Sentence examples for are told merely from inspiring English sources

The work shows, for example, that mental imagery helps eight-year-olds remember what they read, and that students who are asked to create mental images during word memory tasks learn two and a half times as much as those who are told merely to repeat the words they need to remember.

The Obama adviser accused of saying Ms. Palin was doing what she was told merely said that she might have been fed misinformation about Mr. Obama and repeated it.

But Uxbal does not do this, and is told merely to make some kind of spiritual amends to the dead, which is frankly getting off pretty lightly.

If the Principle is correct, then one spatial dimension can, in a sense, be viewed as superfluous: the fundamental physical story of a spatial region is actually a story that can be told merely about the boundary of the region.

I remember watching a blank screen in 1972 when 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Olympic Games and we in Moscow were told merely that there had been a "disturbance" that interfered with the televised coverage.

But, while every pore oozes corruption, our task, we are told, is merely to trim the nails of the body politic.

It places students at companies like United Parcel Service, local museums and even the Central Intelligence Agency (where students are told to say merely that they work for "the government").

At the end of the audience, however, we are told, the chief minister merely laughed at him.

When public school advocates step forward to dispute the false narrative laid out by those who want to privatize our schools, we are told that we are merely protecting our cushy jobs.

As the pain did not recede, the following day he went to St George's Hospital, where he was told he merely had a crick in his neck which would go away.

Truth be told, shielding them merely reduces the range from which they can be read.