Sentence examples for but rather merely from inspiring English sources

The defendants' lawyer had argued that the men's conduct toward their domestic partners was not intentional but rather merely "reckless".

Forced labour differs from slavery in that it involves not the ownership of one person by another but rather merely the forced exploitation of that person's labour.

A bit of poetic license; he was not referring to hiding sales tax, but rather merely confusing, for example, which lumber was for which project.

So, he said, what was happening in the early years of Putin's presidency - when former oligarchs and clans were moved out of lucrative businesses, and new owners and structures replaced them - wasn't about developing and growing the pie, but rather, merely a case of redistributing what was already there.

Two questions were "reality" questions that did not require inferences about mental states but rather merely the detection of facts from the story that were visually comprehendible.

Metaphysics is thus not the study of something apart from experience, but rather merely of the limits (Ideas) of experience itself".

They are rather merely different in terms of negating the oneness.

Who trained Rey to fight with a staff as effectively as she does, given that (a) she is an orphan with no friends or family, and (b) she has never been in a battle, but is, rather, merely a scrap-metal scavenger?

The discrepancy of these findings may be elucidated by the diverse molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis in tumors, rather merely by the different genetic background.

But rather than merely paying homage to the birthday boys, the pianist Ian Hobson is offering a series of 10 recitals at the Dicapo Opera Theater featuring works by the two composers in the framework of their musical influences and legacy.

In my reading of Ms. Heller's review, she didn't seem to question Mr. Rushdie's importance but rather seemed merely to find piquancy in the fact that he never questioned it either.