Sentence examples similar to had merely decided from inspiring English sources

She has merely decided to delay confrontation with the British PM over the matter for now, principally for three reasons.

To read the pre-concert coverage, it's as though Bush had not merely decided to perform again after so long, but that she'd been resurrected to do so.

He said he had merely stumbled upon a weapons stash and decided to use it to rob passengers.

There the court of appeal decided that the store detective had merely made a report – but the guard in Seddon's­ case may have overstepped the mark.

And if Álvarez-Angulo had merely been a more competitive fight, the referee might have decided — justifiably — that Angulo's health and safety weren't the most important considerations, after all.

Fed up, Ms. McKenna, an insurance adjuster, decided to move to New London, a city that for years had merely served as a useful milepost.

The health secretary had not decided to "compel" NHS trusts to use the new contract, he had merely approved it, Sheldon said.

She had merely misspoken.

In fact it had merely hosted them.

Investors had merely expected steeper declines.

Whether she had a proclivity for silence or merely decided upon it as adaptive behavior for survival, she was often silent, and that silence was unquestioned by the family.