Sentence examples for mere version of from inspiring English sources

Central to the IRI's ideology is an animating belief in Islamic democracy not as a mere version of or alternative to western democracy, but the thing itself, democracy as it ought to be.

You'd be forgiven for thinking that such a vacation is a little over-the-top, given that at that age playing with a mere stuffed version of the mammal is fascinating in itself.

This is no mere practiced and prettified version of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" — later poets learn their craft from earlier; but they must provide the originality themselves, in resistance to what they learn.

Rather than being a mere warmed-over 3D-ised version of Mario Kart for the DS, Mario Kart 3D actually has some new stuff in it.

Zemeckis's visual tribute to the towers is no mere funereal nostalgia, not just a cinematic version of "De mortuis nil nisi bonum," but a reflexive declaration of artistic kinship.

"Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You" isn't mere documentary.

In fact, the modern version of marriage emerged a mere couple of hundred years ago.

It turns a day-long, maybe even week-long ordeal into a mere 45 minute cuss-fest when ANY version of Windows self-destructs and croaks on you.

The lower-horsepower, rear-wheel-drive version of the Huracan costs a mere $199,800 before taxes and destination charges.

They agonize over "the observer effect," their version of the physicists' uncertainty principle: the mere presence of a tape-recording, note-scribbling stranger among an isolated people alters their behavior.

Mere affluence is what counts for shame on the Atlanta version of the "Real Housewives" franchise (which begins its second season on Thursday).