Meanings of mere continuation in English

But my rule is not a mere continuation of Corrino rule.

Its first section, the Triassic period, is at first a mere continuation of the Permian.

Does not each individual feel moved to accomplish something beyond the mere continuation of life?

Was this a mere continuation of it?

On the third floor at the rear was a room-a mere continuation of the narrow hall, partitioned off.

His short-cropped hair might have been a mere continuation of the sandy freckles on his forehead and face.

In fact Cervantes had no case, or a very bad one, as far as the mere continuation was concerned.

So it was he arrived at his famous theory-"thatwar is a mere continuation of policy by other means."

If I looked westward, there the ocean lay spread out in all its magnificence, like a mere continuation of those flock-like summits.

A mere continuation of this path could lead to nothing but a loss of all connexion between the plant's superphysical and physical component parts.

This is why the hardline establishment insists on normality and business as usual, and why the mere continuation of protests denies them that particular fiction.