Sentence examples for mere rumours from inspiring English sources

But poorly paid government soldiers scattered as rebels advanced, fleeing mere rumours of fighting.

The mere rumours of it happening sparked a late market rally on October 4th.

We talk a little about what were then mere rumours that phone hacking had taken place at the Daily Mirror while Morgan was its editor.

Often, mere rumours that a company might be about to issue convertible bonds are enough to trigger a sell-off.Some investment banks, such as UBS Warburg, have tried to fight this by tightly controlling information about issues.

And witchcraft works: mere rumours of a candidate's special powers can raise his standing.In a country seeking to shed the scars of civil war, the ritual killings cause outrage.

At Thursday's meeting, Kerry had told representatives from all the major European banks that he wanted to "clarify and put to rest misinterpretations or mere rumours about how [the deal] is applied".

This, too, is mere rumour.

As with a run on a bank, "the mere rumour of failure can prove lethal".

The mere rumour of an LRA presence is enough to send people scattering into the bush.

The clamour around us was immensely far off now, the mere rumour of a distant uproar.

A Union soldier supposedly took it from the state capitol building in 1865 to Tippecanoe, Ohio.For years, the document was a mere rumour.