Sentence examples for because it is merely from inspiring English sources

Yet because it is merely television, and not the sacred Internet, nobody seems to view this practice as a crime against humanity.

Not because the polls suggest she will trounce him in November, but rather because it is merely a figure of speech.

It is unsurprising because it is merely the next step on the damaging trajectory of education being viewed as a glorified form of job training.

Some conservative elements within the Church have disputed that Nostra Aetate is binding because it is "merely" a decree, not a constitution or a declaration.

Jean-Claude Piris, the director-general of the Council of the European Union's Legal Service, argues that notification is revocable because it is merely an expression of intent to leave.

This copy of a telegram is undoubtedly the only one made, certainly the only one sent to Stanton, the Secretary of War, because it is merely a copy of another telegram sent by Gen'l Grant.

Indeed, the New York Times originally declined to review it because it was merely a 'regional' book.

In Saudi Arabia, she relied on clandestine operators to speed the process in return for SR40,000 (about ₤7000) – but that didn't work, because it was merely an attempt to profit from her misery.

The plot is an irrelevance – if you must know, there's a virus that takes hold of a plane full of passengers – because it's merely a peg to hang hundreds and hundreds of jokes on.

The latest setback for the organisations was a supreme court verdict this month that ruled it was not illegal for a mining company to not pay for extracting groundwater on land it had been granted under concession because it was merely "exploring" for minerals in the water, rather than "exploiting" the water.

Of the 230,733 posts with identifiable location, Canberra, Sydney, and Hobart were the top-tweeting capital cities. (According to Max Kelsen's figures, those posting about the spill were also 11 times more likely to read the Guardian than the average Australian Twitter user. It was on!) (Then there's a @BBCBreaking one at No 3, which we'll leave out because it's merely functional).