It was an excuse for revenge.

She's weak, powerless. A mere human.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The mere thought of her son warmed her heart.

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

Such region wide instability is not just a theoretical scenario it follows from developments on the ground.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Not enough mere will of police officers and prosecutors (2 2) CPICiber

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 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.

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.

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.

Arianism held that Jesus, while not merely mortal, was not eternally divine and was, therefore, of lesser status than the Father.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

While a high crosscountry correlation of confidence measures may merely be a reflection of a high underlying correlation of real business cycles , it may also be the result of spillovers .

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

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 .

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 .

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 .

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.