Sentence examples for merely contributed to 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.

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.

Subsequent studies have merely contributed to improve precision of this effect as reflected by a progressive narrowing of the confidence interval.

This merely contributes to instability to the already unstable Balkans.

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.

This may also occur despite the fact that increasing the tube current has little if any effect on the beam hardening and streak artefacts created by such metal and merely contributes to additional patient dose [29].

It is controversial whether pulmonary contusion with flail chest is a major factor in mortality on its own or whether it merely contributes to mortality in people with multiple injuries.