Sentence examples for merely acquisition from inspiring English sources

Hence over the course of the year, each student was extensively and repeatedly assessed in a variety of formats and settings, looking at a broad range of learning issues beyond merely acquisition of knowledge.

The goal of Mladić and his comrades was not merely the acquisition of land but the removal of a part of the populace.

Henry promoted Cranfield's focus on the application of knowledge rather than merely its acquisition, and was always looking for ideas and inventions that could lead to profitable products.

This is because the task now in hand does not involve action but merely the acquisition of knowledge" (AT VII 22/CSM II 15).

In general, learning and memory are considered to require higher brain functions and are not merely the acquisition of a series of elicited responses (Kirsch et al. 2004).

You know "you can't take it with you," but it's too simple to see stuff either as necessities to function in the material world, or merely useless acquisitions.

With plans to put a billion dollars toward acquisitions this year, Berkshire allegedly had an "iron in the fire" that fell through in the last couple days, but Buffett called the proposed acquisition merely zebra-sized.

The acquisition merely gave the Celtics a world-class conductor for their Big Three symphony of Allen, Pierce and Kevin Garnett, as their coach, Doc Rivers, was quick to acknowledge.

Seeing the Instagram acquisition as merely quashing a potential competitor to one aspect of Facebook's offering is far too narrow an outlook, though.

~Jenna Wortham, New York Times Seeing the Instagram acquisition as merely quashing a potential competitor to one aspect of Facebook's offering is far too narrow an outlook, though.

In return for merely postponing Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons (for two or three years, in the estimate of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates), it would change the Iranian public's attitude toward the ruling mullahs (and their nuclear ambitions) from unhappy resignation to inflamed support.