Sentence examples for merely determines from inspiring English sources

"Anti-abduction" advocates argue that custody itself is not decided in a Hague case: the convention merely determines which country decides that issue — the child's habitual residence or the country to which the children were taken.

In particular, he wants to head off critics of mathematical psychology who argue that "mathematics merely determines quanta, whereas psychology deals primarily with qualities" (LPs [1850]: 29).

Critics claimed that situational crime prevention would displace rather than reduce crime because they assumed that opportunity merely determines the time and place of crime, but does not cause it.

Sometimes, this merely determines whether you come across as neutral, noble, or a jerk.

Rate of transfer in the population merely determines the speed with which the establishment occurs (how many generations).

Because you are merely determining your portfolio's overall emphasis, estimates are just as helpful.

Thus, the autopsy does more than merely determine the cause of death.

The final group game against Atlético Madrid, a daunting prospect when the section was drawn, will now merely determine the leadership of the section.

Rarity is not merely determined by the number of individuals in a species, it is also about how unusual that species is.

And for Mrs Kelo and her neighbours, it will "merely" determine whether they can continue to own the houses which some of them have lived in since they were born.

– The matter of attribution, as raised in the second to last paragraph, is a much broader science that merely determining the change in probability due to greenhouse-gas forcing….which is an inherently difficult and uncertain undertaking.