Sentence examples for merely essential from inspiring English sources

LONDON — President Obama's state visit here prompted a lot of neurotic agonizing over whether British-American ties are still special or merely essential and, if so, how.

Again following Smith, he stresses that market freedoms are not merely essential for prosperity but also, like other freedoms, ends in themselves.

Such open communication is not merely essential to building trust within the physician-patient relationship, but also ensures that doctors have enough information to provide quality care.

What could happen to make the Traverse not merely good but essential?

The argument is that older Americans are healthier than ever and working longer, so raising the retirement age may not merely be justifiable, but essential to protect this all-important retirement program.

We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

On the Telegraph Web site, Peter Foster parsed the syntax of the Washington Post article, writing, "We Brits could take umbrage at the use of that indefinite article — so, no longer 'the' special relationship, but merely 'an' essential one, but in truth, there can be no point in denying that the world has moved on since 1945".

In general, XE is merely an essential Hilbert C*-bimodule.

However, there is a good deal of evidence supporting a counter-hypothesis in which calcium does not itself encode specificity but is merely an essential 'switch' in signaling.

This is in contrast to other literature in this area, which merely listed essential functions or physiotherapy student skills [ 15, 25, 26, 35].

Commanders insist they are not planning a permanent American presence, but merely carrying out essential repairs to runways, ramps, storage depots, and air field lighting to better serve current operations.