Sentence examples for merely subjects from inspiring English sources

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.

That recommendation, which industry observers expected, has caused an outcry among proponents of direct-to-consumer testing, who say that consumer tests allow people especially patients suffering from specific diseases to become participants in their health care, and in research surrounding their disease, rather than merely subjects.

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.

Recognizing that the "mind" binds people to their "self" (the observed), people are then merely subjects being rained upon (or getting too much sun) needing to "run and hide their heads" (or "slip into the shade").

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

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

This unprecedented observation on a neurosphere was uniquely enabled by our dynamic platform controlling the temporal presentation of the signals and would not have been possible by merely subjecting the cells to a persistent signal.

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.

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.