Sentence examples for due merely from inspiring English sources

That was due merely to a legal change that translates even less than 1% of votes into one seat.

It shrank 0.2%, meaning the total growth of the state's economy was due merely to population growth rather than any actual improvement in economic performance.

It wasn't due merely to the weather —though weather, the disjunctive edge of climate, seemed implacably poised to compromise this grrrl.

His impulse to eliminate subject matter altogether was not, it should be noted, due merely or even primarily to strictly aesthetic considerations.

He sold that stamp in November 1996 for $2.3 million (including his commission), after verifying that the yellow color was not due merely to the fading of a stamp that had originally been green.

Although some economists took that as a sign of a labour-market recovery, others worried that the rise in jobs was due merely to seasonal effects and a change in survey methods.

And the test of statistical significance tries to put a numerical figure on the amount of it that would be due to merely chance, or merely random reasons.

The failure of spontaneous anatomical and functional repair is due not merely to the intrinsic incapacity of the neuron to regenerate but rather to the presence of a hostile environment in the lesion site.

Despite the dramatic anecdotes about truckloads of landfilled crops, little of farm waste is due to merely "cosmetic" blemishes.

Alaska's inclusion is due not merely to low turnout on account of inclement weather, as Menand suggests, but also to the state's history of disenfranchising its vast Native American population.

Even more shocking, 80% of employees indicated that they lost time at work due to merely ruminating about experienced incivility, with 66% indicating that their performance declined, and 78% indicating that they lowered their commitment to their organization.