This is not mere hijacking.
This is not mere philosophical grandstanding.
Some regions will face more than mere rationing.
Still, that is largely a matter of mere nuisance.
Is this a mere irritant in America's vast economy, or the start of something much worse?
Even so, the mere threat that they could be shifted will depress wages.
Some of this intransigence is mere posturing, with both sides attempting to size one another up after the mid-terms.
Her name was Rachel, and I mooned my way through grade and high school, stricken at the mere sight of her, tongue-tied in her presence.
I first saw the Eskimo, and will, I suppose, always first see what I first saw there, as if the Indian was mere afterthought.
In a stirring eulogy delivered at Jobs' memorial, held at Standford University's memorial Church on October 16, Simpson revealed the last words Jobs uttered mere hours before he died.
It doesn't need a reason to love a person. Likewise, it's no reason to hate a person. Even if he is far away, he will feel nauseous at the mere thought.
But is this mere propaganda?
This is not a mere technicality.
Many already subsist on the mere threshold of survival.
Men who dare to enjoy themselves amidst pressure that would grind mere mortals to dust.
That was a mere fragment of the vast throng that gathered in the same place four years ago.
The mere act of thanking people releases chemicals within the body including "reward" chemicals such as dopamine and serotonin - a neurotransmitter that makes us feel serene and happy.
I am not thinking of mere forms of politeness, such as saying "please" and "thank you" : formal manners are most fully developed among barbarians, and diminish with every advance in culture.
On important problems which are complicated and on which opinions differ, there must, in addition, be personal consultations before the meeting to enable the members to think things over, lest decisions by the meeting become a mere formality or no decision can be reached.
It's not a mere amusement.
The stream is reduced to a mere trickle in summer.
The folks behind Hipmunk's airfare and hotel searches know that good trips are about more than mere numbers.
Therefore, if the unique source of information on the system is not in the mere source code, how can we rebuild its architecture?
Is the shinning example shown by RGS a mere flash in the pan, or is it the harbinger of a more caring society, in which human kindness is valued no less than material success or scholastic achievement?
She degenerates into a mere slut!
We should have known, of course, that for him the term is a mere euphemism.
By 2010, the Fed economists reckon, Labour supply in America will be rising by a mere 0.4% a year, well under half its current rate.
A mere formality, of course.
Prison, Police and Laws are mere patchwork and, in fact, tend to make things worse over time.
This was mere insensitivity.
Such terror of the unseen is so far above mere sensual cowardice that it will annihilate that cowardice.
I should guess it was her own, 'said Heathcliff.' She degenerates into a mere slut!
Several people took a gesture of political confrontation on the street akin to "perfor-mance art," but this remains a mere episode, as long as we do not set a "zero tolerance" goal.
What he has said is a mere commonplace.
