Sentence examples for merely assist from inspiring English sources

Scenes from this corner of the battlefield, observed over eight days by two New York Times journalists, suggest that the day when the Afghan Army will be well led and able to perform complex operations independently, rather than merely assist American missions, remains far off.

PERLEY J. THIBODEAU Upper East Side The Greenpoint Food Pantry does not merely assist the homeless and transient population, it also helps a number of families who, when faced with paying rent or putting dinner on the table, chose the former.

I have merely assisted them in the pursuit of Catherine Havisham, as the following prequels and sequels have done with other great characters.

One F.B.I. official familiar with the Yee and Al Halabi cases suggested that the agency had merely assisted military investigators but had not endorsed their approach.

He downplays his part to simply "merely assisting in the technical realisation" of the work, although it is no small thing to so seamlessly finish off another's work.

Drugs go missing, some women still cannot get treatment without paying and an online-procurement system unsurprisingly foundered, because of the general lack of internet access.The British government modestly describes the free health-care system as a Sierra Leonean initiative that it is merely assisting.

THE plaintiffs, represented by the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic at Yale Law School and the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, have presented depositions from local and federal officers meant to dispute the mayor's contention that the city merely assisted federal officers in a legal sweep.

There is democratic efficiency in place that the beekeeper merely assists in supporting.

Congressman Aderholt's comments at these prior years' events just reinforce Ms. Dobson's clear distinction of whose event this is and who is merely assisting.

And again, transposing a song for this purpose does not alter any fundamental qualities or characteristics of the song but merely assists the ability of those unfamiliar with the technicalities of music in making a comparison".

Ms. Dobson & Co. decided to to try to circumvent the explicit military regulations on non-federal entities by claiming that it is not her NDP Task Force's event, but is really run by Congressman Robert Aderholt (R-AL), and that her Task Force is merely assisting the congressman.