Sentence examples for abandoned merely from inspiring English sources

I do not ask that all talk of a fresh start should be abandoned – merely that those who have been involved in the centre over the years should have some input; in particular, the cultural and business groups, students, high commissions and representatives of African countries who have a stake in the Africa Centre's future.

The motion would stop short of demanding Ms Mills appointment be abandoned, merely insisting there should be a confirmation hearing.

They argued that Americans, even those of modest means, were abandoning merely adequate products for luxurious ones.

Governments are unlikely to abandon biofuels merely because they are inefficient and damaging.

Mr. Betts shrugs off the notion of abandoning plans merely because the economy is weak.

And his wife was not willing to abandon him merely because he now "confessed" to being Piers Osbeck (or Pierquin Wesbecque or Perkin Warbeck) of Tournai.

But they are storehouses now, or woodsheds, or merely abandoned, their rafters caving in.

The call came only two weeks after the previous regular meeting, on December 19th, when the Fed decided to leave rates unchanged and merely abandoned its "bias towards tightening".

His "Untitled (Peter Beard profile with Tarot Card, Cornell Bunnies, and Buddha)," carries a funny date — 1976-1987-88-89-90 — that conjures the adage that a work of art is never completed, merely abandoned.

The seizing of abandoned buildings is merely the most visible manifestation of the increasingly desperate housing situation here in the Southern Hemisphere's largest city.

Americans have not merely abandoned the war; they don't want to hear anything that might remind them of it, or of war in general.