Sentence examples for merely a procedure from inspiring English sources

The Yankees are fortunate it's merely a procedure to remove some loose bodies since other shoulder surgeries include fixing a torn rotator cuff or a torn labrum.

Agreement over the tax had already been reached before the meeting, and the nod from a majority of the Ecofin group of EU finance ministers - a requirement of the enhanced co-operation procedure - was merely a procedural matter, according to the Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan.

For this revision, we merely deleted a procedure that did not apply to this AFI.

The Obama administration was merely following a procedure authorized under a program in which investments were understood to be inherently risky when used to pick winners among enterprises engaged in emerging technologies.

Didn't Mr Robinson know this was merely a "technical procedure" and would have no effect on jobs or the corporate tax take?

Writing in the novella Slowness about the most famous book of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Kundera observes: "The epistolary form of Les Liaisons dangereuses is not merely a technical procedure that could easily be replaced by another.

The task of integration is thereby not merely an additive procedure but has to be considered as important part of the research process.

We anticipated that when faced with only the three alternatives, women who merely consented to a procedure would select " My maternity care provider(s) decided and checked if it was OK with me" and that women who genuinely participated in shared decision-making (as well as those who considered their providers' opinions before deciding on a procedure) would select " I decided…".

Thus the vote of no confidence in the Knesset was not merely a commonplace parliamentary procedure; it was also a test of the coalition's confidence in its leader in the literal meaning of the word "confidence".Although Mr Netanyahu nominally won by a margin of 55 votes to 50, he conspicuously failed to pass muster.

To briefly outline the method, the smoothed ellipsoidal height change of the TOKI station (Fig. 1(a)) was interpolated to the hourly data, by a least-squares method, from the daily one (this oversampling is a merely procedure to unify the sampling intervals) and then the effect of the height change was calculated by multiplying by a free-air gradient.

In the second round of the study, clinical educators advocated a combination of different approaches that sought to develop more complex outcomes than merely the ability to perform a procedure, or know a fact.