Sentence examples for merely pay from inspiring English sources

They thought of her as a friend and neighbor and counsellor as someone to worry about, and worry with, more than someone to merely pay the blank tribute of "admiration". She had no mere "admirers," really, though her friends and fans, in this American neighborhood alone, ran from Jane Hirshfeld and Billy Collins to Woody Allen.

They shouldn't merely pay it lip service now.

They determine whether we'll uphold our values or merely pay them lip service.

In New Jersey, for example, candidates merely pay a filing fee.

In an era when many companies merely pay lip service to 'fair trade' issues, it was an important story.

To merely pay a tax-deductible fine that is nowhere comparable to the losses incurred by innocent buyers is, in itself, a miscarriage of justice.

Merely paying taxes doesn't cut it.

They merely paid a small entrance fee.

Modernists merely paid negative homage by breaking that tradition.

You're merely paying tribute to Ronald Coase's ingenuity.

They say the Hungarian government, like its neighbours, merely pays lip-service to integration.