Sentence examples for merely be called from inspiring English sources

Presti came out of the Spurs' organization, where he worked for General Manager R. C. Buford and Coach Gregg Popovich — whose handiwork in San Antonio cannot merely be called building through the draft as much as it has been a tribute to old-fashioned scouting (or scouring) the planet for talent.

After all, Parfit seems to be trying to show that (a) what in fact matters to us in survival (revealed by the fission case) is Relation R, not identity, and (b) what these antecedent commitments about survival imply about prudence and morality is that the wrongness we currently attach to great imprudence should merely be called a wrongness of morality.

"They have merely been called as witnesses.

In the simulation of a Persian Gulf conflict with a foe that might have been Iran or Iraq but was called merely Red, American forces -- or Blue -- suffered unexpected losses from a sneak attack early in the fighting but then emerged victorious.

The lesson, perhaps, is that it is not enough merely to be called hero.

His first disappointment over, the adult finds it occurring to him that this book was not aimed at him, and that Mr. Kipling has actually written a children's book meant to be liked by children, and not merely to be called by grown-up people a book that children are sure to like.

He is said to be merely lucky lucky to be called Bush, lucky to win the governorship of Texas and lucky to have had Mr Gore as an opponent.

In 1973, Saint Laurent fell obsessively in love with Jacques de Bascher, an extremely good-looking and decadent man with a complex personality that in less rarefied circles might be called merely twisted, but that made him fascinating.

Kate Baldwin and Lewis Cleale, who play Agnes and Michael in the current Westport Country Playhouse incarnation of the show, could hardly be called merely competent.

During a meeting on Thursday at which WB executives discussed their fall programs, he announced that "Tarzan and Jane" would henceforth be called merely 'Tarzan".

For a long time they were underestimated by most observers as merely part of what used to be called the "informal economy".