Sentence examples for mere poor from inspiring English sources

That was their second successive finish of 21st in the bottom division, the lowest in their history, but in the scheme of things mere poor results on the pitch and the threat of relegation were small fry compared with what had come before.

Nor is this mere talk.

In the struggle for dominance, silliness often relegates humanity's simple justice, the plight of the poor mere pawns of the ideological struggle and Jerusalem the center of 3 religions this microcosm's pivotal example.

As "An Orthodox Hospitable Old Englishman" wrote in the St James's Chronicle in November 1766, Hume's conduct in the affair showed "a philosopher when provoked is not a better man at bottom than the poor mere bigot of religion".

This suggests that a high resting heart rate is not a mere marker of poor physical fitness but is an independent risk factor.

But this is as knee-jerk as the liberal response to welfare reform, which saw it as mere punishment of the poor.

The March 2015 U.S. Justice Department's report on Ferguson, Missouri, provides a horrifying glimpse of what can happen when governments treat the poor as mere revenue sources.

Adherence to guidelines for rational prescribing in AOM has been poor, so mere existence of guidelines has not reduced prescription rates sufficiently or enduringly.

A mere 2% of the poorest fifth of Scottish 18-year-olds had grades sufficient for entry to top-tier universities, a percentage point behind England.Whatever the complexion of the government, schools will feel the pinch in the next parliament.

Most of the fossils the scientists studied were mere fragments and in very poor condition.

By 1790, the average person's consumption in England was still just 2,322 calories a day, with the poor eating a mere 1,508.