Sentence examples for merely a motion from inspiring English sources

A full act of parliament – rather than merely a motion – would be required to give ministers authorisation to trigger Brexit, the supreme court has been told.

And this time it's the real deal: it's not merely a motion on whether to hold the vote, but the vote itself.

He did not propose any specific scheme of reform, but merely a motion that the House inquire into possible improvements.

Hardwicke rejected the argument, however, declaring that the former case had been decided merely on a motion, and that he had given his decision and statements without the thought he would have given a normal hearing.

It is merely a quantity of motion calculable in another substance.

Evidently Ibn Daud considered the second to be a better proof than the first given that it yields a first principle of being, instead of merely a first principle of motion.

Willing, then, is a motion, and is merely the last act of desire or aversion in any process of deliberation.

His penchant for invention, research, and experimentation allied him to the pioneers of the film art; for him to create a motion picture was not merely to express but to invent cinematically.

Each tiny forward motion represented merely a fragment of the most challenging mental feat I have ever accomplished: being alone with myself.

and resulted in a humiliating sense of defeat as she struggled to reply". The defense attorneys, in hallway interviews during a recess, said the motion is "merely a red herring" being presented by the prosecutors because they are worried about their witnesses' credibility.

He distinguished two kinds a "kinetic" pleasure of sense and a "static" pleasure, consisting in the absence of pain and taught that the pleasure of sense is good, though it is not good merely as motion but rather as a motion favourable to the nature of the receiving sense organ.