Sentence examples for merely children from inspiring English sources

Also, the GOP contends, minimum wage workers are teenagers, not whole humans, merely children.

Justice William O. Douglas wrote a dissenting opinion in the case, criticizing the New York law: "If rationality is the measure of the validity of this law, then I can see how modern Anthony Comstocks could make out a case for "protecting' many groups in our society, not merely children".

"Our aim is to see children and youth have meaningful participation in all the DRR activities in the community, wherein they are not treated as merely children but as active members of the community who have a significant role and contribution," UNICEF Tacloban DRR consultant Dante Eleuterio says.

Smetana himself was later inclined to disparage his achievement: "The Bartered Bride was merely child's play, written straight off the reel".

She was not merely the only child of a powerful father; her maternal grandfather, Isaac M. Wise, was one of the nation's leading Reform rabbis -- exceptionally influential in helping adapt an Old World religion to the New World.

There are some that meet that definition- true, but sometimes it is merely a child (with a child's mind) that is reluctant to understand another's journey.

It was the assumption that comics were merely for children that created the confusion.

Dramatizing science in misleading ways merely discourages children who might otherwise become serious scientists, he said.

As human beings — or, perhaps, merely as children of the Romantic Age — we feel guilty about our cultural supremacy.

They say they merely want children to spend more time learning at school — a notion supported by plenty of parents.

Some stories accomplish this by aiming for adults and merely wearing children's clothing, so to speak.