Sentence examples for merely a measure from inspiring English sources

The gross domestic product growth figures that many see as a vital barometer of the nation's progress are merely a measure of economic activity, not public benefit.

While I have learned how to manage expectations regarding the benefits and the risks of dialysis, many non-nephrologists often pin unrealistic hopes on it to treat conditions like advanced cardiomyopathy or liver cirrhosis where kidney failure is merely a measure of the severity of the underlying disease.

Time is merely a measure of cycles of change within the world.

It is merely a measure to demonstrate how well one variable predicts the other (Bahar and Reza 2010).

As we discussed in Section 2.1, utility is merely a measure of relative behavioural dispositions given certain consistency assumptions about relations between preferences and choices.

Furthermore, Polkinghorne (among others), as previously noted, has proposed interpreting the randomness in macroscopic chaotic models and systems as representing a genuine indeterminism rather than merely a measure of our ignorance (1991, pp. 34 48).

In this way the optimization problem is treated as a black box that merely provides a measure of quality given a candidate solution and the gradient is therefore not needed.

Wundt sees WL as simply a mathematical description of the more general experience that "we possess in our consciousness no absolute, but merely a relative measure of the intensity of the conditions [Zustände] obtaining in it, and that we therefore measure in each case one condition against another, with which we are obliged in the first place to compare it" (PP I: 393).

In some industries, like newspaper publishing, it is perhaps a better measure of profitability than net income; in many others, like cement making and railroads, it is merely a supplemental measure.

It was merely a war measure, to which we were forced by our own perils and necessities".

He recommended freezing police salaries, saying crime was not a big problem, and called the new rescue plan merely a "stopgap measure".