Sentence examples for merely conduct from inspiring English sources

Hips twitching, toes tapping, hands slicing the air, she does not merely conduct the music.

In today's attackerese, the United States did not merely conduct a raid, mount an attack or deliver a blow to the Qaddafi forces in Libya.

To achieve this end, regulation must prohibit not merely conduct that is wrongful in itself (in lawyers' Latin, malum in se), but any conduct that would thwart the overall regulatory scheme even when it is not wrongful in itself (malum prohibitum).

He is merely conducting research.

Universities were reconstituted and organized, and they undertook teaching instead of merely conducting examinations for degrees.

The Congregation for the Causes of Saints – which oversees the canonisation process – should be seen as merely conducting a Vatican X Factor.

Volta felt that the frog merely conducted a current that flowed between the two metals, which he called "metallic electricity".

Top-of-the-line marketing might mean a broker holds a series of open houses, rather than one; or hires a chamber music quartet and serves hors d'oeuvres, rather than merely conducting the usual -- "Here's the kitchen, here's the bathroom" -- tour.

By the mid-5th century they no longer gave their own judgments but merely conducted preliminary inquiries (anakrisis), then brought the case before a jury, presiding over the hearing, but with no responsibility for directing the jury on matters of law.

Galvani interpreted that as a new form of electricity found in living tissue, which he called "animal electricity". Volta felt that the frog merely conducted a current that flowed between the two metals, which he called "metallic electricity". He began experimenting in 1792 with metals alone.

But unless the United States is prepared to release these men if they are acquitted — or in the perhaps more likely event that the charges against them are dismissed on due-process grounds, because they have been subjected to procedures that "shock the conscience" — it is arguably merely conducting a show trial.