Sentence examples for are used merely from inspiring English sources
Too often, indicators (eg on total water use) are limited, and are used merely in a tick box fashion.
When numbers are used merely to identify individuals or classes (as on the backs of athletes on a football team), they constitute a nominal scale.
The latter can be avoided so long as these focii imaginarii are used merely regulatively, such as by facilitating scientific inquiry through their setting out various desiderata.
Freedom is used merely as a bargaining chip.
When informed that it was used merely for trysts, he arched his eyebrows in rascally fashion.
But prosecutors said bounty hunting was used merely as a ruse to ransack Mr. Foote's house.
If it is used merely to teach students how to mimic middle-class behaviors, then some of the criticism may be justified.
Moreover, safety Shaun Williams, the other Giants' first-round pick (1998) during Fassel's reign, has been used merely as a part-time nickel back.
North Alabama is not a novelty item, something to be used merely as a steppingstone back to the game's highest reaches.
Common sense points to much of this, but what's needed is rigorous research to prevent children's health being used merely to promote individual political platforms.
He probably understood far earlier than Gorbachev that perestroika, once unleashed, could not be used merely to dabble with reform of the communist system.
