It is the merest sign that this young man is alive.
Are men unfairly castigated for having "man flu" and running to their sick beds at the merest sign of a sniffle?
In a design statement Mr. Libeskind writes: "In the Jewish tradition, letters are not mere signs, but are substantial participants in the story they create.
It is not, however, uncontroversial (see Floyd 1998 and 2007).[2] The "names" spoken of in the Tractatus are not mere signs (i.e., typographically or phonologically identified inscriptions), but rather signs-together-with-their-meanings — or "symbols".
"If the lines of a drawing don't convey this harassment the drawing remains a mere sign".
But Dick Cheney dismissed conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue," and administration officials waved aside pleas for a price ceiling.
Remember that Mr. Cheney sneeringly dismissed conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue," and was scathing about people who thought price controls would help.
Along the way, Mr. Cheney sneeringly dismissed energy conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue" and scorned California officials who called for price controls and said the crisis was being exacerbated by market manipulation.
In the United States in the early 1970s, citizens having attained the age of 18 were granted the right to vote; but the ceremony commemorating this right has been a secularized de-emphasis of this important rite of passage: the mere signing of one's name on a registration certificate.
This was the same administration, after all, that wanted to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling and that, in the person of Vice President Dick Cheney, had dismissed the idea that conservation could help reduce the nation's energy needs, contemptuously dismissing it as a mere "sign of personal virtue".
