Sentence examples for since mere from inspiring English sources

SINCE mere mention of the name Wilhelm Furtwängler still pushes people's buttons, perhaps the fairest way to encounter his Symphony No. 2 in E minor is to listen to the new Teldec recording by Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony blindfolded.

Since mere typewriters could never keep up with her, she neatly avoided them and dictated her fiction to awestruck assistants who wrote furiously, backed up by tape recorders.

Apparently, de Gaulle does not think it useful to fight against Communism in the name of any ideology, even a denunciation of capitalism, since mere capitalism is no longer the acute question.

Since mere moments after the idea was broached, lawmakers have also found themselves under steady questioning from the news media — local and national — demanding to know just whom they plan to sit with.

Indeed, for several years landscape art had been entirely banned from the academy's annual exhibition, since mere "transcripts" from nature could hardly be expected to occupy the same sanctified space as carefully constructed historical or biblical scenes.

This important shift in Wood's thinking helped him and the rest of us understand more clearly the emergence of liberalism in 19th-century America, since mere feelings of benevolence proved too weak at that time to restrain the overriding commercial values of individualism and self-interest.

Such a fund probably wouldn't have to be used, since its mere existence should put an end to the cycle of fear.

Since no mere mortal could understand the "thinking" behind such nanosecond trading, ordinary investors — even longtime institutional traders — would have little clue as to why any company's share price was moving up or down in any moment.

But neither Ms. Moody nor agency officials who had accepted the invitations committed a crime, since "the mere act of passing an envelope is insufficient to constitute a knowing and willful violation of the law," Mr. Morano's office said.

But by that point a certain damage had already been done, since the mere contemplation of such a military manipulation of the press helps American-hating terrorists foment lies akin to their lethal effort to portray Mr. Pearl as a C.I.A. agent.

The other approach is to directly harness the weirdness of quantum mechanics; since the mere act of observing a quantum system freezes it in one state, you can construct sophisticated communications links where it's impossible, even in theory, to eavesdrop on the message without destroying it or betraying your presence.