Sentence examples for merely an entity from inspiring English sources

"The government is merely an entity with no foundation," he told the BBC.

In other words, an individual in a postmodern world becomes merely an entity influenced by media, technological experience, and the hyperreal.

In the third camp are those who see government neither as an angel nor a devil, but merely as an entity that needs to be controlled, or as Thomas Jefferson phrased it, bound "down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution".

However, it is cumbersome to enforce access rights based merely on an entity's username.

In addition, communities should not be considered merely as an entity to which tasks can be delegated with a view to save costs.

A company is merely a legal entity; if it is taxed, it must pass the levy on to its shareholders (in the form of lower dividends), to its workers (in the form of lower wages) or to its customers (in the form of higher prices).

It is not merely a legal entity.

Similarly, Freud, in his book "The ego and the Id", considers that "psycho-physiology has fully discussed the manner in which a person's own body attains its special position among other objects in the world of perception The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface (Freud 1923, p. 27).

Instead Dmowski argued that Poland was merely a physical entity that needed to be brought into existence through pragmatic bargaining and negotiating, not via what Dmowski considered to be pointless revolts – doomed to failure before they even began – against the partitioning powers.

To the extent that an entity merely passes along royalties from a productive well or steady income from a pipeline, imposing an extra layer of corporate tax makes little sense.

Or if this is not quite true (for, after all, it could be said that there is such a thing as having a million sides even if nothing in fact has a million sides), concrete existence must precede abstract existence in some cases at least: the "x" in "x is red" must sometimes be replaceable by an actual rather than a merely possible entity.