success: "The problem is just that our company is growing very fast.

After some mandatory initial waffle about distinguishing a serious physical problem from mere sitting pains, Madewela at last said something interesting.