Sentence examples for mere term from inspiring English sources

One man's resistance is another man's terrorism (and both may be right; the linguistic trouble arises when they are not, and the meaningful terrorism is broadened into a mere term of abuse).And so on, and on.

When asked this question: "If this were true, even the mere term conventional truth would be unacceptable, for whatever is conventional is incompatible with truth," Gorampa Replies: "Since [conventional] truth is posited only in relation to a conventional mind, there is no problem.

Relationships, however, go deeper than mere terms and conditions, and research suggests that fulfilling, self-affirming work far outweighs mere wealth accumulation as a motivation for people to get out of bed in the morning.

Gamemakers often err on the side of caution, stuffing their creations with as much material as possible, lest they face the accusation that the work is insubstantial — not in terms of the weight of its message or meaning but in mere terms of its bulk.

In mere terms of carbon dioxide, however, the results reveal that the effect of the tunnel may be strengthened if added to an adequate policy in favour of the railway and that the amounts of CO2 produced should not be considered by themselves but in connection with their relative travel demand.

The contract covers a range of matters and it needs to properly address each individual consideration, which go far beyond mere terms of compensation.

It is a real blow for a manufacturer to find that his expensively nurtured trademark has become--however flatteringly--a mere generic term.

That's no mere political term or literary genre.

At the time, the circumstances were certainly propitious, even though she was a mere third-term Congresswoman from New York, of scant national reputation.

The manager has 48 hours in which to conjure reinforcements for his depleted squad, his search for a striker increasingly frantic even if he will not be cornered into completing deals with mere short-term benefits.

But Facebook has one clear research advantage over Google, said Cameron Marlow, the head of Facebook's 10-member research department: its material is much richer than mere search terms.