Sentence examples for mere service from inspiring English sources
But the companies will be rather more than mere service providers.
New Labour has treated the state as a mere "service provider" for individuals, simultaneously increasing investment in public services and running them down through privatisation.
In Tokyo, students say, they are a relief from cramped quarters, siblings, television and the internet.Oddly, Japan's education ministry refuses to recognise juku, dismissing them as a mere service businesses.
Bill Gurley, a general partner at Benchmark Capital, a venture-capital firm, says that companies like Corio are mere "service bureaus" that do not own much in the way of intellectual property.
One leading female member of a major British Muslim organisation confided in me that much of the talk of women's rights in Islam is given mere service by Muslim men.
Both academic disciplines theoretically started to focus on this political aspect as a driving force for sustainable and positive structural change by reflecting the hitherto failure of mere service provision that tries to fill the gaps in the deficiency of the structure.
Mere lip service is not enough.
Under the papacy of John Paul II, however, that rhetoric became gradually exposed as mere lip service.
No one should receive an award for doing mere long service or holding high office.
Britain lacked the will to depose him and much of the world gave mere lip service to sanctions.
Others will think it's mere lip service, a cynical attempt to deflect attention from its low royalty rates.
