Sentence examples for used as mere from inspiring English sources

One woman told the inquiry she felt women present at one group sex event were used as mere "receptacles".

Words, terms, phrases can be separated from the creature of their language and used as mere labels.

But even as they expressed hope that this was an opening to press for democratic change, the businessmen said they also had to worry about being used as mere window dressing to appease the international community.

These thresholds were used as mere guidelines because they can vary across studies (Kline 2005).

Sometimes, Yablo says, numbers — and other entities used as mere representational aids, but sometimes they also function as things represented.

Net-risk studies raise concern that subjects are being used as mere means to collect information to benefit future patients.

We tend to regard animals, following Kant, as those "beings we can still use as mere means".

This philosophy is apparent in RGB, as pure colors and lines which some designers use as mere building blocks in their grand compositions become a spectacle in their own right.

No refugees are named, they are only briefly alluded to, and the disastrous events of the last two years are used as a mere narrative crutch.

But then there are are those who don't so much mind the event being dramatised, as it being used as a mere backdrop, a device, even, to embellish a father-and-son romance.

The conclusion is then that cloning is wrong because the clone will be used as a mere means to others' ends.