Sentence examples for conducted merely from inspiring English sources

Through some initial blunders we learned the second rule: The research should not be conducted merely because I find it intellectually interesting.

In our opinion, the prospective study that is ultimately needed would not have been approved without this retrospective observational study because the effort and potential damage from examinations conducted merely for the purpose of the study could not have been justified based only on a theoretical benefit for patients.

"Conduct merely affording a person an opportunity to commit an offense does not constitute entrapment," the law states.

"It is not, in the government's view, the role of the state to ban conduct merely because it might hurt the feelings of others.

How can one tell whether an ape has changed the course of his conduct merely because of someone else's grunt or because of a certain mental state in that same individual?

In dealing with feudal lords, Mencius conducted himself not merely as a political adviser but also as a teacher of kings.

Volta felt that the frog merely conducted a current that flowed between the two metals, which he called "metallic electricity".

In many Polynesian societies, the chief was the person of highest status, yet he was often regarded by his people and generally conducted himself as merely "first among equals".

The Fed and the European Central Bank did not put their own money to work, analysts said; they merely conducted transactions on behalf of the Bank of Japan, which has "been intervening on its own with very little success," said Rebecca Patterson of J. P. Morgan Chase.

Thus, had we merely conducted simple tests of statistical significance, we could correctly have said that the results were not statistically significant in most cases; given the number of simultaneous tests that we had conducted, the few significant exceptions could be discounted.

The therapists' groups said that when insurers have conducted audits, they have merely attempted to make sure the sessions actually occurred and that the treatment was not inappropriate.