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If this had been a mere financial crisis, it would be over by now.

Some hire people to be mere order-takers or cash register operators. But that's not what selling is all about.

Ts'ui Pen was a fine novelist but he was also a man of letters who, doubtless, considered himself more than a mere novelist.

The mere prospect of a deal seems to be forcing both sides to buck up their business, though.

But space is so great that the stars seem to us to be mere specks in the sky.

A measure of that restoration lies in the extent to which we apply social value, more noble than mere monetary profits.

The Delegation considered that the mere existence of an exclusive right to own IP did not necessarily mean anti-competitiveness.

I first saw the Eskimo, and will, I suppose, always first see what I first saw there, as if the Indian was mere afterthought.

To say the least, it was a big surprise to find out that sharks were being taken by an octopus - a mere invertebrate.

Needless to say, the examples of borrowing from American quoted in the preceding pages are a mere fraction of what might be adduced.

He said he spent a mere $150, 000 on his Iowa campaign, and a third of those who voted for him paid for their own tickets.

The spirit of the age tends to doom the lawyer to a narrow life of practice, the business man to a mere money-making career.

Sometimes it is mere coincidence that the application seems to work correctly even with bad memory errors close to the starting point.

A mere reduction absenteeism does not provide solid evidence for the proposition that robots would be better than humans for factory work.

The mere mention of his name was enough to put the devotees of Davos and other such gatherings into a swoon.

To work as an inducement, the food must be good: a mere dry biscuit is no longer sufficient to get a single bottom on to a single seat.

Before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

If anyone lift the cloth from the face of that unpleasant thing it will be in gratification of a mere morbid curiosity.

Another participant concurred, adding that this might help steer political parties towards policy formulation rather than mere opposition.

The reason his wife left him was that she couldn't bear being treated as a mere drudge.

I wanted her far away from me, so unattainable that she could continue as the mere memory she had become and remained all these years.

Like any other major economy, China has no interest in being a mere buyer of others' goods.

Spam coming out of China has consistently dropped over the last several months as well, now resting at a mere three percent.

Moreover, from the mere inspection of Cosette's toilet, a woman would have recognized the fact that she had no mother.

but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders-as if mere age were a reason for respect.

For some, however, marginality was more than a mere circumstance; it was a way of life.

I'm your mayor, and ready to do all I can, but I stand alone with a mere pitiful veto right.

It is no less than blackmail to ask such a price for a mere vase.

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show.

And even though it's unlikely he'll win anything at the Olympics, the mere fact that he's there at all seems to be enough.

Thus, it was evident that mere nonuse of the property as a road did not establish that the condition had been broken.

And that date could move up to 2026 if China lets its currency appreciate by a mere 2 percent a year.

But it seems to me that mere "hard-working" is not enough.

If I can get so much pleasure from mere touch, how much more beauty must be revealed by sight.

GDP per head, a mere $4, 000, is not even one-tenth that of the U. S. and ranks around 100th place in the world.

I may have been just a mere boat captain, but he treated me as if I was nothing!

Alibaba Group 'has no interest in turning the company into a mere money-making machine, ' Mr. Ma wrote in his email to employees.

While man's desire to explore the earth's bottom is just as great as reaching its top, the ocean floor is no mere curiosity.

In one with broken receptors, a mere 6% is enough to overload other tissues to the point where lipids would be toxic.

Only since animals are mere shadows, God has not made them capable of education in the full sense of the word; what is the use?

He had been cavalierly affronted by a man who, but a short years before, he would have considered a mere underling.

The Master knew Hari's passion for Vedanta . But he did not wish any of his disciples to become a dry ascetic or a mere bookworm.

It was the least I could do for this perfect stranger, who had brought me out of a dismal time with a mere flash of a smile.

In these days of my leisure, it was perhaps the mere whim to collect them which had come upon me.

But this was no mere accident or casual foul-up in a live programme.

The necessary, being through an other, is not in and for itself: hypothetical, it is a mere result of assumption.

But, sadly, I am taken for granted by those who use me, as if I were a mere incident and without background.

Any hope of subduing him is false; the mere sight of him is overpowering.

This elusive, almost invisible quality was more than a mere habit. Self- effacement was the essence of his technique.

Remember that it is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit.

Heidegger's view that the mere existence of such a concept of time's time, the result is obscured a man ask for existence.

The mariners called it a mere squall, took in their sails a bit and pressed on to the next port.

the model is potentially in danger of misdirection and ignorance rendering it a worn-out moniker that represents mere product features.

They often retrieve pages that include a mere passing mention of the search term, but do not really focus on the subject at all.

Though he has promised to relinquish his magic, Prospero still seems to see his daughter as a mere pawn in his game.

And yet, a mere cover-up is all they will ever be.

Causation and mere correlation often get muddied in studies like this, but either way, a sexy voice at least appears to sell the goods.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness, not to be a mere rushing on.

it is significant that those who regard international law as a form of morality usually speak of it as "mere morality" .

Elinor needed little observation to perceive that her reserve was a mere calmness of manner with which sense had nothing to do.

That this advice happens to be in their interests is, of course, mere happenstance.

How nice it would be if I could get a suit made in London. But I can't go to London with the mere purpose of buying a new suit.

In Poland they are up in arms against attempts to increase the number of hours a week (a mere 18) they have to spend teaching.

Then he plans to step out of the capsule, wearing only a special space suit and a parachute, and plunge down in a mere 15 minutes.

But a new biodegradable protein solution able to stanch bleeding in mere seconds appears to also be nontoxic and long-lasting in animals.

After all, when someone says something pleasant to you directly, it's easy to discount it as mere politeness, or even flattery.

That there have been a mere handful of confirmed deaths is probably the result of a lack of proper tests.

Both Pioneers act as though an extra force beyond mere gravity is tugging at them from the direction of the sun.

True to my surprise, It turned out that the Enlightenment from a mere one boatman, went so far as it ages better than everyone's poems.

In normal times, I find the mere cancellation of a stray lunch enough to make me feel happy and lucky all day long.

This theatre of war is bigger than the simple issue of being gay, just as the question of love swamps the question of mere sexuality.

Back in 1980, agricultural investment made up 17% of total foreign aid yet, as of 2006, it had dwindled to a mere 3% of this total.

The liberating factor is never a mere verbal comprehension but the perception of the truth or the falseness of the matter.

Nice to read that he is indeed a mere mortal like the rest of us, and has had his own struggles to overcome. . .

But she emphasizes that, for her, repentance was no mere lyrical exercise.

It would be very unseemly if the corpses had to put on immortality under the gaze of mere sight-seers.

Kingmakers do not take kindly to becoming mere courtiers, so insurrection is only a matter of time.

The mere mention of his hated cousin's name was like waving a red flag in front of him.

But the mere discussion of these matters in the British Parliament and by the public at large is, in itself, of huge importance.

Most believed it to be a mere concept of what an E-Class Coupe could look like for example, something of a preview.

As we have already begun to see, the mere threat of a disruption to the world's oil supply has caused the price of crude oil to jump.

If newspapers can keep that up in better times, they may be able to contemplate more than mere survival.

A mere glance at him and I realized what he was up to.

Is it just a bit of revolutionary propaganda, or mere playing with persuasive definitions, or a bit of Hegelian mysticism?

When I was a mere boy of an officer no one would have dared to make a laughing-stock of me like this . . . And now!

if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent.

With the mere point of a finger, I could set someone up to have lunch with a bearded newspaper reporter from Idaho.

Short answer is no. Mere possession of a gun by a suspect is NOT enough to justify deadly force.

To put it other way, the question of the essence of space is mere speculation, the secrets stay buried at the end of the world.

The mere demands from financial market participants and corporate board rooms for more money and plenty of it do not make out the case .

The mere demands from financial market participants and corporate board rooms for more money and plenty of it do not make out the case .

The result would be to keep the rate of star formation reasonably smooth, stopping a galaxy burning itself out in a mere few billion years.

Anything will do for the summer -- a mere figure -- anything that you think you could afford to pay.

But it is mere idleness to say that I had not lived before - that the soul has no previous existence.

But Epictetus gave up too many things, and I had been quick to observe that nothing was more dangerously easy for me than mere renunciation.

It would be a miracle for a mere mortal but Schumacher has always played by his own rules.

Monsieur the Marquis ran his eyes over them all, as if they had been mere rats come out of their holes.

Mere gratuity, also be like the boss, most as a miser, and may not develop to inherit the family business, the cause bigger.

He was likely a mere figurehead, unable to capitalize upon his abilities or realize his dreams.

Kratos knew that this was not a mere vision. For with the gods, nothing was ever as it seemed.

and Keimer, though something of a scholar, was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork.

We all found Mr. Smith a bit weird, for every time at the mere mention of roses he would fly into a temper.

Beyond mere bragging rights, China has economic motives for trying to go global with the renminbi.

Notice how much extra data is included in both listings beyond the mere status update.

Though never beautiful, he became so alert and merry, so trusting and affectionate, that the mere sight of him was a delight.

This book is no mere miscellany, but the story of a man's love affair with the oldest means of locomotion: one foot in front of the other.

My dog was a very pleasant and loving companion to me, for no less than sixteen years of my time, and then DY'd, of mere old age.

Germany represents the heart of the lands on the surface, and it got dark in your world, after history reduced her to a mere machine.

He advised my attending certain places in London for the acquisition of such mere rudiments as I wanted.

The girls did not so much seem accessory wheels to the general machinery as mere cogs to the wheels.

He stopped for a minute, for the mere act of speaking was fatiguing to him after the excitement of the last few weeks.

These traders take large positions, up to $2bn at a time, but hold them for only a few minutes, sometimes mere seconds.

So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for her token, the second was reluctant to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber.

Secondly, people tend to imagine that the mere existence of an international dispute proves that at least one state has broken the law.

Remember that the mere presence of the library definition in a workspace is all that's required to make the tools behave as you intended.

Just a few years ago, in a game between the Lakers and the Heat, Bynum made his presence felt in just a mere 30 seconds of play.

When one has such a notion, activity is a mere unavoidable means to something else; it is not significant or important on its own account.

Don't, Angel, be so anxious about a mere child of the soil! ' said his mother.

The energy behind a person with strong will well exceeds that of 99 people who have nothing but mere interest.

It is possible to see behind such revolts mere conspiracies.

But any one can see that this is a mere form, of which the affectation grows wearisome as the work advances.

much more passing now than the mere words indicated. He recognised the indescribable thing that made up for fascination and Beauty in her.

In conclusion, it is possible for a mere teenager to bring about changes in the world around us - and I plan to do so.

And a mere hour and fifteen minutes after takeoff, we landed in Washington. It was a pretty smooth ride, and everything was on time.

I care about this stuff. I knew that eating a mere hamburger a day can increase my risk of dying by a third.

I should some day get into a better position. Also, I felt myself no longer a mere boy, but quite a little man, and this made me happy.

Tom is a mere nobody . But he always thinks himself to be a somebody . As much as we know , he is only nobody posing as somebody.

Due to higher than the reality, so in actual practice it is often a mere formality.

Public opinion is untroubled, or sees them as a mere irritant: an obscure, geeky sort of prankster.

The company has had to pay out a mere $50, 000 progress award, to a team of three AT& T data analysts.

First- quarter operating profit dropped on a sequential basis ; this follows a year where income growth decelerated to a mere 4 per cent .

In 2007, agricultural investment had been a mere 3% of the total.

About 5 light-years long and a mere 800 light-years away, the Pencil Nebula is only a small part of the Vela supernova remnant.

They thus take the empirical world to be a mere appearance or distortion of a second world, which is thereby constituted as the true one.

At the mere mention of a civilization, we invariably call to mind those monumental buildings that are characteristic of it.

When law and force keep a person within the bounds of justice, they impose nothing but a mere negation.

In 1890 a famous English Catholic, Cardinal Manning, said the Holy See's diplomatic activities were "a mere pageant" , a medieval relic.

The mere mention of my name is enough to scare off any brave man of the world.

In vain they rush frantically round from place to place, trying to escape from avenging boredom by mere clatter and motion.

As you continue to meditate on compassion , when you see someone suffer , your first response becomes not mere pity but deep compassion .

Their demand for mere food than their share was turned down in the light of precedents.

The mere reminder that the day will come when governments do not make life easy was enough to scare markets.

However, some would argue that the mere existence of the aristocracy, by constraining movement between the classes, carries its own costs.

It feels as though at least half the problems are being solved by mere resolve.

In contradistinction to mere skepticism, however, philosophy does not remain content with the purely negative result of Dialectic.

Do not settle for mere form when what your soul craves is to "see" Jesus.

After all, that's what policy makers did in 1931, and the resulting banking crisis turned a mere recession into the Great Depression.

The two shoulder between them a mere two rucksacks, plus a brace of day sacks which a guide transports separately on a motorbike.

It is sort of a cultural pastime that goes beyond mere homemaking instruction.

To be objective, it is unrealistic to expect that Singapore can blossom into a cultured nation within a mere generation.

All that will not bear to be tested is mere carnal confidence.

It was eminently practical reasons, and not the mere caperings of a hobby-horse, that prompted me to undertake my historical researches.

She slept lightly and uneasily, the sleep of a bird; a mere nothing waked her. She opened her eyes.

A mere interjection, comment, the slightest question will catapult such a person into a talking fit.

For many a year mere mention of the term Bric has been guaranteed to set South African officials' teeth grinding.

And there was the body--mere flesh and blood, no more--but such flesh, and so much blood!

The historical conditions of its existence are by no means given with the mere circulation of money and commodities.

I should like to see you under that southern sun, lying among the flowers, subdued into mere enjoyment.

The mere Witness, not identified with it, not attached to it, utterly Free of it.

These bring Happiness and the experiences of joy; not mere pleasure, not gratification of any of the material things.

The monk was surprised to see a heavenly being showing such respect to a mere mortal, and asked the reason.

That's not mere insult either, but rather what I think is seriously happening with his head.

It were mere blasphemy not to believe that your miraculous bull means everything that any man in Florence likes it to mean.

s your wife. You insult her intelligence if you assume that a mere slogan and a few vapid adjectives will persuade her to buy anything.

This is all just "the world. " Even the mere arising of a thought of fearing death or pain is the world.

On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere titter is sufficient to send us into corners.

At the mere thought of it, his heart began to beat fiercely.

Mere cooks might roll up to a holiday dinner with a towel-wrapped butcher's knife.

It will be a mere, if classic, safe-haven bet, but no doubt gold bugs of all stripes will continue to present it in many other ways.

However, he is troubled that much of the drop in mortality recorded is the result of changes in the figures for a mere half-dozen countries.

But that does not mean that individuality should be destroyed and the individual become a mere tool of the community, like a bee or an ant.

The book was, to all intents and purposes, a mere duplication of her earlier efforts.

It seems to be the mere rarity that attracts the average collector.

The mere existence of a cloud does not of course ensure that rain will be produced during the lifetime of the cloud.

The Buddha's teaching shows a unique path of enlightenment, and is not a subject to be studied from a mere academic standpoint.

if that will be your married look , i , as a christian , will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander.

At the mere thought of it my heart began to beat fiercely.

The main character played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek, staying just out of reach of mere mortals "cursed" with a visible nature.

The mere act of traversing your daily routine places you evenly on a fine line between absolute triumph and utter defeat.

from that period , for several months , she ceased to hold any communication with me , save in the relation of a mere servant.

The plotting to which they are linked is not mere chatter. Members of Zarqawi's network say their goal was to kill Russians with toxins.

In psychological studies of why people donate to charity, the mere mention of money makes people less likely to help.

The actual plan of a city is never a mere artifact, it is always quite as much a product of nature as of design.

Clearly, the mere existence of vertical and horizontal cluster dimensions is not enough to generate knowledge and growth.

The Chicxulub crater, as it is known, may have been a mere aperitif.

Although the person is not short, the word says A (have 170) , also not be a mere skeleton type, but be bosom, compare small.

the mere sight of him is overpowering.

We had such a fat boy at school: His cheeks were so adipose that his eyes had become mere slits.

In my experience, such episodes are often not mere forecasts of future business activity, but a key cause of it.

More qualitative assessment training, and do not facilitate assessment, training effectiveness evaluation mere formality.

Even when supplies to the overall budget cost the company more than mere 3 percent, are still going to be to cut costs.

For nicotine, that level was a mere 1. 8 nanograms per milliliter -- too low to be picked up in tests.

Each of these accomplishments will lift your mood, as will the mere fact that you've tackled and achieved some concrete goals.

Yet to be well informed about thought, even as a mere activity of the subject-mind, is honorable and interesting for man.

His superior officers dismissed the war against the Separatists as a mere "brush fire" that the clones alone would easily handle.

"A mere seven years after my graduation day, " she said, "I had failed on an epic scale. "

When atoms were first proved to exist (and that was a mere century ago), they were thought to be made only of electrons and protons.

Still, they amounted to a mere handful, just one out of every 5, 000 students.

Facebook is so eager to protect copyright that the mere accusation of copyright infringement is enough to get an account locked.

"not to mention" Law: Some things, the mere mention, if it is a good thing, certainly miss; if it is a bad thing, inevitable.

That's not bad; in fact, it's much better than it used to be (in 1980 a mere 7% of kids did that much work at home each week).

Conscience is an instinct to judge ourselves in the light of moral laws. It is not a mere faculty; it is a instinct. -Immanuel Kant.

Certainly, coping with a mere 8 per cent growth rate counts as one of those "nice problems to have" .

By much trampling, we had made it a mere quagmire.

Soon, twenty two thousand men left leaving me with a mere ten thousand.

Quite often other attempts at such atonement are often mere words like the ubiquitous "sorry, " which means nothing.

The party was so far away that the men appeared as mere dots, but unhesitatingly the recruit replied: "Sexteen men and a sergeant, sir. "

Subnormal mentality or mere weakness of intellect, ignorance, or deficiency in a mental function is not a defense to a criminal charge.

But it would be a mistake to think of James as a mere number cruncher.

Global economic growth is now projected to fall to a mere ? per cent this year, its lowest rate since the second world war.

So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment?

The court also noted that the mere presence of such an ingredient was not sufficient to render the food illegal.

I was never sure that I had the right to hear , so exclusive were they of all mere custom and company.

All of the events on the second day of the Olympics leading up to the record-shattering showdown were a mere opening act.

There was hardly a mere trace of smile on her face when she was told the news.

Of course I want it to work because the plant costs a mere dollar but I'm a bit skeptical of a simple plant and its raves in the cyberworld.

When The Theoretician writes code, it is so "elegant" that mere mortals cannot make sense of it.

Instead, the mere fact that last year's crash was possible seems to have had a lingering effect on confidence.

Many feel that a mere donor has no meaningful connection with the child who results.

But the underground is not simply about access, nor is it a mere description of the physical context of the music.

"For the rich the money they spend is mere peanuts, " says Mei Yana, a migrant from rural Henan province working as a restaurant waitress.

In mere moments, a table was presented with a variety of breed images, their origin, weight and height in an astonishingly clean format.

Mill saw that pleasure cannot be reduced to a mere quantitative analysis without taking into account certain qualitative aspects.

What I feel for you is that awesome love that poets write about and that we mere mortals only dream of experiencing.

It has even become a pronoun for the common people, acquiring a more extensive and profound cultural concept from a mere spatial concept.

Obviously the justices did not state their personal preferences, their mere likes and dislikes.

That in itself ought to warn a wise wife against letting it become a mere convenience, like a membership in a good club.

as it turned out , chelsea kept the merseysiders out for a mere three minutes before a long ball was capitalised on by dirk kurt.

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

Such terror of the unseen is so far above mere sensual cowardice that it will annihilate that cowardice.

Keeping in mind for whom it was designed, expect the price tag to be out of reach for mere mortals.

Whether or not a dry spell is a mere speed bump or a brick wall is determined by your own perception of it.

Out of this sum, however, it has allocated a mere US$1. 5 million over the five years for GM risk evaluation and public engagement.

This will bring the city huge traffic pressures that cannot be alleviated through the mere expansion and building of new roads.

Mere rocks, places which "cannot sustain human habitation or economic life of their own" , have no such privilege.

They wondered in particular if the mere presence of a canine in the office might make people collaborate more effectively.

And, to conclude the matter, what is even an eternal remembrance? A mere nothing.

"As if the mere 'differently' didn't account for it! " the wooer insisted.

Some of this intransigence is mere posturing, with both sides attempting to size one another up after the mid-terms.

For Mr. Fu is no mere peddler of corrupt ideals, with a dystopic solution to a serious problem.

None of these honours can be a mere coincidence.

It can be used as a pause or a colon: very handy for spinning out a mere anecdote into a playlet that's full of parody and speculation.

I had not yet joined the throng of travellers on the path of Life, but was a mere spectator from my roadside window.

their trousers were mere bags , frayed at the bottom and wobbling over big , soppy shoes , torn at the sides and worn almost to shreds.

The new results negate that assumption - the mere presence of oxygen in an atmosphere is now not enough evidence to start looking for life.

It wasn't like this when I was a kid, and I was born back when feminism was still a mere twinkle in our mothers' eyes.

It was realized that mere abreaction cannot possibly lead to the goal, since the majority of neuroses are not traumatic at all.

Through suppression of desire, through mere control of the mind, through denial of his bodily needs, the ascetic makes himself insensitive.

But I was a mere lad of six-teen; I've aged a year since then.

The mere fact that Wall Street poses less of an immediate threat to the rest of us doesn't mean it has permanently mended its ways.