Sentence examples for merely constitutes from inspiring English sources

At home, reading over someone's shoulder merely constitutes annoying behavior; doing it to a stranger on the subway feels close to illegal, or at least illicit.

The interplanetary space is not a passive medium, which merely constitutes a scene for the propagation of previously accelerated energetic particles, but influences the distribution of particles by changing their energies as well due to interactions with magnetic field inhomogeneities.

The DP also refutes Google's argument that delisting on dot.com constitutes an extraterritorial application of French law — saying it merely constitutes "full compliance of European law by non-European players offering their services in Europe".

Hence, with respect to NF- κB activation, IBC is not a distinct entity but merely constitutes a minor part of the spectrum of ER-negative breast tumours.

It is clear that this line of reasoning merely constitutes a stochastically informed verbal argument and requires in-depth modeling in the future.

Finally, Lewis says that each of the constituters is so like the object it is meant to merely constitute (be it a cloud, or a cat, or whatever), it satisfies the same sortals as that object.

But CoCos would not merely constitute a compensation fig leaf.

These studies suggested that those SSEPs do not merely constitute a faithful encoding of the rhythm.

So the vase and the statue are not identical to the pieces but merely constituted by (or composed of) them.

He has merely constituted an advisory committee to deliberate on "the nomenclature, structure and modalities" of the eventual Commission for a Dialogue or Conference.

Seen in this light, it's clear that all the paraphernalia we regard as the sign and substance of government may in fact merely constitute what a dynamicist would think of as a "local maximum".