It was an excuse for revenge.

She's weak, powerless. A mere human.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The mere thought of her son warmed her heart.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The undertaking concerned shall be notified in writing of the decision and shall be informed of its right of review , to which the following paragraph refers .

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.

In the uprising that took place in Tehran against the regime in 2009, for instance, the ethnic opposition did not participate, as they viewed the movement as a mere derivative of the regime itself.

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.

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.

In 1980, Australian author Thomas Keneally by chance visited Pfefferberg's luggage store in Beverly Hills while en route home from a film festival in Europe.

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.

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

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.

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

Cameron felt the Titanic sinking was like a great novel that really happened , but that the event had become a mere morality tale the film would give audiences the experience of living the history.