Sentence examples for merely define from inspiring English sources

But unless it is used to develop, rather than merely define, character, such language doesn't take you far.

Numbers crunchers can merely define the fatal circle.

My premise is that we should not merely define this additional phase of adulthood, but also look at what people in this stage of life can offer to society.

To devotees, the designs of visionaries such as John Lautner, William F. Cody, Albert Frey and Donald Wexler didn't merely define a new architectural style; they represented the dawn of a new American lifestyle, one now lost, of casual sophistication, of cocktails on the lanai, of relaxed self-confidence.

Among the objections to its use raised by the Bush administration, which filed a brief in support of Unocal, is that the law merely defines jurisdiction for which court may hear a case.

The military council said yesterday it would hand over its powers to the elected president at the end of the month and denied it had attempted to carry out a coup but was merely defining what it called "a separation of powers".

It merely defines certain maximum values for the parameters specifying these intervals.

Who would host all of these cloud apps Apple or the developers themselves, with Apple merely defining how the services must work?

The statute merely defines "consumer" as "any renter, purchaser, or subscriber of goods or services from a video tape service provider".

Yahoo!'s boilerplate merely defines what Yahoo! is, not what it does: "A global Internet communications, commerce, and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to millions of worldwide users daily".

Nussbaum's conception of objectification, then, is broader than Kant/MacKinnon/Dworkin's because objectification for Nussbaum is not merely defined in terms of instrumentalisation, and also because it can take place when a person is only seen, but not treated, as an object (seen in one or more of the above seven ways that she mentions).