Sentence examples for merely applauded from inspiring English sources

The Africans - with a very small number of honourable exceptions - have merely applauded Mugabe.

But the betting is that at Stockholm they will merely applaud the good intentions expressed in its new paper.

Ergo, Nike executives were cheering wildly somewhere, or merely applauding the flawless execution of a prearranged plan.

Nadal plays a forehand winner down the line in a point he controlled so completely he might as well have been shifting Lajovic around like a Subbuteo figure, and the crowd merely applauds gently.

Amongst other things Hoxha said that, according to Khrushchev, the Party of Labour and Albania itself "should merely applaud and approve, but express no opinion of its own.

For the people who believe they are merely applauding a voice in a dialogue that has sought to exclude them (often mistakenly), there are others out there who believe they have been charged with a righteous vigilante mission.

He needs  others for foreign-policy gruntwork, or merely to applaud his archery prowess.

Colbert and Fallon have both found an ally in that quest in digital culture -- but Colbert should be applauded for not merely using it but wanting to understand it.

When the dissident "good news" scientist Bjorn Lomborg spoke to a conservative Washington thinktank he was applauded not merely rapturously, but fawningly.

But while Mrs. Shomer applauded the law, Mr. DaSilva said it merely gives homeowners' five years' notice to sell their property.

A few examples of heroism will not stir the masses to emulate a higher version of itself -- it merely admires, applauds and fails to see itself mirrored back.