Sentence examples for had merely acknowledged from inspiring English sources

But after facing criticism for including theories that the planet is only 6,000 years old, the Trust said it had merely acknowledged the presence of such views and was committed to scientific evidence on the origins of the Causeway.

He stood, as if to acknowledge the inspector's attentions, but didn't glance upward, possibly not wishing to incur rebuke, or perhaps he had merely grown incurious about what were, for him, routine operations.

She had merely misspoken.

In fact it had merely hosted them.

Justice Moore argued that the monument did not establish a state religion but merely acknowledged the role God had played throughout the history of American law.

Although they had seen the papers by Brout and Englert and by Higgs, they merely acknowledged them in references, and did not alter their own paper before submitting it.

Its authors acknowledge that they have merely scratched the surface, because their subjects are highly mobile and wary of the authorities.

Letters that young Douglas wrote to his father were merely acknowledged by a studio clerk.

Some agreed entirely with the transcription, others merely acknowledged its plausibility.

Yet for other scientists, animal reasoning and consciousness have merely become the latest in the long list of humanity's supposedly unique characteristics to be acknowledged as shared more widely across the animal kingdom.

Felippsen, whose brother was killed by the police, acknowledges that violence in Providência has fallen since their arrival, but argues it has merely been displaced to other parts of the city.