The phrase "aim is merely" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the purpose or intention of something, often to downplay its significance.
Example: "While some may see this project as groundbreaking, my aim is merely to improve existing processes."
Alternatives: "goal is simply" or "objective is just".
The government asserts that its aim is merely to give consumers and personal computer makers more choice.
However, chief executive Peter Dawson told The Observer that their aim is merely to 'keep the prize fund competitive.
Iain Duncan Smith, the welfare secretary, has conceded that the aim is merely to manage the rate of increase.On your bikeFinally, many of the more wide-ranging reforms may unravel.
Inexorable economic and social forces will gradually impose their alterations, and the bureaucracy and political system will adapt: they will have to, even if the aim is merely to keep everything the same.
If the aim is merely to provide information and explanation, then it is up against Edward Luce's In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, which combined a keen grasp of economics with the advantage of timeliness: it came out in 2006, exactly when a book on the new India was needed.
Those forswearing the bomb did so, America will be reminded next week, on the understanding that the nuclear powers would reduce their reliance on such weapons too.Mr Bush's officials have long claimed that their aim is merely to give the president more military options in a tight spot.
At first the aim was merely to raise the house site.
The paper's aim was merely to smooth out irregularities in existing legislation.
EUFOR was a "ramshackle" enterprise whose main aim was merely "flying the EU flag .It all sounds rather familiar.
They could only be called successful, however, if their author's aim was merely to intrigue, and it is impossible to believe that Carter is that crude.
The opposing lawyers had presented no argument why their client "should be treated differently to anybody else," he added, and their real aim was merely to delay things.
