Sentence examples for mere practice from inspiring English sources

What was once a mere practice has been converted into a legal privilege.

But from the throng of reporters covering a mere practice session to the plane flying over the Eagles NovaCare Complexx pulling a banner that read, "T.O.

Sexuality has become a matter of identity ("I am lesbian") in the region, rather than mere practice ("I sleep with women"); an overt insistence on equality, rather than a covert satisfying of desire, accommodated by social norms and traditions.

But money changes owners all the day". From mighty jove, and honour, and applause". But it deals fairly when 'tis left alone". And, indeed, it is probable that at that time Thales alone had raised philosophy above mere practice into speculation; and the rest of the wise men were so called from prudence in political concerns.

Herz is bothered not only by the mere practice of using expected rather than actual results, but also by the magnitude of the assumed returns.

Thus, we are thrust back to the mere practice itself as the content of our faith rather than the symptom of some independently specifiable psychological commitment.

Swallows and swifts are mere target practice.

To raise an obvious point: are under-defended carriers (Gordon Brown's job creation gesture to Rosyth) a good idea in the 21st century or mere target practice?

What complicates matters is that we now know — indeed, we soon learned — that for Hitler the Sudetenland represented mere batting practice.

It is thus ironic that so many do yoga as a mere physical practice, or as a way to meet other body-aware people wearing spandex, or expensive and politically correct, but nonetheless sexy, yoga outfits.

Ethics cannot be regarded as an extra coating, laid up from the outside, upon a pattern of mere technical practices.