Sentence examples for merely deepened the from inspiring English sources

A recent media storm merely deepened the trauma, he said.

It merely deepened the sense of crisis on the race after the Italian Cristian Moreni of the Cofidis team had been declared positive for testosterone in a random test carried out last Friday.

Escalating a war that can't be won doesn't improve the odds; it merely deepens the catastrophe.

Often, it merely deepens the sense of division in themselves: the private world seems more incommunicable than ever, the public world more daunting and hostile.

Despite an increasingly thunderous chorus of complaints that Zimbabwe's presidential runoff election will be neither free nor fair, the African National Congress, South Africa's governing party, rejected outside diplomatic intervention on Tuesday, arguing that "any attempts by outside players to impose regime change will merely deepen the crisis".

"The recent barrage of corruption allegations... appears to have had little impact on Erdogan's electoral popularity, merely deepening the political divides in an already highly polarized society," said Wolfango Piccoli, managing director of research firm Teneo Intelligence.

It just deepens the story.

It will only deepen the crisis".

The answer that those closest to him offered merely deepened his angst.

The fact that Pogrebnyak had scored two of the four goals against the Germans would merely have deepened the Rangers manager's relief at his unavailability.

All of which merely deepens a dilemma.