Sentence examples for is merely capable of from inspiring English sources

This plug is pushed upward by a light spring that is merely capable of taking up the clearance between the valve stem and the rocker arm.

Right now, Maryland is merely capable of beating one of those teams on a good night when luck breaks their way, and they're good enough not to ever risk losing to goofball practice squad teams like Georgia Southern.

The potential wholes that Boethius is talking about are actual things, not possible things or things that are merely capable of being divided.

But they are merely tools, capable of both furthering and endangering democracy, depending on how they are used.

At first a harmless attractive-to-some, repellent-to-others kind of young man, he becomes a murderer, a killer for pleasure…he must never be quite queer — merely capable of playing the part".

There is nothing revolutionary in any of this; Dr. Melman is merely outlining what capable urologists know and do.

He took exception to Southwood's comment that his statement that "our clients remain vitally interested in the outcome of the inquiry" was merely "a device capable of being used to suggest Mr Lawler failed to accord Ms Lawrie procedural fairness".

Corporate decisions, however, are merely a nexus of individual decisions, which are just as capable of being moral or immoral.

After study, the small tracer that belongs to a member of ApoSense family is proved to be capable of imaging merely apoptotic regions in the CTX treated tumor-bearing mice.

Jordan offers his pre-emptive apologies to Glad — the trash-bag maker, not Glaad, the advocacy organization — and Lemon makes a public statement declaring that Jordan "is not capable of hate" but merely "an idiot who doesn't know what he's saying".

But his stately, teasing performance merely hinted at the fireworks he is still capable of releasing.