Sentence examples for merely efforts from inspiring English sources

This mindset allows for no fundamental challenging of globalisation, merely efforts to make it kinder and gentler.

These are probably merely efforts to make the Yukos affair seem part of an equitable policy, rather than a personal vendetta, as a way of drawing a line under the sorry, destructive saga.

Clinton administration officials described these programs as a way to test whether the Iraqi National Congress could function as an effective political organization, but critics say they were merely efforts to appease conservative critics in Congress who wanted stronger action.

In an interview, Ms. Mason said the changes were merely efforts to streamline operations as part of a new strategic plan for the agency that includes new mission and vision statements.

At the time, I would have insisted that my rituals of self-abuse – drinking, pills, the impulse to put my body in danger in ways I now know were deliberate – were merely efforts to escape; that I was contending, however clumsily, with the overwhelming despair at the absence of God.

Alito simply said that the parties could not prove that they were subject to surveillance – since the Obama administration has classified such evidence – and insisted that their fears and precautionary actions are merely efforts to "manufacture standing by incurring costs in anticipation of non-imminent harms".

Some critics think these are merely cosmetic efforts that do not address the real problem, however.

Although Lincoln undertook such measures with greater secrecy than during the previous year, we shouldn't downplay these official actions as merely "private" efforts.

But if fracked gas merely displaces efforts to develop cleaner, non-carbon, energy sources without decreasing reliance on coal, the doom and gloom of more rapid global climate change will be realized.

To counter this tendency, the report recommended that the BBC "should make purposive, and not merely reactive, efforts to explain the complexities of the conflict in the round, including the marked disparity between the position of the two sides".

We did not incorporate such checks into this study, but think that integration of various such metrics would be possible with the same set-up, yielding valuable insights for decision makers in healthcare that may not be possible with merely manual efforts.