Sentence examples for regarded as mere from inspiring English sources

Previously such actions were regarded as mere violations of privacy.

Traditional structures and interests in society are regarded as mere impediments, with no useful function.

Because such customs and beliefs may be regarded as mere superstitions, the word survival usually has a slightly derogatory overtone.

The spectacle in court implied that vile abuse, not necessarily racist, was regarded as mere banter between professional players in their public domain.

Dig in and weigh in: The realities of poverty, anxiety, environmental degradation, and unhappiness in the midst of great plenty should not be regarded as mere curiosities.

It could be regarded as mere coincidence that United Passions' cinematic own goal at the US box office arrives alongside Jurassic World's triumph.

Not so the pleasures of the flesh, which he regards as mere sensation.

3. The opinion mentions the "Society for the Prevention of Useless Giving (known as SPUG)" whose "goals were to curtail the presentation of gimcracks (which they regarded as inappropriate as expressions of mere acquaintanceship)." Imagine you are trying to establish a new SPUG chapter for the 21st century.

The flight "competition," according to the military historian Phillip Meilinger, was regarded as a mere formality.

This was work that he regarded as a mere technical problem, a type of manual labor—"ambulance chasing" is what a prominent mathematician called it.

At first regarded as a mere exploiter of decadence, he can now be seen as gradually working beyond reportage and toward meaning.