Sentence examples for merely avoid from inspiring English sources

It's a nontelevised "reality show" in which a protagonist seeks to actually learn something, not merely avoid embarrassment and gain celebrity.

It is pretty safe to say that church attendance has not fallen and that alone makes churches stand out from the general civic decline.But over the past few years, one particular part of the American religious line-up has done far more than merely avoid decline.

As Lord Justice Sedley, a senior judge, said in 1998: "Allowance for a set of standards enforceable on the state by an international tribunal but not by its own citizens in its own courts makes no sense at all .Incorporation will do more than merely avoid international embarrassment.

"The fund didn't merely avoid losses, it greedily schemed to profit further by shorting Elan and Wyeth stock," said April Brooks, a senior F.B.I. official in New York, during a press conference on Nov. 20, the day Mr. Martoma was arrested.

Sam Hain (34 not out) led a mini-recovery but Warwickshire need 79 more runs to merely avoid an innings defeat as Kent - stunned by a Somerset fightback in last week's season opener - closed in on a first Championship Division One win since 2010.

Do not merely avoid feelings of heightened sensations such as fear.

They fret about PGD moving from merely avoiding deleterious traits to actively selecting desirable ones.

But merely avoiding impeachment will not restore the moral and political authority the President has lost.

"An action that merely avoids indecency," he said, "has only the palest claim to decency".

Under those circumstances surviving, merely avoiding relegation, was a mission in itself.

Others highlight the desire to aim higher than merely avoiding breaking the law.