Sentence examples for mere statement of 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".

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.

Forced Out With Millions By 2005, the word was out that WaMu would accept applications with a mere statement of the borrower's income and assets — often with no documentation required — so long as credit scores were adequate, according to Ms. Zaback and other underwriters.

There are no mere statements of dogma.

"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.

A simple statement of principles?

The mere statement and illustration of the theory in that paper is of course but preliminary to an attempt at a detailed proof of it, the plan of which I have arranged, and in part written, but which of course requires much [research in English libraries] and collections, a labor which I look.

"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".