Sentence examples for mere statement from inspiring English sources

A mere statement of good intentions is not enough.

Its old corporate slogan, "You can be sure of Shell", seemed a mere statement of fact.

Moody's courage, such as it was, went beyond this mere statement of the obvious.

"Worriers can rarely be calmed by a mere statement of the opposite," he writes, "which is a pity, since it is a staple technique of the non-worrier's advice to the worrier".

What seems to have escaped those that came up with this idea is that if you single out a particular community with legislation, policy or mere statement, you deem it to be different and indeed separate from the rest of society.

Since light, perforce, is the common denominator of all visual art, something other than the mere statement of this truism must have been intended — something less obvious and more particular to contemporary art — but to this day no one knows what it was.

There are no mere statements of dogma.

"I am equally concerned with you in regard to the gravity of the present banking situation," Roosevelt wrote Hoover on March 1, "but my thought is that it is so very deep seated that the fire is bound to spread in spite of anything that is done by way of mere statements".

I would never blame any of these ladies for appearing in the adverts – they are perfectly free to do as they wish – but I cock my snoot at the fashion industry for reducing these brilliant human beings to mere statements about an aspirational lifestyle.

Jesus answers with a story, as he is wont to do, for stories have a power mere statements cannot bear.

"The statements that the Maxons bribed certain officials in order to obtain approval for their zoning request are not mere statements of opinion," the court concluded.