Sentence examples for mere payment from inspiring English sources

If the incentive for good deeds mutates into a mere "payment", it risks blunting goodwill.

The administration needs to move beyond a policy encouraging mere payment modifications and toward one pushing hard for a renegotiation of principal based on lower, post-bubble values.

The agency accepted a mere token payment that will not even come out of the individual's own pocket.

It was a mere down payment by political machines that will flood the 2012 campaign with anonymous cash from corporations, unions and nonprofit groups.

It doesn't matter much even if the borrower is Uncle Sam or your state, because statistically their borrowing is a mere "transfer payment" of cash that ultimately ends up in private hands anyway.

It was a bad deal," said Judge James Chalfant, noting that Hollister handed over a mere $100,000 down payment.

That being the case, such an obligation cannot be discharged by mere monetary payment.

The New York lawyer who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the families, Jonathan Reiter, said Chiquita's support of the A.U.C. went beyond mere "protection payments" and included the shipment of thousands of rifles.

However the police officers investigating the money transfers said that they had discovered documentation indicating a business relationship between Mr. Saroussi and Mr. Weizman, raising suspicions that the transfers may not have been mere gifts but payment for services.

Given such people's strong interest in saving their friends' or relatives' lives, one would think that many of them will not be put off by the mere possibility of payment.

The third (related) objection is that no matter how dangerous paid donation is, it need not be any more dangerous than unpaid donation, since the mere fact of payment does not add any danger.