Sentence examples for contented with merely from inspiring English sources

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Not dissimilar protests have swelled this year in China and Russia, where observers have noted that middle classes once contented with merely private successes have changed their tune.

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While Czech Republic had briefly suggested it could follow Trump's line, it quickly reversed its position, and by last week had contented itself with merely abstaining in a UN general assembly vote that overwhelming criticised Trump's move.

So in 2011 America admitted only 65,668 new permanent residents for hard-nosed economic reasons, a mere 6% of all the green cards handed out.Not content with merely rationing employment-based green cards, the government also makes them expensive and onerous to obtain.

"The Republic of Croatia did not content itself with merely remaining a spectator on the sidelines or even seek simply to protect its borders," the ruling read.

By this "dark veil" period, he presumably meant the 35 years when dance music had to content itself with merely providing a glorious, euphoric voice for disenfranchised minorities, being a genuine countercultural phenomenon, repeatedly revolutionising music and changing the face of popular culture.

For now, I have to content myself with merely being fashionable.

With regard to Bacon's Two Books the Book of God and the Book of Nature one has to keep in mind that man, when given free access to the Book of Nature, should not content himself with merely reading it.

Not content with merely turning corners, they swing around lampposts.

Hatten said he was not content with merely making it to the N.C.A.A. tournament.

(No ordinary student, either - not content with merely watching Countdown like the rest of them, he is a champion of it, appearing on it three times in 2003).

He is the 7-1 second favorite in the pool, but so far his trainer, Aidan O'Brien, is content with merely cantering him.

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