Sentence examples for the mere necessities from inspiring English sources

Not just below the level of comfortable living, but real poverty, in the old-fashioned sense of the word — that they are hard put to it to get the mere necessities, beginning with enough to eat.

And, indeed, at this very time, though circumstances made him so important, and in the danger of the tottering government he was recognized as the only or the ablest support of it, yet he well understood that he owed not his high position to any good-will or kindness, but to the mere necessities of the usurper.

Still, Clarke thinks that we should affirm with some of the early church fathers that this derivation of the Son from the Father is "not by mere Necessity of Nature, (which would be in reality Self-existence, not Filiation;) But by an Act of the Father's incomprehensible Power and Will" (141, original emphases).

He carries the bare necessities.

Packed the bare necessities.

Get the bare necessities.

Strip down to the bare necessities.

Food is more than a mere necessity; it nurtures, and binds people to each other and their cultural identity.

No longer a mere necessity for human survival, water has become an object of international financial speculation and experts predict that "blue gold" will soon become the most important physical commodity worldwide, dwarfing oil and precious metals.

Similarities to that publication are a mere necessity for ensuring autonomy of this work.

Although we sometimes act under necessity (compulsion or restraint E1-5 II.xxi.13: 240), the mere fact (if it is a fact) that our actions are determined by the laws of nature and antecedent events does not threaten our freedom with respect to their performance.