Sentence examples similar to constituting merely from inspiring English sources

That's why this constitutes merely a morsel of good news, but we'll take it.

Defining what constitutes merely a jest and what is of a "menacing character" has not been easy for the judges.

By the end of the 16th century, however, these territories constituted merely one of a number of petty Italian states.

Statutes of this type have been consistently sustained on the theory that they constitute merely a stipulation of qualifications or disqualifications for public employment.

An illegal gratuity, on the other hand, may constitute merely a reward for some future act that the public official will take (and may already have determined to take), or for a past act that he has already taken.

While there is no agreed-upon definition of what constitutes a "mass shooting" and what constitutes merely another deadly entry on the police blotter, there is little doubt that the frequency of large-scale gun atrocities has increased in the past decade.

(Mipham Rinpoche 1993c: 3, 1977: 80–81993d1993d: 543–544) The second premise comes from its representationalist or elaboration-theory which says that conventional truths constitute merely mental elaborations (spros pa) represented to appear (rnam par snang ba) in the minds of the ordinary beings as if they are realities having the subject-object relation.

True, all of these faux pas constitute merely symbolic actions.

The worrying truth is that the tweets tagged #WhyIStayed constitute merely a microcosm of the global pandemic that is gender-based violence.

It does not constitute merely the enunciation of an ideal, but stands inseparably associated with an institution adequate to embody its truth, demonstrate its validity, and perpetuate its influence.

Therefore many prophages found in the meningococcal genomes such as the abundant Mu-like prophages might constitute merely parasitic DNA.