Sentence examples for merely adopted from inspiring English sources

You merely adopted the dark.

Hence, as one might expect, they merely adopted the local non-Arabic names.

Some Nahda people argue that many Salafists are decent Tunisians who have merely adopted a more rigorous interpretation of Islam.

Sometimes I wonder if my conscience has merely adopted his accent for its own reasons, but I'm more persuaded by my earlier explanation.

Had Brandir merely adopted one of the existing sculptures as a bicycle rack, neither the application to a utilitarian end nor commercialization of that use would have caused the object to forfeit its copyrighted status.

Baron Cohen, however, merely adopted the guise of hapless TV presenter Borat to reply: "Borat like to state that he has no connection with Mr. Cohen and he fully support his government's decision to sue this jew!

The true winners in retail banking will not be the ones merely adopting new technology.

But merely adopting piecemeal, consumer-focused approaches to address outsourced emissions, such as product carbon labelling, won't cut it.

As The Guardian's editorial noted, Grieve thereby avoided having to argue his case, merely adopting the position that he disagreed with the tribunal.

I reiterate that I am not ascribing any kind of volition or emotion or awareness to the ideas themselves, merely adopting a common English shorthand of anthropomorphizing inanimate objects -- in this case, ideas.

With the assault on Iraq, the US was not merely adopting Israel's long-established methods - of initiative, offence and pre-emption - it was also adopting Israel's adversaries as its own.