Sentence examples for acted merely from inspiring English sources

Tommy Davis says that these projects were done by contractors, and that Brousseau acted merely as an adviser.

She said she had had just a modest interest in politics, rejected the group's violent agenda, and had acted merely out of fear that, if her friends were caught, the police might kill them.

Calhoun (1995, 244) notes that '… insofar as we imagine that Gauguin, in pursuing 'what he found his life bound up with', acted merely on a psychologically deep impulse without critically reflecting on the value of doing so, we may suspect him of not acting with integrity'.

Until then, Snow and many others had believed that carbonic acid acted merely by excluding oxygen.

With the breakdown of the land allocation system after 755, the central Chinese state barely interfered in agricultural management and acted merely as tax collector for roughly a millennium, save a few instances such as the Song's failed land nationalization during the 13th-century war with the Mongols.

It acts merely as a holding chamber and therefore is not a true stomach.

Why artificially preserve "bookmakers" who act merely as brokers between on-course punters and exchanges?

But such experts act merely as agents carrying out the client's bidding.

Under its provisions, the home secretary will act merely on suspicion and belief.

But Senate Democrats will let down those who sent them to Washington if they act merely as a passive firewall.

They may not be democrats, but they will not likely wish to act merely as bodyguards for a despot.