Sentence examples for merely conditions from inspiring English sources

For her, loneliness and mortality are not merely conditions to be recalled but present afflictions to be endured, and she can only pray, "Give me what I can bear to know I felt".

Perhaps my republican freedom is compromised when someone gains arbitrary power over me, but it is merely conditioned when I lack the means or opportunities to make full use of it, and interferences might be one such conditioning factor.

Lueck says many clown haters will blame their fears on an incident in their early lives, but he thinks that they were merely conditioned by others to think negatively.

Is the distinction between real causes and mere background conditions merely an arbitrary and unsystematic affair?

For businessmen to learn anything about the larger aspects of business merely aggravates conditions.

But the government "may not conscript teetotalers merely because conditions in the liquor market would be improved if more people imbibed".

But he has also suggested that federal regulators should merely impose conditions on AT&T's 2011 bid to buy T-Mobile, which, thankfully, was blocked by the Obama administration because it would have left only three national cellphone companies.

The only mission now underway to perform onsite study of any planet or moon's surface is NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (better known as the Curiosity rover), and it is designed not to detect life directly, but merely the conditions that would make it possible.

They are "merely subjective conditions of all our intuition".

In answering the question of how nature in the formal sense is possible Kant proceeds to distinguish between "empirical laws of nature, which always presuppose particular perceptions" and "the pure or universal laws of nature, which, without having a basis in particular perceptions, contain merely the conditions of their necessary unification in an experience" (4, 320; 71).

For example, the difference in mobility between corresponding bands (treatment/control) affects the value of Matushita distance (equation 5 in [ 21]) which is used for the computation of the dissimilarity score (equation 8 in [ 21]), though these differences reflect merely physical conditions during gel electrophoresis and are unrelated to transcription.