Sentence examples for it could merely from inspiring English sources

Volkswagen is promising to release a fix for its software soon; fixing its entire operation may leave it wishing it could merely fire a few mortgage traders.

It could merely indicate that the alternatives have been spurned.

Or, more prosaically, it could merely create the second-biggest bank in Europe.

Or it could merely mean that high gas and housing prices are hitting hard.

Or it could merely be viewed as a saga of an old man and his shoes.

Of course, it could merely be that not enough people read Braudy's book.

His lasting contribution here, he said, was to point out that instead of lugging each sheep up the beautiful winding stone staircase, anaesthetising it and diagnosing pregnancy by opening it up, one could merely feel its belly while it was still outside.

The absence of common nsSNPs in the other genes makes the IFIH1 SNP the strongest functional candidate, but it could be merely a marker of association, due to LD with a variant regulating expression levels of IFIH1 or neighboring genes.

Alternatively, HGF may not be directly associated with diabetes risk, but it could be merely a bystander correlated with or induced by diabetes risk factors.

Because this was seen only in the retrospective subgroup analysis, it could be merely reflective of chance.

It could be merely a matter of personal taste and aesthetics.