Sentence examples for Merely uttering from inspiring English sources

Merely uttering the threat appeared to be part of an Iranian effort to demonstrate its ability to cause a spike in oil prices, thus slowing the United States economy, and to warn American trading partners that joining the new sanctions, which the Senate passed by a rare 100-0 vote, would come at a high cost.

The president was merely uttering an idiomatic version of the kind of thing you hear from survivors whenever a disaster strikes: "God must have been watching out for me; it's a miracle I survived," whereby those who died were presumably not being "watched out for".

For years you could start a fight in Barolo merely by uttering a word like barrique, the widely used French term for the small oak barrels adopted by the modernists, or botti, the big traditional barrels that were branded by some as the source of unclean wines.

Fat, badly dressed, shy, awkward – not even actually in a room with a man at all – there is nothing that can be so "wrong" with a woman that she can't have sex any time she wants, merely by uttering this infallible, magic spell to a man: "Would you like to have some sex with me?" And this is one of the things I like about men: they're uncomplicated.

The egregious practice that some Muslim men employ to divorce their wives instantaneously and without their consent, merely by uttering the word talaq (divorce) three times, has finally been declared unconstitutional and illegal by the Indian Supreme Court.

HCWs' complaints about lack of time were described as merely 'phrases' uttered with no basis in reality.

He said: "Let us hope that this time the view at the top of government has moved on from uttering merely macho statements to a programme of action that has been missing for over a decade".

The point is that he does not merely wish for suicide, but utter self-annihilation.

If our aim were merely to utter truths, we should be willing to assert the proposition.

Only utter defeat.

Hilton's twist on the walk-off was not over the top: she merely looked away, scoffing and getting up without uttering any words.