It was an excuse for revenge.

She's weak, powerless. A mere human.

The mere thought of her son warmed her heart.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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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 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.

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

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

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 .

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Article 9 Final provisions This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1999 . This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

From La isla desconocida (The unknown island), Cuban intellectual Enrique Ubieta considers the notion that Carromero will get parole or house arrest and his sentence will be reduced to a mere formality.

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

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

For overriding political reasons, Elizabeth wished neither to convict nor acquit Mary of murder, and there was never any intention to proceed judicially the conference was intended as a political exercise.

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.

Normal hospitality and token gifts may be accepted to avoid causing offence .

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.

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 .

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.

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

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

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.

She also developed a vision of the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number crunching, while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on those capabilities.

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.

Groupers or gropers are fish of any of a number of genera in the subfamily Epinephelinae of the family Serranidae, in the order Perciformes.

At the end of the same year, Olaf decided to leave Labyrinth, to focus just on Vision and also deciding to stop any rumours from some magazine, pretending to consider Vision as nothing but a side project .

Normal hospitality and token gifts may be accepted to avoid causing offence .

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