"mere" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- All this points to an association with Henslowe of some duration, as no mere tyro would be thus paid in advance upon mere promise.
- If mere promises to pay were considered cash equivalents, then there would be little difference between the cash and accrual methods for tax purposes.
- And a mere promise to provide a benefit, she warns, "is not something that the student can enforce in court."
- Such assurance, a third official said, should involve practical steps to constrain the nuclear-weapons program and should not be mere promises.
- No doubt some of it was truth, though he could not imagine a mere promise binding the vainglorious metallics for long.
- The tone was more than a mere promise to settle a personal score.
- It's generally accepted that we have entered an era where the "mere promise" of a piece of advertising is no longer enough.
- He further criticised the additional jobs offered as mere "promises."
- We cannot, though, be satisfied with mere promises.
- But the mere promise of it has already proved an enticement, particularly for those in states like Massachusetts, where restrictions are being debated.
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