Sentence examples for mere targeted from inspiring English sources

The use of mere targeted chemical composition as a criterion to establish similarity between GM plants and their conventional counterparts was famously criticized as 'unscientific' in authoritative scientific journals (Millstone et al. 1999).

In particular, antigen-stimulated T-cell proliferation not only requires adequate costimulation, but also an increased density of MHC/peptide complexes on APC, as compared to mere targeting of cytotoxic activity (Schild et al, 1990; Gervois et al, 1996).

Swallows and swifts are mere target practice.

To raise an obvious point: are under-defended carriers (Gordon Brown's job creation gesture to Rosyth) a good idea in the 21st century or mere target practice?

The bored and lonely consumers who find comfort in Facebook chit-chat are pawns in the enterprise, mere targets for commodities.

Some officials have publicly stated the date is a mere target and any force reduction will be purely symbolic, but the President himself is quoted as insisting on a firm timetable, because "I can't lose the whole Democratic Party".

Part of that transformation was due to attempts by the crown to monopolize financial penalties, but other changes sprang from the inability of the system to include adequate consideration of the victim as more than a mere target of crime.

Such binding is a general characteristic of attention (Treisman & Gelade, 1980), and recent work has shown that a robust hallmark of attention (the N2PC) is specifically associated with the combined localization and identification of targets in a visual search task (Hyun, Woodman, Vogel, Hollingworth, & Luck, 2009) but unassociated with mere target detection.

A fee exemption policy for pregnant women, that in essence consists of abolishing user fees for a certain group of the population, may seem at first a simple intervention: it can be introduced by mere administrative fiat, targets a well-specified group and has a simple causal chain: abolishing user fees reduces financial access barriers and leads thus to higher utilisation by pregnant women.

In introducing the law, its sponsors assured members of Congress that it would never be used to target mere speech.

Goldstone, however, used the account of the air strike as a sign that Israel's attack on the mill was not mere collateral damage, but precisely targeted and a possible war crime.