Sentence examples for merely by holding from inspiring English sources

We could do a lot of good merely by holding out the possibility of an invasion.

It has a unique feature: a "walkie-talkie" mode that allows Nextel subscribers to talk to each other instantly merely by holding down a special button and speaking into the phone.For years, this "push-to-talk" (PTT) feature, used mostly by builders, maintenance technicians and safety workers, was seen as an anomaly.

Indeed, the loss of strength is so acute that mice could be accurately and simply phenotyped for low muscular strength without any specialized equipment, merely by holding the mice by the tail and assessing their ability to struggle or grip a cage lid.

But by holding fast to the middle, Cao isn't merely playing it safe as the first House Republican to represent New Orleans since Reconstruction.

But the court ignores these possibilities by holding that merely granting the student body the power to elect a speaker that may choose to pray, "regardless of the students' ultimate use of it, is not acceptable".

One might object to these claims by holding that a sufficient amount of goods that are "merely good enough" should be able to outweigh a small number of truly excellent goods.

By holding on to virtue, it seems, his mother can transcend typical, yet merely contingent features of female life.

As it is, by merely holding out the hope, he got a bargain price.

By contrast, when Robert Boyle, the "father of chemistry", stopped his own severe nosebleed one summer by merely holding skull-moss in his hand, he may have been experiencing a psychosomatic, rather than strictly physical effect.

Meanwhile, in United States v. Miller (1939), in a prosecution under the National Firearms Act (1934), the Supreme Court avoided addressing the constitutional scope of the Second Amendment by merely holding that the "possession or use of a shotgun having a barrel of less than eighteen inches in length" was not "any part of the ordinary military equipment" protected by the Second Amendment.

Not surprisingly, they believe they can get what they want by merely holding out, and, because we assume we need their consent on the great issues, they are probably right.