Sentence examples for but instead merely from inspiring English sources

That is one lesson from the Orange revolution of 2004 an event that seemed to herald a democratic future, but instead merely reshuffled an entrenched elite.

The BART more closely resembled the task in St Onge and Floresco (2009) in that there was no active punishment but instead merely the loss of reward.

One publisher's agreement may ask you to transfer all of the six exclusive rights you hold, or an agreement might not be asking for a transfer at all, but instead merely license to certain of your rights "bundle" on an exclusive basis.

For the first factor, Oracle argues that Google's adoption of the Java APIs was highly commercial, resulting in "over $42 billion in revenue". Additionally, Android is not transformative it does not add to the Java platform, but instead merely serves as a market replacement.

On a First Amendment challenge to these provisions, the federal district court for the District of Columbia rejected the FDA's argument that these provisions were not a form of speech but instead merely a restraint upon conduct, which it defined as the off-label prescription of drugs.

Thus, according to McTaggart, we never resolve the original contradiction inherent in the A series, but, instead, merely generate an infinite regress of more and more contradictions.

He gambled that he could modernise his party's image by corralling most of them into backing the bill but instead merely revealed its splits and its social conservatism.

It has become convention that judicial appointees pretend they have no personal opinion on any subject, especially emotive ones, but will instead merely apply the law.

This observation has important implications for flotation plant practise; washwater added too early at start-up will not aid gangue rejection but will instead merely lead to a wetter concentrate stream.

Plus there is even some good news: fiscally, this was supposed to have been a disaster, but it is instead merely a budget-pushing headache.

Nearly 50 years ago, when the senator was still at large, the journalist Dwight Macdonald pointed out that "the liberals have never honestly confronted their illusions in the 30's and 40's about Communism but have instead merely counterposed a disingenuous defense, a blanket denial to McCarthy's equally sweeping attack".