Sentence examples for mere state from inspiring English sources

But what's a mere state line in pop-branding cyberspace?

The mere state of being without funds is a neutral fact—constitutionally an irrelevance, like race, creed, or color.

A mere state legislator four years earlier, Obama had already, it appeared, become an important world leader.

The chancellor's aides point to the living wage and a business levy to pay for apprenticeships as proof that his agenda is more sophisticated than mere state shrinkage.

The general, who saw himself as supreme military governor over five states, greater than a mere state governor, believed the power of the Army should be employed to quell dissent.

Germans are dismayed but, says Britta Altenkamp, an SPD member of the state legislature from Essen, they know "they can't have much influence" over such issues in a mere state poll.

However, the two jurisdictions are not yet mere states of mind.

It is for this reason that it is possible for me to avoid willing with respect to whether to get up right now: processes require volition to secure their continuation, but mere states (non-processes) do not (see Rickless 2000: 49–55; for a contrary view, see Glauser 2003: 710).

These two Asian giants, which until 1800 used to make up half the world economy, are not, like Japan and Germany, mere nation states.

Forgive the endless repetition of this fact, but Fifa is not a sporting body so much as a supranational entity, which demonstrates its ability to trump mere nation states and their constitutions every four years.

Moreover, a couple can mere ly state that "irreconcilable dif ferences" exist; if the judge be lieves them, he can grant a divorce.