Sentence examples for it merely served from inspiring English sources

The exception: Google's successful initial public offering over five years ago did not usher in a new era of good times for venture capitalists; it merely served to underscore how rare these happy events have become.

He added: "Because of the nature of the reporting, it merely served, I think, to encourage the police in their belief that they may have caught the actual murderer.

So while the thematic plan was not legal in any sense, it merely served as a guideline.

Frontex has stressed that it merely served an advisory role in the operation.

Sometimes it works; often it merely serves to annoy.

In any case, the recipe no longer yields; it merely serves.

Certainly, other politicians, our president first among them, have said worse, and dignified rhetoric means little if it merely serves to obscure undignified policies.

Dood's Big Adventure is the only dud; a brave attempt to add an unusual control twist to platform gaming, it merely serves to highlight the device's limitations.

Critics of the policy argue that it is flawed not because the idea of making more efficient use of scare social housing allocations is inherently unfair, but because, with so few one- and two-bedroom homes available to downsize to, it merely serves to penalise residents financially for the failure to build enough – or the correct sized – social homes.

"The question that naturally arises is whether such a policy really protects national security or whether it merely serves to stifle the ability of Dr. Postol to communicate his views," Mr. Markey asks in a letter sent to the accounting office today.

There is no mention of any different astonishment when that same snow lies blue-white on the ground; it merely serves as a useful background for the dirty yellow sheep that lie "like large fat maggots on the pale skin of a corpse".