Sentence examples for merely can't from inspiring English sources

You'll want to know how much of your income the policy replaces, how soon it kicks in, how long the payments last and whether the policy covers you only if you can't do any job or also covers you if you merely can't do your former job.

"I am in acute crisis about my work," he wrote in 1958, not long after Endgame had premiered in English, "(on the lines familiar to you by now) and have decided that I not merely can't but won't go on as I have been going more or less ever since the Textes pour Rien and must either get back to nothing again and the bottom of all the hills again like before Molloy or else call it a day".

Merely to hear him cry, "But can't you see the Russian plan?

"But merely because he can't convince his party, why do the other 24 million Australians have to sign up to his deal?

What good teams understand (and bad teams don't) is that Calvin Johnson can play the role of Calvin Johnson, but a merely productive Pro Bowler can't – even if you give him big bucks.

But companies can't afford to merely react to the news cycle.

Just as we can't merely react to the reality of band rehearsals, sports practices, and parents' meetings, we can't react to the reality of media and electronics in our families' lives.

The patterns are merely suggestive — they can't show that physicians are motivated by this threat.

Most of the lyrics are merely topical; it can't be easy to write something archetypal about fuel economy.

Or — it all depends — they might be beneficial, because liberal civilization's flourishing has often depended on forces that a merely procedural order can't generate, on radical and religious correctives to a flattened view of human life.

In "Playtest," an employee of the video-game company assures Cooper that the spectres he sees during the trial are merely holograms and can't harm him, a claim that comes to seem increasingly suspect.