Every campaign asserts, with seemingly genuine conviction, that the mere stepping of a spouse into the spotlight "humanizes" the candidate.
Mr Suthep has always demanded that Ms Yingluck should resign, but only to be replaced by a prime minister that is appointed by his own idea of the great and the good, rather than just another Pheu Thai placeman.Likewise Mr Suthep wants to eradicate all influence of the very rich Shinawatra clan from the body-politic, so the mere stepping-down of Ms Yingluck won't appease him and his supporters.
Reforming the rules regarding email privacy is a mere step in the walk towards correcting the mass surveillance that the United States government executes, but it is an important piece of progress all the same.
"My cynicism had reached such depths that I regarded those horrors" — the wartime camps, and the killings that came afterward — "as a mere step toward the great, ubiquitous, universal crime, Death, the premise of all our lives," he writes.
"My cynicism had reached such depths that I regarded those horrors"—the wartime camps, and the killings that came afterward—"as a mere step toward the great, ubiquitous, universal crime, Death, the premise of all our lives," he writes.
Or there's the capital Geneva, a mere step behind Zurich in the lifestyle stakes, which has a competitive property market and is a global financial hub that demands accommodation for its discerning long-term tenants.
His age regarded letter writing as an art on which could be expended the literary care appropriate to the essay or to fiction, and, for Richardson, the creation of epistolary novels entailed a mere step from the actual world into that of the imagination.
Judges are increasingly acknowledging that class-action certification, designed to be a mere step in the litigation process, all too often puts defendants under unbearable pressure to settle, even when they have a reasonable chance of winning on merit.
LOCATION In the heart of the city's densest cultural quarter, the Prado is mere steps away; the Thyssen-Bornemisza and Reina Sofía museums are a few minutes' walk.
As I am not a gourmet cook, the posting of those pictures would be a mere step above, or possibly even below, spam.
