Sentence examples for merely interests from inspiring English sources

A former colleague of Johnson's once said that like Palmerston, he had not friends but merely interests.

Mr Wright said: "It seems that those interested in the fruits of this research appeared merely interested in a one-way flight.

"I'm merely interested in the scientific advances we can make from these things," he said.

Robert Skidelsky, Keynes's biographer, thought that he lacked "the theoretical brilliance, or perhaps merely interest".

"For the student merely interested in getting a degree, Kelly has nothing to offer," says a colleague, Michael Watkins.

We also explained that there were no right or wrong answers and that we were merely interested in participants' honest impressions.

Hence the SFO spokesperson's point about regulations as a way to protect people, rather than merely "entrenched interests".

Prose is foremost, and "if the prose isn't there, then you're reduced to what are merely secondary interests, like story, plot, characterisation, psychological insight and form".

These associations appear to be about merely private interests and about 'private-private partnership' as no government party seems to be involved at all.

Since this question is of merely historical interest, we'll assume, for the sake of convenience, that according to MOTo the first interpretation is the correct one and leave the more complex interpretation for later (see section 5.2).

NBC merely expressed interest; Viacom could yet bid.