Sentence examples for merely a means from inspiring English sources

This view is often expressed in the slogan 'guns do not kill people, people do', meaning guns are merely a means to an end (which could be peaceful or violent depending on the user of the gun).

Was acting merely a means to an end?

"I rather think that the exertion and skill are merely a means to the end.

Feeding his habit became his raison d'être, jazz merely a means to that all-consuming end.

And he is adamant about the idea of music as merely a means to an end.

The academy setup is not merely a means of progressing youngsters into the senior side.

Sex is, if not merely a means to that end, above all a channel for it.

CSR is merely a means to those ends, a way to ingratiate capitalism to a rightly suspecting public.

But Mr. Posner finds boxing unspeakably boring and distasteful, and merely a means for participants to attain dementia.

The referendum is merely "a means of applying pressure" on the European Commission, during world trade talks in coming weeks.

Many critics say that Mr. Nikolic's reorientation toward the West is merely a means to get elected.