Sentence examples for merely engaged from inspiring English sources

In 2015, just before his arrest, Choudary claimed he was merely engaged in a "verbal jihad".

Human rights lawyers say the accused are innocent and were merely engaged in an academic discussion about events in Egypt.

Santorum is not merely engaged in a culture war, but "a spiritual war," as he called it four years ago.

The officer's lawyers have argued that their client was merely engaged in playing out dark fantasies on fetish Web sites that are used by thousands of people.

When I brought up the challenge to Angela Lignelli-Dipple, she pointed out that diagnostic radiologists aren't merely engaged in yes-no classification.

This is what makes the Pope's defenders so disingenuous when they insist that he was merely engaged in a "scholarly consideration of the relationship between reason and faith".

An association must merely engage in expressive activity that could be impaired in order to be entitled to protection.

Colin Kazim-Richards had claimed he was merely engaging in "banter" with the crowd at his former club, Brighton and Hove Albion, while playing at their ground for Blackburn Rovers.

You might say that Wilbon was merely engaging in a tactic familiar to any boxing fan: hyping the next big fight, using whatever claim is most convenient.

They are, they say, merely engaging in the vaunted American tradition of "free speech," which is what makes their activities "legal".

The studio offers classes that don't merely engage the senses but assault them from all angles, with the aid of electronic muscle-stimulation technology, or EMS.