Sentence examples for has merely put from inspiring English sources

The state, meanwhile, has merely put off many tough decisions, monitors said.

Harvard has accused a prominent professor of serious failings yet has merely put him on book leave.

But if succeeding in search is Microsoft's Mount Everest, as some executives there have suggested, Bing's success so far has merely put the company at base camp.

Instead, he has merely put off the difficult questions for his successors to solve, and he has provided an inglorious sideshow to the continuing crises in Syria and Libya that are leading to the drowning of refugees in the Mediterranean.

But they had merely put off the inevitable.

The revolution had not actually brought many revolutionaries to power — for the most part, it had merely put the opposition, formerly the ruling party, back into government.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the majority, said the law had merely put "foreign works on an equal footing with their U.S. counterparts".

The comptroller said the state, however, had merely put off much of its budget woes until next year, borrowing $4.2 billion in bonds backed by the state's general fund and money it receives from tobacco companies as part of a court settlement.

This was not in fact the case; Waugh had merely put the work aside.

When Cecil's father objected, Lord Robert stated, "I have merely put into print what all the country gentlemen were saying in private".

More writers can accomplish more with essays and autobiographies than they can with fiction for one simple reason: being so fully in their own heads, being the auditors of their own unceasing internal monologue, nonfiction writers have merely to put out the cup and fill it from the passing current for it to be a pure and true draught of the inner life.