Sentence examples for merely a convenient from inspiring English sources

This is not merely a convenient coincidence.

But what if Apple were merely a convenient whipping boy?

For her, the database was merely a convenient repository of information.

At first the Swapper gun he wields is merely a convenient tool to create help.

All his talk of government reform, they say, was merely a convenient cover to mask oversized ambition.

The industry increasingly agrees with its prediction that mobile is not merely a convenient add-on to fixed-line telephones, but is sure to overtake them.

"The security council merely provides a convenient venue for talking about these issues in a high-profile way.

* * * They were regarded merely as a convenient mode of imposing taxes on several descriptions of business, and of ascertaining the parties from whom such taxes were to be collected.

Teddy Roosevelt, whose famous "New Nationalism" speech in 1910 called upon the three branches of the federal government to put the public welfare before the interests of money and property, merely provided a convenient framing device.

When the authorities recently arrested a suspect in the attacks who they said was mentally disturbed and of Armenian origin — not a fanatical Turk motivated by hatred, as many assumed — it only raised more suspicions among some residents of Samatya, who said they thought the police had merely found a convenient scapegoat.

That, or merely being a convenient place to search old headlines.