Sentence examples for merely contributed from inspiring English sources

Here it merely contributed to a flop so spectacular that it almost made you feel sorry for its creator.

The rumour that Rattle is considering the post of chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra when he leaves Berlin in 2018 merely contributed to the heady excitement.

Therefore, according to the superposition theorem, the voltage of any node i in the network is: U_{i} = mathop sum limits_{j} Z_{ij} I_{j} - Z_{if} I_{f} (2 where the first term is the voltage of node i before fault occurrence, denoted by U i (0); and −Z if I f is the voltage component of node i merely contributed by the short circuit current.

MR: Yeah, you sold out because you merely contributed to the culture songs like "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)," one of the great Woodstock-era anthems.

In 2014, in the little-discussed case Burrage v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that under federal law, a prosecutor must prove that a dealer provided a drug that decisively caused a user's death rather than having merely contributed to it.

Retaining them in the analysis did not appear to compromise the synthesis since the weaker studies merely contributed to fewer themes rather than changing the themes.

This merely contributes to instability to the already unstable Balkans.

He was quoted by news agencies here as saying that "Japan must show the flag" instead of merely contributing money.

The conversations that emerge can provide a way to reconsider an issue or article through the eyes of others —  or merely contribute new and enjoyable punch lines.

The government would merely contribute to retirement accounts, and state workers would choose how that money was invested — and live with the consequences.

Thus, when Thrasymachus in the first book of Plato's Republic argues that justice is unwarranted when it merely contributes to another's good and not to the good of the doer, Plato agrees.