Sentence examples for mere practical from inspiring English sources

Some hacks could be mere practical jokes, albeit messy ones.

The recent work carried out at the School of Mathematics proves that interventions on modern buildings are mostly insensitive to their true significance and are often carried out in extreme urgency for mere practical reasons, if not for political opportunities.

But the relationship between the Clause's judicial and political manifestations is more complicated, and more fraught, than mere practical causality.

Then synchronization by light-signals could still have been regarded as a mere practical substitute for a notion of absolute simultaneity that stood on independent grounds, empirically as well as conceptually.

However, as a location where masses of people flock to every day, subway stops can come to serve more than a mere practical purpose.

Beyond mere aesthetic or practical functions, symbolic significance may impact which bridges become suicide hotspots over other convenient locations.

Meanwhile, a White House official waves away questions about American air support as mere "speculation".The practical objections to the use of air power are surmountable.

8. THE AGRARIAN MIND: Mere Nostalgia or a Practical Necessity?

The mere existence of the "Practical Money Skills Budget Journal" disseminated by America's most prominent fast-food brand offers the latest evidence that national thinking about economic matters has descended into the intellectual equivalent of dumpster-diving.

That impression may have resulted from the unfortunate perception of Confucius as a mere commonsense moralizer who gave practical advice to students in everyday situations.

He is no mere mystic but a highly practical man of the theatre whose fingerprints can be discerned wherever one looks.