This is the only way we can help develop our political parties into real democratic institutions and not mere associations. (dailypost.ng)
If Harry is somehow guilty by mere association with Rattner (who by the way has not been charged with anything) then so is Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer and the other men whom Rattner counts among his friends. (nystateofpolitics.com)
It has of course been said — as many said of Platonism and later Aristotelianism and more recently existentialism — that because football is not of truly Christian origin it is essentially irredeemable; it could not bear the weight of the gospel; it would by mere association pervert the Good News and make it Bad. (religion-online.org)