Sentence examples for merely a secondary from inspiring English sources

The senior law lord may have been right to claim, as he did yesterday, that the potential corruption of trials is merely a secondary reason to oppose torture, the first being its immorality.

Professor Whittington writes that academic research might aid "the struggle to cure a disease, or manufacture a product," but he suggests that such successes are merely a "secondary by-product" of what a university does (p. 14).

"We insist that the social is not an epi-phenomenon in the economy," he said, noting that the provision of social benefits in Scandinavian countries was not seen as merely a secondary effect of market-driven activity.

He argued (pdf) that religion existed as spiritual compensation for social alienation, and believed that once the true nature of religion as a comfort blanket in an alienated society had been revealed, it would become clear that religion is merely a secondary phenomenon dependent for its existence on socioeconomic circumstances.

The school called Kevalavyaktivāda argues that a particular individual bull is the sole primary meaning of the word "bull," while the generic property bull-ness is merely a secondary meaning.

Horney in particular argued for an inherent feminine disposition that is not merely a secondary formation premised on castration and she took issue with the ostensible effects of penis envy and women's supposed feelings of inferiority.

Prior to Greer's casting, Cheryl was initially intended to merely be a secondary character for Archer, and serve as a central figure in a proposed pregnancy angle.

The timing of the measurements is of critical importance as change in the mediator needs to be shown to have occurred prior to change in the outcome of interest as otherwise it could merely be a secondary effect.

Previously it was believed that, after removal of the cause of the injury, the resolution of inflammation was merely a passive process secondary to the catabolism of pro-inflammatory mediators.

Had construction of Simmons and Stata been a remarkably smooth process, oversight may have been a merely secondary concern.

Here Kant asserts that at least some regulative uses of judgment, and in particular, regulative judgments about the systematic unity of nature, have a transcendental presuppositional bearing on the truth of both synthetic a priori and synthetic a posteriori judgments in natural science, and do not play a merely secondary or heuristic role in scientific investigation (CPR A648/B676, A651/B679).