Sentence examples for merely for doing from inspiring English sources

"Yashar Soltani is in jail merely for doing his job as a journalist and is now in Evin prison for revealing corruption in the municipality under Ghalibaf," tweeted one Iranian.

But a fund management source said investors were unhappy about the increases because they reward CRH bosses merely for doing deals and said the company's consultation with shareholders was lacking.

The suggestion that Arpaio was convicted merely for "doing his job" is a statement inherently targeted at undermining trust in one of our branches of government.

What's more likely is that these children and others like them, who are scolded, shamed, and suspended merely for doing what children do will now feel anxious, powerless, and vulnerable.

"It's simply outrageous that Trump's Justice Department is still attempting to prosecute two journalists for felonies merely for doing their job and covering a protest". Freedom of the Press Foundation, a nonprofit that protects journalists, told me in a statement.

Mr. Andrew admits it sounds a bit Big Brotherish, but he insists that these are merely new tools for doing old-fashioned shoe-leather campaigning in the digital age.

There is no place in our constitutional scheme for the philosophy that the business of the federal courts is correcting constitutional errors, and that "cases and controversies" are at best merely convenient vehicles for doing so, and, at worst, nuisances that may be dispensed with when they become obstacles to that transcendent endeavor.

Implicit in the foregoing is the philosophy that the business of the federal courts is correcting constitutional errors, and that "cases and controversies" are, at best, merely convenient vehicles for doing so, and, at worst, nuisances that may be dispensed with when they become obstacles to that transcendent endeavor.

Deficits were merely the excuse for doing so.

The problem has been intensified by many attempts beginning with Kant's treatise on religion, Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft (1793; Religion Within the Boundary of Pure Reason)—to interpret religion as essentially morality or merely as an incentive for doing one's duty.

But the true, original, now dying achievement of the Revolution of 1776 was reigning in the coercive power entirely, with the vote merely as one mechanism for doing so.