Sentence examples for merely occupy from inspiring English sources

In ways she means to and ways she doesn't, Bachmann doesn't merely occupy the spotlight.

And even "sustainable" biofuels merely occupy the space that other crops now fill, displacing them into new habitats.

The present data are not able to show whether TFB ions are transported into cells by NIS, or whether they merely occupy a binding site.

Second, compounds 1– 10 would be expected to be poor inhibitors of DHPS as observed because they lack the distal half and merely occupy the dimer interface without engaging loop7.

To down-modulate or otherwise merely occupy the CCR5 molecule, DCs were incubated for 4 h – during attachment to the filter – with the CCR5 ligand CCL5 (Fig S8 of Supporting Information) or the allosteric, non-competitive antagonist drug Maraviroc, respectively.

Béliveau made space instead of merely occupying it.

("I was merely occupying the president's time when his wife was away").

Driven back over the Greek frontier, the Allies were merely occupying the Salonika region by mid-December.

The whole house was his, and Guy merely occupied a small attic room that he had built.

The advantages of this system were the elimination of middlemen, who often oppressed villagers, and an assessment of the tax on land actually cultivated and not merely occupied.

In a market where no one's buying or selling, the challenge is to inhabit where we live rather than merely occupying it.