He was no mere extension of his parents.

Here, each generation comes into this world as a continuation of the previous ones, each individual a mere extension of the rest.

And because those who see the present as a mere extension of the past usually come a cropper.

"Nobody wants to be out front raising a tax, even though this is a mere extension," one Administration official said on Friday.

He often treated his ministers as mere extensions of his authority rather than colleagues.

Her body became one with the machine, a mere extension of her senses.

All this, I knew, was a mere extension of ordinary physical vision.

Some have suggested that the bridge and the pavilion are mere extensions of Gehry's work in other cities.

Yet a symbol serves not as a mere extension of an original idea but often as its substitute.

Acting came as a mere extension to her dancing abilities, when the world renowned Late.