Sentence examples for mere speculative from inspiring English sources

This matter is now become a mere speculative point; & we have it in our power to make it what it ought to be for the public good.

Far from seeing themselves as outlaws, the squatters believed that they were doing civilization's work in putting new land into production, and they saw themselves as the moral superiors of eastern "owners" for whom land was a mere speculative commodity that they did not, with great danger and hardship, cultivate themselves.

Indeed, discussing the matter as a mere speculative question, and looking at it apart from the pressing necessities of the country, it may almost be affirmed that the session just concluded has been far more favourable for the permanent growth of free-trade principles, than even a course of legislative action.

A policy of life insurance, without restrictive words, is assignable by the assured for a valuable consideration equally with any other chose in action, where the assignment is not made to cover a mere speculative risk, and thus evade the law against wager policies; and payment thereof may be enforced for the benefit of the assignee, and, under the system of procedure in many states, in his name.

Exactly this diagnosis was behind the criticisms against a mere "speculative nano-ethics" [27, 28].

So keep in mind that Twitter's rise is likely mere speculative earnest.

His visions were to remain mere beautiful speculative designs after he was killed in the Battle of Monfalcone at the age of 28.

As a result, many philosophers simply dismiss non-Western intellectual culture as (mere) religion, speculative thought, or literature.

So it's changed in a mere one year from an extraordinarily speculative investment to one in which today there's no longer nearly as much upside, but your downside is much more limited as well.

That body's deputy director general, Francis Gurry, said it risked turning domain names into "mere commodities for speculative gain" (out-law.com).

But millionaires can be balky, and in 1876 The Real Estate Record and Guide fumed that lots facing the park had been "a mere football for speculative ventures," without any significant mansion construction.