Sentence examples for merely an indicator from inspiring English sources

Nor is it known whether homocysteine itself is the culprit (although ample evidence suggests it is) or whether homocysteine is merely an indicator for something else that does the damage.

However, it was unclear from this latest study whether sleeping for more than eight hours was actually causing the kind of cardiovascular problems that can lead to stroke, or whether it was merely an indicator or symptom of underlying conditions.

Whether NOSVA is a direct cause of prolonged catecholamine use and longer ICU stay or merely an indicator of severity of illness remains to be determined.

Apparently, then, the term "exist" is not (or not merely) an indicator of the judgement-quality, as Brentano would have it.

Perhaps a violation of a requirement of instrumental coherence is merely an indicator that an agent is not functioning well in the exercise of her rational capacities, where this evaluation doesn't entail that she ought, or has reason, to be instrumentally coherent on any particular occasion (see Raz 2005a,b).

A society of materialists and consumers cannot claim to be puritan, and thinness is no guarantee for health -- even if it is marketed that way: the prevailing desirability of thinness in our time is merely an indicator for a preoccupation with being seen as attractive.

The changes occuring in the flora of the three first patients might merely be an indicator that the flora with rising estrogen levels shifts, from being dominated with species not normally found in healthy floras, to a flora normally found in healthy women.

No, the "Orange Marilyn" is neither a leading nor a lagging indicator, but merely a coincident indicator of our corporate world's prosperity.

River ice breakup dates (BDs) are not merely a proxy indicator of climate variability and change, but a direct concern in the management of local ice-caused flooding.

Previously reported associations between birth order and suicidality [ 13, 14] may therefore be mediated by sexual orientation, with birth order being merely a risk indicator.

It is therefore possible that the goal-specificity is really determined by γ and that β is merely a good indicator.