Sentence examples similar to are merely likely from inspiring English sources
But a reduction on that scale is merely likely to be the first step towards the total elimination of wolves.
Another thing that's impressive about the IPCC report is that there's an elaborate system to provide the probability for each individual finding — some are considered "almost certain" while others are merely "very likely" or "likely"; the evidence on some is considered to provide "high confidence" while others are only "medium" or "low" confidence.
I would like to think that they have at least carefully weighed up party policies and have reached their unfortunate conclusions painfully, but it seems more likely that they are merely attracted by the prospect of low taxes on the types of career they plan to pursue.
Yet it is vital to realise that these assumptions do not represent certainty for a given mechanism, or for toxic activity in the target chemical; they are merely useful indications that this is likely to be the case.
Other notes are as for Table 2. Another trivial explanation of our results might be that subsequences are generated at random within each class and the preferred classes shown in Table 2 are merely those classes which are most likely to generate the motif of the factor.
It's more likely that the snakes are merely symbolic of sin and paganism.
It could even be argued that Beijing is merely hyping the likely effect of a limited sanctions package to convince Seoul that the anti-missile system deployment is unnecessary — and to cast Washington as the real troublemaker.
It would be easy to suspect that the Mayor was merely throwing bones to likely voters.
Vertigo, it seems likely, is merely a reflecting echo of the alcoholic derangement of the central nervous system.
