Sentence examples for merely clears from inspiring English sources

This negative thesis does not in itself say how social goods should be distributed; it merely clears the decks.

Then, silence, until The Triumph of Achilles (1985), unless one counts the paper-thin The House on Marshland (1975), where she merely clears her throat in the lowest possible key.

Even their defensive headers have a purpose higher than merely clearing the ball.

But, in a way, that merely cleared the decks for more serious business.

Workers cannot merely clear out the crater, as the pressure of the debris helps support the nearby slurry wall.

The more procedural points merely clear the way for progress, so at best they represent a kind of proto-progress.

But this has merely cleared the way for the dalit chief minister, Mayawati, to go on an all-out rampage against her personal caste enemies, the middle-ranking yadavs.

It is a bold assumption that the government's strategy would prevent this, and the risks should be obvious that military intervention would merely clear the field for the next wave of extremists.

That merely cleared the way for the companies to appeal the verdicts — and many of Judge Robinson's rulings during the case — to the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington.

However, antiretrovirals merely clear the virus from the bloodstream leaving reservoirs of HIV in other organs untouched.

But his departure merely cleared the stage for wicketkeeper-batsman Buttler, who cracked three sixes and six fours in his first fifty in an England shirt.