Sentence examples for merely grant from inspiring English sources

Of course, it's not enough for a game to merely grant players freedom of choice.

Ms. Cholodenko doesn't merely grant every member of the family breathing room and believable complications, she extends that courtesy to Mr. Ruffalo's character, Paul.

"Asher doesn't merely grant privilege to the art idea over the art object," wrote Christopher Knight, the art critic for The Los Angeles Times, about a 2008 show at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, in which Mr. Asher reconstituted the bare aluminum studs for the walls built for all 44 previous exhibitions in the museum.

The Annan 'peace' plan — which President Obama still supports — has merely granted the Assad regime more time to execute its military onslaught.

"The Annan 'peace' plan — which President Obama still supports — has merely granted the Assad regime more time to execute its military onslaught," the Romney statement said.

Voodoo is one of the official religions of Haiti, and its designation in 2003 merely granted official acknowledgment to a longstanding reality.

In Antarctica, his authority was not official but merely granted, and he had no more experience as a polar explorer than his peers did.

(Although, as historians have pointed out, the Manhansetts and other tribes did not understand the European concept of ownership; they thought they were merely granting access to the land and the water, which no one, in their view, could own).

What Munby appears to be saying is that judgments must be transcribed and published unless they are unlikely to be of any public interest – for example, if the judge merely grants an adjournment.

But the court ignores these possibilities by holding that merely granting the student body the power to elect a speaker that may choose to pray, "regardless of the students' ultimate use of it, is not acceptable".

Anything donated to the order, such as a house or a piece of land, strictly speaking remained the property of the original owner (who merely granted the use of it to the Franciscans).