These things are mere abstractions.

These kids are not mere statistics.

Computers can be thought of as mere calculating machines.

The changes suggested for this paragraph are merely technical updates .

In Brazil, a common saying is that prisons are merely crime schools .

Its people were first treated by the slave trade as mere commodities, necessary for economic growth elsewhere.

A Diversity Charter, launched in 2006 and originally endorsed by a mere four companies, now has more than 1,500 corporate signatories.

In 1613, he composed the Kuge Shohatto , a document which put the court daimyo under strict supervision, leaving them as mere ceremonial figureheads.

And that showed me such a fundamental truth, that music making and other forms of creativity can so often go to places where mere words cannot.

His Proun works (known as Prounen ) spanned over a half a decade and evolved from straightforward paintings and lithographs into fully three dimensional installations.

Although these are usually regarded as merely phonetic marks or diacritics, they do sometimes appear on their own, such as at the end of sentences, in exclamations, or in some names.

Although the movements of peoples during this period are usually described as invasions , they were not just military expeditions but migrations of entire peoples into the empire.

For many years, the story told about Pacific Islanders is one that portrayed them as mere victims, a far away people who cannot do anything about the causes or realities of climate change.

Civilizations generally declined and fell, according to Toynbee, because of the failure of a creative minority , through moral or religious decline, to meet some important challenge, rather than mere economic or environmental causes.

Multiserialis with long bracts), but genetic evidence does not support this division, pointing instead to a genetic divide between Old World and New World species, with the cone and bract size being merely adaptations to climatic conditions.

Asteroid strikes get all the coverage, but Medea Hypothesis author Peter Ward argues that most of Earth's mass extinctions were caused by lowly bacteria. The culprit, a poison called hydrogen sulfide, may have an interesting application in medicine.

Although proponents claim that the law will be discussed with the people, it is official practice for these kinds of discussions to be treated as mere formalities, conducted with organised groups supportive of the government.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky mentions the poem in Notes from Underground when the narrator states, I received countless millions and immediately gave them away for the benefit of humanity, at the same moment confessing before the crowd all my infamies, which, of course, were not mere infamies, but also contained within them a wealth of 'the lofty and the beautiful' of something Manfred like (Dostoyevsky, page 57.

Although in the morning following his wedding, Arthur had claimed that he was thirsty for I have been in the midst of Spain last night and that having a wife is a good pastime , these claims are generally dismissed by modern historians as mere boasts of a boy who did not want others to know of his failure, and Catherine maintained the claim that she had married Henry while still a virgin until the day she died.