Sentence examples for merely echoing the from inspiring English sources
Rijkaard was merely echoing the words of his coaching mentor Johan Cruyff whose opinion, as a national icon, has dictated Holland's attitude to penalties more than anything else.
However, he was merely echoing the sentiments of Ken Livingstone, who in 1984 claimed that the Board of Deputies was organising "paramilitary groups which resemble fascist organisations".
In large part, Kerry was merely echoing the warnings from Olmert and Barak, and using them to support his optimism that, despite recent setbacks, a two-state solution will eventually be reached.
When Mr. Frémaux, announcing the 2012 lineup at a news conference in April, declared last year's festival a "triumph," he was merely echoing the assessments of many in the film press and industry.
But only three months ago the same Sadr City pamphleteers were lampooning Mr. Maliki as half-man, half-parrot, merely echoing the words of his more powerful Shiite and American backers.
So when, while defending his attendance in European parliament debates, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said on Friday's Daybreak: "I work an 18-hour day most days and I think I'm entitled at lunchtime to a pint," he was merely echoing the sentiment of his forebears.
In so many respects, the IPL merely echoes the dominant culture.
It's shocking in its directness, with searing orchestral writing that never stoops to merely echo the terrible story.
In too many musicals the music and lyrics merely echo the book or vice versa, but a great pleasure of She Loves Me is in how the songs deepen and sometimes even contradict the conversation.
Jimmy's "badly written" notes and his "poorly explained" framework merely echo the original accounts, which consist of bizarre anecdotes in which truth is lost in the "Chinese whispers" of their telling.
He says: Judging from the Health Secretary's brittle response to the Royal College of Nursing's call for minimum nursing levels on wards (which merely echo the Francis public inquiry recommendations), the Laddy is not for turning, perhaps inspired by the memory of Maggie.
