Sentence examples for merely a stopgap from inspiring English sources

On one hand, it's theoretically better than CPR because it can restart the heart, whereas CPR is merely a stopgap.

The administration will argue that this is merely a stopgap decision that will still be subject to legal review.

Not merely a stopgap to keep appetites whetted until his next album, About a Boy stands up, very unusually for a soundtrack, in its own right.

Even as details of the deal were ironed out, some analysts were questioning whether it was an actual solution or merely a stopgap.

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

I became aware of this during an interview when I was asked whether I considered this job to be merely a stopgap, a question I had not expected and had no ready response for.

The first vaccine against avian flu for the United States was endorsed by a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel yesterday, but merely as a stopgap measure until better vaccines are developed.

Moving from single to double precision extended the viewable range, but was only a stopgap improvement.

This is why Carson and Vaitheeswaran regard the Prius merely as a stopgap: the true car of the future has to accommodate everyone, which is to say six and a half billion, soon to be nine billion, people.

But it is only a stopgap.

But that was only a stopgap.