Sentence examples for always merely from inspiring English sources

He always merely wanted to fit in.

Perhaps, yes, but they weren't always merely defending themselves.

In Western music, performance is most commonly viewed as an interpretive art, though it is not always merely that.

It says that then, as now, Johnson has always had a taste for assassination; for trading on reputation – and not always merely his own.

In truth, democratic values were always merely the cover for a hard-nosed desire to confront China's rise in Asia, which is Japan's abiding foreign-policy concern.

Small domestic dogmatists are always merely funny (like Alceste, in "The Misanthrope," or the dad in just about any American sitcom).

It is my belief that the real task of this House is not always to merely condemn, but to actively endeavour to devise strategies for minimising disasters, or averting them completely.

Today, organised crime, like the conventional capitalism of which it has always been merely an unbuttoned caricature, has gone global and become something different.

In Anglo-American Neo-Hegelianism, the Hegelian experience has always been merely an episode which fact serves to refine, by contrast, the methods of experimentalism that are more congenial to the empirical tradition in England.

Of course, the goal of railroad companies has never been annihilation of any kind; it has always been merely to re-organize space, time, and travellers to the advantage of the railway owners.

In all seriousness, I think this is a logical ruling, in the sense that eBay is and has always been merely a facilitator of trade and can hardly be expected to verify the authenticity of each and every product that goes up for sale on its auction website.