Sentence examples for mere quantity of from inspiring English sources

It is not mere quantity of life that matters, but its quality; and since dying is a part of life, a good death, free of suffering, is part of a good life.

His roles in From Dusk till Dawn, Planet Terror, and The Devil's Rejects certainly qualify, but considering the mere quantity of projects Trejo's been involved in, a little horror seems like an inevitable inclusion.

He is an irrepressible filmmaker whose creative energy has been diverted to a need to vent, a brilliant rhetorician who packages his rant in the terms that his art-house audience, finding transgression in the mere quantity of sex and seriousness in the overtly intellectual discussion, will snap up.

Biomass depletion from logging activities comprise much more than the mere quantity of extracted timber.

The mere quantity of external disturbances makes it necessary to think of irritation strategies.

Moderated regressions for effects of prior knowledge and situational uncertainty on students' communicative behaviours indicate that advanced knowledge structures do not affect the mere quantity of a student's verbal contributions.

Similarly, perhaps it is a mistake to think that there literally are such things as statues and lumps of clay, as opposed to mere quantities of stuff or pluralities of particles.

Life's sanctity resides in its quality, not its mere quantity, for there is nothing sacred in suffering.

There are some hints in Morin's writings, which broadly state that materialism and individualism have shattered older forms of community, replacing them with soulless anonymity; and that to reform itself, modern civilisation should seek quality of life rather than mere quantity, the mindless accumulation of things.

For example, accumulating biodiversity information by convenience rather than explicit strategy will build the absolute number of records served, but at the severe expense of mere quantity over quality, i.e., fitness for use for biodiversity science [ 27, 28, 50].

So this record of 86 goals is an artificial construct, a figure that celebrates Messi but also reduces his achievement to mere quantity.