Sentence examples for because it was merely from inspiring English sources

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 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.

My hunger didn't matter, I was told, because it was merely a means to an end.

They lost in the 10th Circuit Court in Denver, which said the public school program was adequate because it was "merely … more than de minimis," or minimal.

In The Woman with the Whip, the first English language biography of Eva Perón, author Mary Main writes that no account records were kept for the foundation because it was merely a means of funneling government money into private Swiss bank accounts controlled by the Peróns.

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.

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

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.

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

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.