Sentence examples for mere part of from inspiring English sources

What happens when the balance of power is upended, and the producer isn't just a worker for hire, a mere part of the pop-star ecosystem?

For impermanent-permanent appears as permanence and as impermanence, and each of these is the entirety, not a mere part, of the whole.

This paper is an expansion of Alexander's less rigorous (1909 10), where he compares the new conception of mind as a mere part of the universe as opposed to being at the centre of the universe to the move from geocentrism to heliocentrism.

Moreover, seeking to grasp the whole of what is from the Absolute standpoint leads the German Idealist philosopher to grasp particular beings not as they are, but rather as mere parts of or manifestations of "the All".

Although the Stranger admits that he is wandering from the topic and should put off discussion of method until another occasion, he tarries a little longer to give a lecture on the difference between mere parts of a kind and parts that are themselves genuine kinds (Statesman 263b).

An object at a time — Descartes in 1625, for example — is not the whole object but, rather, a mere part (a temporal part) of that object; and the relation between Descartes in 1625 and Descartes in 1635 is like the relation between the two wheels of a bicycle: they are different parts of a bigger whole.

However the power outage came about, whether it was a mere accident or part of a larger, more sinister plot, there's no doubt that it was the most memorable part of Super Bowl XLVII.

Geoff Ryman's brilliant book Was, for instance, catalogues the flukes and graces that turned The Wizard of Oz from a mere bestseller into part of our mental landscape.

Even the rawest and most intimate moments in his life are now widely seen as mere theatrics, all part of a presidential campaign strategy designed by his ambitious, up-from-nothing parents, Albert and Pauline LaFon Gore, before he was born, and even unto death.

Such phenomenon are neither episodic nor mere coincidence, but part of a pervasive pattern that strongly suggests that the most rabid homophobes are usually gay.

As well as re-creating the look of the castle it was hoped that a new mere would be part of the ongoing flood alleviation plan for the area and that the lake could be used for boating and other waterside recreations.