Sentence examples for interest merely from inspiring English sources

People were lending to the U.S. Treasury on the promise of zero interest — merely knowing their capital was safe was profit enough.

Perhaps the greatest change which occurred in European culture between the French Revolution and the Battle of Waterloo was that the individual ceased to be of interest merely as an embodiment of general human characteristics, but became, instead, a conduit for new ideas about what human nature was.

And critics say the latest burst of interest merely reflects a decades' long tendency to overestimate the capabilities of lasers, while underestimating the operational and technical difficulties of using such weapons for missile defence.

Nor, it appears, were her interests merely, or even primarily, sexual.

Now is not the time either to compromise this legal right or complicate the factual reality, in favor of profit-making interests merely for the sake of unlimited Internet expansion.

They do not provide uniform rules on security interests but merely guarantee that an interest validly created in one contracting state will be recognized in any other contracting state.

Its hero is Edmund Burke, the philosopher and MP who (rather bravely) informed his 18th-century constituents that he was not an agent for their narrow interests, but merely their elected representative in a national, deliberative assembly.

Hence the natural law does not forbid the pursuit of self-interest but merely regulates it, enjoining both the care of self and the care of others that humans already seek (in a limited and inadequate fashion).

According to Arendt a distinctive feature of radical evil is that it isn't done for humanly understandable motives such as self-interest, but merely to reinforce totalitarian control and the idea that everything is possible (Arendt 1951, 437 459; Bernstein 2002, 203 224).

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, he claimed stakes in properties in which he had no ownership interest, but was merely licensing the use of his name or was in line to collect a percentage of future profits.

Leaving the evaluated GPs to their own initiative after the feedback meeting may have left some loose ends which were never followed up - not necessarily due to a lack of interest but maybe merely lack a room for reflection.