Democracy is increasingly seen as a mere ritual.

The rule of law as a mere concept is not enough.

The problem should not be dismissed as a mere settling of old scores.

ODA should not be seen as a mere handout, but as a means of improving the labour market.

I'm a mere tourist.

Skeptics who treat the term public diplomacy as a mere euphemism for propaganda miss the point.

It is more than a mere concern.

Women are excluded from collective decision making, as they are mere objects.

BERLIN Great speeches are all too often underestimated as being mere words.

Concerning the guarantees, and as a mere example, we shall cite its clarity by mentioning the following articles

The story would ordinarily be a mere curiosity.

These are only words from a mere mortal .

As always where the Party is concerned, Chinese law is mere window dressing.

Some in the P3 and elsewhere will see all of this as a mere spoiling operation with a more sophisticated face.

Obama is neither a socialist, nor a mere political accountant.

The delay was not justified by any compelling reasons the mere financial burden on a State did not suffice as a justification.

Unless we thoroughly reform the working methods of the Security Council, we will not be carrying out Council reform but a mere expansion, a mere adjustment.

Private investors appear to understand this, as such investment in Venezuela grew by a mere 3 between 2000 and 2004.

Girls are forced into prostitution at a mere 5 a session.

The group of four has introduced a historic draft resolution that seeks to reform the Security Council in such a manner and through such a process as to revitalize the General Assembly through praxis and not mere promises, and through action and not mere aspiration.

Identity is not a matter of mere ethnicity or religion.

Laughing Gas ( waatho) Ajmal Kasab was a mere foot soldier.

this is nothing but the word of a mere mortal !

Created man , out of a ( mere ) clot of congealed blood

Ours is not a statement of rhetoric or mere protocol.

The draft resolution was baseless and a mere political device.

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

Most people know her as the Director of the Orangi Pilot Project but she was more than a mere NGO Director.

The elimination of corrupt practices therefore goes beyond a mere moral campaign or sloganeering, as is the case with some Governments.

A board sounds more impressive, authoritative, and permanent than a mere forum.

and a mere mortal like us . We think you are a liar .

To dismiss Medvedev as a mere Putin puppet, a constitutional bridge between Putin s second and third presidential terms, would be both unfair and wrong.

As a family agriculture and the small production worker, the woman is usually seen as a helping hand and her tasks are considered as a mere extension of the domestic work under her responsibility.

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

It was to be hoped that any judgements given would be seen as an act of justice, not just a mere procedure.

Sometimes the stories are mere fabrications to validate market optimism, as with the 1990 s boom.

But this still translates into a mere drop in the ocean.

It must never become a mere ornament on the international scene.

on the mere basis that the latter is also a lawyer.

But this is mere suggestion.

Its mere presence incites violence.

This is no mere prediction.

This was no mere gesture.

Even without stimulation, mere recording devices such as brain controlled motor prostheses may alter the patient s personality.

Chad will see a mere 62 million, and Cameroon just 18.6 million.