Sentence examples for mere welfare from inspiring English sources

She defended the classical ideals of work, citizenship, and political action against what she considered a debased obsession with mere welfare.

The mere mention of welfare ("cash assistance," in the parlance) typically generates discomfort.

UK state pensions are still way below those in the US, which does not pretend to have a welfare state: a mere 31% of average pay, compared with 39% in the US.

It would thus be an oversimplification to attribute social welfare in Norway to the mere effect of oil-driven growth.

But this is as knee-jerk as the liberal response to welfare reform, which saw it as mere punishment of the poor.

First of all, our close working team and organization community will see the positive consequences of our actions, moved by the welfare of our community, and not by mere profits.

Does such a triumph of the will to understand reduce compassion for the welfare of those who are less than human to mere sentimentality?

He is aware that many people — including "the politically homogeneous discipline of psychology" — equate morality with justice, rights and the welfare of the individual, and dismiss everything else as mere social convention.

An expansion of choices that people enjoy to improve their own welfare requires vast social institutional development over and above mere economic development.

In New York, welfare caseloads shrank by 30percentt, but child poverty fell a mere 7percentt.

These included an overwhelming focus on issues related to informed consent, the welfare of the vulnerable, the treatment of individuals as people rather than mere subjects, and considerations of compensation and profit sharing.