Sentence examples for merely minor from inspiring English sources

As a result of such studies, those objects went from being merely "minor" planets to becoming small worlds in their own right.

Commissioners and college presidents bristle at suggestions that colleges are merely minor leagues for the N.F.L., but Goodell's action toward Pryor simply validates the bedroom relationship.

They want to see the system's flaws, imperfections, and ongoing crisis – stressed by capitalism's critics – as merely minor and passing irritations.

Jack Keane, the former army vice chief of staff and an architect of the surge, told a Senate panel on Thursday that the specter of the Rumsfeld Pentagon, which for years insisted the Iraq occupation faced merely minor difficulties, had returned.

Although some are merely minor injuries, many of them can compromise the final outcome and can cause major difficulties for simultaneously treating the fracture and the soft-tissue injuries [ 7– 9, 29].

However, much of this flair merely conceals minor statistic changes.

"What we are experiencing is not merely some minor or subtle improvement.

Desperate not to see public confidence undermined further, the White House insisted that he had merely had minor dental treatment.

Although what had happened was a catastrophe for me, for them it was merely another minor crime that would never be solved.

The implication is that Aaliyah was on the cusp of becoming a cosy all-round family entertainer for whom music was merely a minor concern.

But in Ms. Zahorian, a principal who has risen through the troupe's ranks, Act II mannerisms were merely a minor problem.