Sentence examples for belonged merely from inspiring English sources

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This fascination, however, belonged merely to Tolstoy's genius as a polemicist and public figure; his real fascination lay with the complex and untidy and unpredictable life that lay between the two poles.

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This is because language does not belong merely to those of the same race, but to communities.

One realizes with a slight, shamed start that we would now condescend to this kind of effort as belonging merely to a Y.A., or young-adult, novel.

They satisfy fundamental human desires — not merely to belong but to surpass, to be special, to have power, to be loved — and they do so at a louder volume than does ordinary life.

To say that without the Freedom Center the block would be merely a public cemetery and belong only to the dead is closed-minded.

I'm hoping to find a modicum of a sense of belonging, not merely in adhering to custom without question, but in questioning itself.

But her complaint that the prayer was a personal affront that sent her the message "you don't belong here" merely reflects the wrongheaded psychological turn in current Establishment Clause thinking and misses the real constitutional point.

The legal thinking behind the novel method is that New York's hate crimes statute does not require prosecutors to prove defendants "hate" the group the victim belongs to, merely that they commit the crime because of some belief, correct or not, they hold about the group.

This underlying shared unity indicates that "true numbers [i.e., 2, 3, etc.] are gathered and composed from units" in a way that belongs not merely to the mind or to the physical world (Unde fit ut non sola in mente sufficiat unitas ad numerandum, perinde ac unus palmus ad dimetiendum id quod etiam multorum fuerit palmorum, sed sunt veri numeri ex unitatibus coacervati compositique, 1503a: 27r).

Visitors will be interested to learn from the catalogue that "Creation of the World," which has always been ascribed to Patinir, and "Adam and Eve," which generations of students have been told was by Cranach, are not the real thing but merely belong to the respective schools of those painters.

Political crimes, such as merely belonging to the Farc, will be eligible for amnesty and pardons.

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