It was an excuse for revenge.

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

She's weak, powerless. A mere human.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The mere thought of her son warmed her heart.

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.

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

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

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

Perfect became his manager and he won the WWF Intercontinental Championship for the first time on October 21, 1996, defeating Marc Mero.

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.

His theory states that the act of smiling itself actually makes us feel better rather than smiling being merely a result of feeling good.

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

As such , they do not represent an exhaustive list of topics to be examined , rather they are indicative of the breadth of issues for discussion and intend to serve merely as a starting point for future debate .

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

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.

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.

His judgement is not unquestioned some 20th century critics, such as Malcolm F. McGregor and John S. Morrison, proposed that he may have been a charismatic public face acting as an advocate on the proposals of advisors, or the people themselves.

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

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

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.

During the next few years, a few visual (such as yet another new format, to 22,6 cm x 29,9 cm, in 1996) and content (soccer once again was the main theme) adjustments were made.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

The Dr. Pangloss school dismissed them as benign a mere reflection of emerging economies demand for dollar reserves, which only the US could provide, and American consumers insatiable appetite for cheap merchandise imports.

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.

Until the break with Rome, it was widely believed that Ireland was a Papal possession granted as a mere fiefdom to the English king, so in 1541 Henry asserted England's claim to the Kingdom of Ireland free from the Papal overlordship.

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