Sentences with phrase «mere use of the phrase»
Either a person's existence is universally beneficial and desirable, as an anti-euthanasia law indicates, or there are circumstances in which it is harmful and undesirable, as the mere use of the phrase «wrongful life» indicates.
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Our sexual energy then involves not a giving but a taking, even if the taking takes place mutually (a «mutual accommodation of two independent egos,» to use George Sims Johnston's phrase, or «mere simultaneous taking» rather than true mutual giving, to use Cormac Burke's phrase).
Rayner said she was disappointed by the comments, and, borrowing a phrase used by Hinds just yesterday, said the education secretary «seems to need reminding that the mere repetition of a falsehood does not turn it into the truth».
But this idea rests on the presumption that voters are agents, not mere effects of some propaganda machine, some information order that manipulates them: Consent is not manufactured, to use Noam Chomsky's phrase.