a mere

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

"That I should have been blinded, " said Quilp, looking contemptuously at him, "by a mere shallow gambler! "

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. . .

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

When I proclaimed that I would attempt to survive the month of February on a mere $79, I felt pretty confident I could do just that.

The size of the North Polar Ice Cap in the month of September is only half the size it was a mere 50 years ago.

As it is prosperous , the real estate unavoidably goes into a mere repetition similar to other industries, due to the lack of innovation.

Some have been a fixture there for years. And they are deeply disinclined to vacate for a mere royal wedding.

There was a bench there, a mere trestle of stone slabs, but how had he known he would find it at just that spot?

Because it has no existence for starting-point and point d'appui, the Idea is frequently treated as a mere logical form.

"If I knew that, I wouldn't be a mere economic journalist, " his father said.

From this distance, oceans, land, clouds, and ice blend into a blur of light, a mere dot against the vastness of space.

Who would not, for a mere few thousand dollars, want to protect their child from some future catastrophe with such "biological insurance" ?

It is, therefore, not the satisfaction of a need but a mere means to satisfy needs outside itself.

a mere century ago, when atom was proved to be exist, scientists thought that the atom was made of only electrons and protons.

Each day as more of us , disappear, the happy past seems like a mere dream, and I sink deeper and deeper into despair.

Don't mention it. A mere trifle. It happens .

YOU could be forgiven for thinking the proposed overhaul of the National Health Service (NHS) a mere bagatelle.

It may be a mere coincidence that Smith's great book was published the exact same year that the Declaration of Independence was signed.

The drenching took a mere one hour to accomplish and then it was time again for that long trip home.

Another potential money-spinner is a "smart" system that lets users make small purchases with a mere wave of a card.

For United travelling away, there is always a hard core following that represents a mere fraction of those who would like to watch the team.

Although Mr Medvedev's article was dismissed by critics as a mere simulation of action, it inspired lively debate among the elite.

Only in this way can we reduce costs , and the Test of Spoken English will not turn out to be a mere formality.

Apollo gave him all his love, forgetting he was a mere mortal.

At the beginning of the year analysts boosted their profit forecasts 18% more than they cut them; now the figure is a mere 1%.

All this scandalous talk goes upon a mere supposition.

The BEST part of this hotel was its proximity to the fabulous beach, a mere 30 seconds away so made full use of that convenience!

The Bank of New York China ADR index is up a mere 77 per cent since the beginning of last year.

Glancing at his map, he informed us that the next village was a mere twenty miles away.

I hear the news of his arrival, but it turn out to is a mere hoax.

In the logic of understanding, the notion is generally reckoned a mere form of thought, and treated as a general conception.

It had 663m registered users last December and made $860m in revenue in 2010, implying revenue per user of a mere $1. 30.

At the end, there was a beautiful palace all of gold and ivory and jewels, something far too beautiful for a mere mortal.

He had lost his reputation as a strong man, having been defeated twice by a mere boy.

Now don't be angry at my asking all these questions; because I am a mere dull man of business, and you are a woman of business. '

Easy in assembly, involves a mere couple of components per valve (actually one and a "half" ), plus a control shaft per row of valves.

GM wants holders of just over $27 billion in unsecured debt to swap it for a mere 10% of shares in the company.

In contrast, football players are given a mere yellow card (which does not automatically mean leaving play) for a first offence.

A mere tendency to produce a rudiment is indeed sometimes thus inherited.

For years, critics whispered that Justice Thomas was a mere clone of Justice Antonin Scalia, and that he could not think for himself.

Without controlling a substantial European business, GM would be relegated to a mere regional auto player.

Google still thinks it can get regulators to see it as it sees itself: not as a mere company but as a force for good.

Less than half had ratified the Rome Convention, and a mere 28 Member States had ratified the Brussels Satellite Convention.

have opponents consider: theme-based activities become a mere formality, the lack of internal links and waste hours, opposed to it.

Perhaps most importantly, the vote shows that Venezuelan democracy has not been reduced to a mere fa? ade.

Far from being a mere parlor game, the Turing Test is an important measure of just how far one aspect of Artificial Intelligence has come.

A mere century ago, it seems as if returning to the Stone Age.

But Berkshire is, of course, no ordinary conglomerate, so a mere 18 per cent premium to book is among the cheapest entry-points in decades.

He added, though, that S&P's move is a mere 'gesture' and predicted that it won't actually downgrade the U. S. sovereign rating.

Birth to the present, she is always doing in the pursuit of the Phoenix, even if it is a mere copycat of the Phoenix.

With a mere tilt of his gun, he quickly dissuades anyone tempted to draw nearer to the base.

IT TOOK President Goodluck Jonathan a mere decade to go from lowly official to undisputed leader of his country.

The notion that dangerous climate change can be averted for a mere 1% of global GDP depends on policy being efficient.

Or is it a mere shift in perspective from which our observation of and research on contemporary art are conducted?

But together they owned a mere 1. 2 percent of the company, a pittance given the size of those investment companies.

This King of Rock and Roll was a mere shadow of his former self when he died in 1977 after a drug overdose.

This shift from a reformist middle class to a reactionary one over a mere two decades should be surprising.

In fact, said to him, more like 1000, 10000 Sorry, but an injured heart is how can a mere apology will be able to make up for it?

It is just us the Homo sapiens, gifted with a mind capable of stimulating our entire biology with a mere sight of intimacy.

Moreover, the beam is so tightly focused that equipment a mere dozen metres away from its line would struggle to detect it.

the Tribunal stage of the debate must not become a mere formality, it is necessary to seize the public prosecutor inconsistencies.

The administration of the Chinese telegraph system is frequently a mere travesty of what it might be and ought to be.

So I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale.

But Mendel's work received little notice and was cited a mere three times over the next 35 years.

The use of a word or phrase in a sense contrary to its normal meaning for ironic or humorous effect, as in a mere babe of40years.

The use of a word or phrase in a sense contrary to its normal meaning for ironic or humorous effect, as in a mere babe of40 years.

Mark Zuckerberg has never thought of his company as a mere social network.

like what he really is just a mere mass of chemicals.

he had striven to be something more than a mere writer of magazine fiction . he had sought to equip himself with the tools of artistry.

If the behavior is removed from the object and put into a service, the object then becomes a mere holder for data.

I had known her for years, watched her raise countless apprentices, and now she was a mere puppet for some demon.

Wanted, a lawyer, who has not become the victim of his specialty, a mere walking bundle of precedents.

It seems easy to claim that A$13-a-share is inadequate, given that it is a mere 8 per cent improvement on Tuesday's closing price.

We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live.

Mr. Chen said he lost roughly $6, 000 in cash and other belongings in the accident. The railways ministry paid him a mere $35.

Any assistance that this Government may render in the future should provide a cure rather than a mere palliative.

The Varyag was bought for a mere snip, $20m, by a travel agency claiming they would use it as a casino off Macau.

he jokes, picking out a fleecy top to counter Nairobi's morning chill for a mere 200 shillings at the Gikomba street market.

This elusive, almost invisible quality was more than a mere habit.

India still lags behind China in total subscribers, with a mere 136m (up from 75m a year ago), compared with China's 449m.

It is a mere shadow because despite retaining the civilised ways of the Roman legacy, the Byzantines have done little to further it.

Poles find the wording infuriating: the Hitler-Stalin carve-up of eastern Europe was a crime, not a mere historical backdrop.

But really, once you've spent thousands to get you and your family atop that mountain, lunch is a mere rounding error.

Remarkably, none of these companies even existed a mere thirty years ago.

Writing plainly does not mean that letters must be confined to a mere recital of facts, in a style that is dull and unattractive.

While no commentator suggests that Ping behaved appropriately, many see him as a mere scapegoat.

The recovery period from the surgery to remove it was supposed to be a mere seven weeks.

If life is likened to coffee, then job, money and social status can be compared to a cup, a mere container that holds life.

She was a mere slip of a girl. Could she do that?

A mere 5 per cent of the global population speak the rest and two thirds of these lingoes are in danger of extinction.

eg. The stupid fellow never realized that he was a mere cat's paw in the hands of his enemy.

It was evident that he had learned from Whitman but he was not a mere echo of Whitman despite the similarity of outlook.

Tetsuo was guilty only of aiding suicide and sentenced to a mere six and a half years in prison.

Yet a mere two years later, we find ourselves back in the fray once again.

Webcam resolution is scaled down to 0. 3 megapixels, and a mere two USB ports are located on opposite sides of the system.

Located a "mere" 300 million light-years away, these colliding galaxies nicknamed The Mice will eventually merge into a single giant galaxy.

Carbon dioxide is inexplicably a mere trace gas when it should be the bulk of the air, as it is on other planets.

If anyone interrupts your web surfing, you're hard at work with a mere click of your mouse.

Investors remained doubtful that a mere administrative breakup could turn the bank around.

Unlike Grenada and Panama, Iraq had a substantial army that could not be subdued in a mere weekend of fighting.

In 2000, desktop game sales made up 85% of the company's revenue, while "online" sales made up a mere 15%.

Many controls, particularly menus, require the moderately difficult motion of a click-and-drag rather than a mere click.

He remained a mere spectator of the great happenings of His time.

For him the netsuke, so small and captivating, were not enough as a mere signpost to a family history.

They won a mere 16 seats, but have been talking a good game in the run-up to parliament's opening.

Mayo's lawyers say Prometheus has patented a mere observation of the body's natural workings.

But now, at length, even the thought-forms are pronounced anthropomorphic, and thought itself is described as a mere faculty of Unitization.

Many a night have I spent without sleep, not for any particular reason but from a mere desire to do the reverse of the obvious.

This might not matter so much if the senator from Arizona were a mere Bush clone.

Even in more normal times $50bn represents a mere two or three days' business.

No one is going to allow a mere head cold or mild bout of flu to stop them getting on with their work.

Independent India, a mere fifty years plus, has striven hard to re-establish some of the links to the traditional past.

Shaw nailed the throttle at the last moment, passing Hepburn and winning the race by a mere two seconds.

The question is worth asking even though the alliance is made of stronger stuff than a mere political party, however enduring.

These motifs are employed by the artist to create a further interpretation of his work, beyond a mere satirical reading.

Due process in a democracy must be more than a mere phrase if the rights of the people are to be protected.

But he thought, "It is too royal a wine for a mere princeling. "

The six-stroke character xing (running), for instance, was reduced to a mere two vertical strokes in medieval calligraphic practice.

Two of the five were a mere fifty yards apart, where the dirt road jogged because of a discrepancy between two colliding surveys.

Over the past few years they have seen their advantage in the state House of Representatives dwindle to a mere two votes, out of 150.

The physical medium is reduced to a mere means of personal contact.

Measured on a trade-weighted basis, it has fallen by a mere 0. 04% since the recent financial turbulence began on February 27th.

Sixty years ago, Europe was a mere Bilderbaby, conceived in a solemn ceremony on Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands' mattress.

Hazael said, 'How could your servant, a mere dog, accomplish such a feat? '

Plastic Logic's prototype reader, which has a screen about the size of a magazine, is a mere 7mm thick and weighs less than 450 grams.

cerberus : you , a mere human , make a mockery of me ?

Marriage has now contracted to a mere legal contract; there's no place for love or value in it any more.

Forty-three years seems like a long time to remember the name of a mere acquaintance.

I feel a mere explosion which topples others is not quite the best way to show the death of a unique monster.

Harry Truman's Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, decided Chinese Communists had become a mere satrap of Stalin.

A non-socialman, like the state of nature, is a mere "philosophical fiction. "