Sentence examples for merely a front from inspiring English sources

But behind the publicity, some observers believe the studio is merely a front and the true goal is financial.

He accused the organisation of being "merely a front for the Labour party, paid for by National Lottery funds".

The popular Molière was, we now know, merely a front for the highbrow Corneille, who was hungry for the money generated by the vulgar genre of comedy.

Galbraith said that Ford lacked the ability to build a business structure and that he was merely a front man, a promoter.

The investigation was prompted by the 2004 sale of the Dolce & Gabbana and D&G brands to a Luxembourg-based holding company, which prosecutors came to believe was merely a front to pay lower taxes.

Demirtas has been the target of fierce campaign attacks by Erdogan, who belittled him a "pretty boy" who is merely a front for the outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).

But though Boehner is a nice soft target — he belittled the economic meltdown as an "ant" and has staked his political capital on extending tax cuts for America's wealthiest 3 percent — he's merely a front-man.

Mr Weber is a better economist but less of a diplomat.For now, he is merely a front-runner for the job, edging ahead of his main rival, Mario Draghi, governor of the Bank of Italy.

The "card" provided is merely a front-end to a PayPal account for now, but co-founder and CEO Tina Hay says they want to open up to more funding sources in the future, including credit and debit cards.

But whatever their intentions, private collectors often face the charge that public displays of their works are merely a "shop front" designed to possibly increase the value of their holdings.

Kirstein had had affairs with women as well as men in his early years, and his marriage — he decided within weeks that he would marry her — does not appear to have been merely a social front, nor was it (by his own account) a sexless union, although there were no children.