Sentence examples for has merely set from inspiring English sources

The tussle over Champions League rights has merely set the scene for an even bigger battle once the live rights to Premier League, the real driver of subscriptions, return to the market.

Aleppo was certainly a development of huge consequence in the context of six years of Syria's crisis, but it has merely set the stage for a new and likely far more dangerous phase of conflict.

Otherwise, they have merely set up the next crisis.

Others thought the photographer had merely set up shop at a museum diorama and clicked away.

It took a physicist, Alessandro Volta to show that there was no electric fluid, and that Galvani had merely set up a bimetallic cell.

Some skeptics would argue that the Fed's monetary activism has merely been setting the stage for an even bigger blowup.

If Vicarious has merely created a new set of brittle solutions, then it is not a breakthrough.

The BBC has now published research indicating that, far from being dead, Britain's class system has merely splintered into a new set of social strata.

A few participants who reported having "no expectations" mentioned that having expectations would merely set them up for disappointment.

Emmerich's people don't face apocalypse by getting drunk or having sex; they merely set about planning "the most important schedule in the history of mankind," which happens to be the most boring phrase in the history of American cinema.

Perhaps the hundred or so Tory backbenchers signed up to Graham Brady's backbench campaign for grammar schools are equally excited about all these other things, obviously, and have merely forgotten to set up a backbench campaign for them.