Sentence examples for merely subject from inspiring English sources

"He's a brilliant writer for whom spies are merely subject matter," Gottlieb said.

This matters because one of the pillars of Western racism, unmentioned here, is that history belongs to whites: everyone else is either trapped in the past or merely subject to the doings of the master race.

But a high court case the same day served as a reminder that Twitter is not merely subject to social censure, but also potentially to censorship enforced by the criminal law.

Because audiences want to believe in the aspirational ideals of American democracy, they want to feel that they have power, not merely subject to power.

Standardized care illuminated a corporate culture where nursing home residents are seen as merely subject to the culture rather than part of the nursing home culture.

The evidence strongly suggests that Mr. Ghailani was tortured, not merely subjected to "aggressive" interrogation, as Mr. Goldsmith euphemistically puts it.

Over the past years, says Boris Makarenko of the Centre for Political Technologies, a sizeable number of Russians have come to consider themselves as citizens, not merely subjects.

The petroleum industry is usually thought of as separate from the chemical industry, for in the early days of the petroleum industry in the 19th century crude oil was merely subjected to a simple distillation treatment.

For in fascist societies, people are merely subjects, merely tools, in the service of the state.

For the French, these nuptial and extra-nuptial events are merely subjects for dinner conversation.

We do not know if the change in opinions is real and would convert into changed actions, or merely subjects' response to the experimental setting and to their belief that the experimenters believed that reading should have changed their opinions.