She's weak, powerless. A mere human.

Quantum physics is too difficult for a mere mortal to understand.

It was an excuse for revenge.

This is the spruce Gran Picea, which at 9,550 years is a mere babe in the woods.

I'm not a real fish, I'm just a mere plushy.

Such region wide instability is not just a theoretical scenario it follows from developments on the ground.

The Vaisheshika school of philosophers believed that an atom was a mere point in space.

You cannot say it's a mere treatment 10,000 dollars, but because you are poor I'll give it for 9,000.

I was merely a connoisseur of movies featuring desert planets, as I still am.

But this is no happy go lucky, best selling, superficial self help book.

The mere thought of her son warmed her heart.

The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vladivostok last year created a mere enclave of development.

And in this rapidly evolving context, it's possible to imagine a world in which the mobile phone becomes something far more than a medium for social interaction.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

Definition is merely a circuitous method of stating an identity a tree is a vegetable growth is logically no more than a tree is a tree.

He denounced Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan as a mere puppet of the sinister governor of Illinois, John Peter Altgeld.

Impressive. And the rate of technological evolution speeds up, so a mere quarter of a century after this, you get this, OK.

And it might true that just the mere act of thinking can change your connectome an idea that you may find empowering.

Though often dismissed as a mere transactional manager, Bush had one of the best foreign policy records of the past half century.

Elusion Camus perceives filling the void with some invented belief or meaning as a mere act of eluding that is, avoiding or escaping rather than acknowledging and embracing the Absurd.

History Makhachkala's historic predecessor was the town of Tarki, now a nearby suburb, whose history goes back to the 15th century and possibly much earlier.

The vocabulary of aggressive acts is limited and the repertory of images, very poor a mere decal of the conservative, media trained imagination.

Every blogger present declared blogging in Uganda to be a purely social exercise, evidenced by the recent 8 Random Things meme circulating among Ivan, Magoola, Magintu and others.

He offered to make William Sovereign Prince of Holland in exchange for his capitulation whereas a stadtholder was a mere civil servant.

Years later, Brünhild, still feeling as if she had been lied to, goads Gunther into inviting Siegfried and Kriemhild to their kingdom.

In 214 BC he served at Capua, and the historian Wilhelm Drumann imagines that already, at the age of 20, he was a military tribune.

But the only way I can describe what I was seeing that day was that this octopus was playing, which is a pretty sophisticated behavior for a mere invertebrate.

Tarkovsky once said that a director who realizes somebody else's screenplay without being involved in it becomes a mere illustrator, resulting in dead and monotonous films.

Not enough mere will of police officers and prosecutors (2 2) CPICiber

The brain learns, because of this Hebbian, associative link, that the mere command to move the arm creates a sensation of a paralyzed arm.

Mitt Romney, now the Republican presidential candidate, attacked the plan as mere stimulus that would throw a cup of gasoline on the embers of the recovery.

Indeed, nuclear energy is a safer proposition now than ever before, but, for many people, the mere spectacle of an event like Fukushima regardless of the outcome is sufficient to draw the opposite conclusion.

The core of the problem and what has made it an international issue rather than just a domestic Australian problem is that the would be refugees (mainly from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, and Sri Lanka) have been dying in harrowing numbers.

He has chosen to respond by tightening his autocratic grip, with the body that appoints prosecutors and judges set to become a mere appendage of the justice ministry.

And if we look from the experiential point of view, there is a primary quality of consciousness that's just the mere fact to be cognitive, to be aware.

Obama swung into action, now not just a suspect candidate but a trusted president whose services were sorely needed by the battered population of the East Coast.

Between 1888 and 1901, Wilhelm resented his Uncle, a mere heir to the throne, treating him not as emperor of Germany, but merely as another nephew.

The new model now being tested by the Commission ought not to lead to a process of nationalisation pure and simple which would undermine the established competition policy.

The name, Menes , means He who endures , which, Edwards (1971) suggests, may have been coined as a mere descriptive epithet denoting a semi legendary hero ... whose name had been lost .

Arianism held that Jesus, while not merely mortal, was not eternally divine and was, therefore, of lesser status than the Father.

Neapolitan campaign Nelson was dismayed by Spencer's decision, and declared that he would rather have received no title than that of a mere barony.

However, the universal vote was, to Salazar, an expression of mere consent and did not provide realistic options for voters.

Tin Machine's first world tour was a commercial success, but there was growing reluctance among fans and critics alike to accept Bowie's presentation as merely a band member.

In the depths of our hearts we all experience the Green Ensign we all feel that it is something more than a mere symbol of a language.

Regarding God, Cioran has noted that without Bach, God would be a complete second rate figure and that Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure .