Sentence examples for has merely allowed from inspiring English sources

How do you explain to American taxpayers how their trillion dollar bailout of the banks has merely allowed the bankers to take back billions in bonuses?

But apart from a burst of stimulus spending in 2009 and 2010 to increase lending temporarily, the infusion has not expanded the S.B.A.'s reach — it has merely allowed the agency to maintain its existing loan volume.

There is much talk that the ECB's purchase of Greek government bonds, for example, has merely allowed wealthy Greeks to move their money to Cyprus and Luxembourg.Shifting money out of a weak banking system seems like a no-brainer for customers.

But by and large, the coming of peace to the Balkans has merely allowed the deep problems of state weakness, and of incomplete state-building projects, to be seen more clearly.The "open status" issues of Kosovo and Montenegro obstruct the normalisation of political life in Serbia, the western Balkans' biggest country, and thus overshadow the whole region.

"But the Addis action agenda has allowed aid commitments to dry up, and has merely handed over development to the private sector without adequate safeguards".

Lubonja has suggested that the ideology of the regime has merely changed form, shifting from a national-communist to a national-Europeanist worldview and allowing the Albanians to simply bury their past.

But it has merely confused it.

Their economic dominance has merely been postponed.

Jeter, then, has merely modified his mechanics.

The candidate has merely embarrassed himself.

The automatic transmission has merely 6 speeds.