Sentence examples for merely matters from inspiring English sources

The prohibition of gambling and usurious interests rates are not merely matters of private choice but must be applied to global finance in the public interest.

We knew that the most important video games were not merely matters of technology or neuromuscular coordination, but of finding new ways to explore and think about both human relationships and the wider world around us.

On the contrary, it's the unexamined attitudes and assumptions — things that people take to be merely matters of manners or taste, and nothing so consequential as political positions — that need critical attention.

All sciences are merely matters of opinion (ch. 1), and they are neither good nor bad in themselves but only in the way they are used.

And they were all understood to be questions of power and democratic accountability, not merely matters of growth or efficiency.

But we have learned that our past and our natural world are not merely matters for scientific inquiry to be explained by professors through lectures and field studies.

The facts don't merely matter.

Hughes says that: "litter is merely matter out of place.

To adapt the anthropologist Mary Douglas's classic formulation of dirt, litter is merely matter out of place.

For Ponty, the flesh that underlies the same corporeality is not merely matter but neither is spirit.

In this passage, Sagan explicitly states that even if humans are "merely matter," we still can find purpose, but it must be one that we work out for ourselves.