Sentence examples for merely perhaps from inspiring English sources

But it also depicts the world that was an inextricable part of the rise of that genius, not merely — perhaps not even primarily — in the broader political circumstances that Firestone confronted but in the styles and the moods of the time.

The international community has pledged its commitment to basic education for every boy and girl by 2015, through the Education for All initiative (Dakar Framework for Action, 2000), but, "AIDS is making that not merely difficult, but perhaps impossible".

By transforming the killer into a celebrity, the press has not merely encouraged but perhaps driven him to strike again.

But perhaps merely asking is a way of drawing attention to the fact that they are sitting ducks.

It is merely conjecture but perhaps he was also mindful of the fact that this was a decision on which the match and possibly the series depended.

The presence of bathrooms in most of the houses and the remarkable system of covered drains indicate a strong concern for cleanliness that may have been related to concepts of ritual purity but perhaps merely to ideas of hygiene.

But perhaps merely being reminded of it can offer us a way to begin to reimagine ourselves and our culture in what feels like the endless (and endlessly suffocating) dusk of Sunday's massacre.

This was a further indication that the 'program' metaphor of heredity was not merely superficial, but perhaps had a deeper meaning.

But perhaps this merely delineates the basis of the i challenge more clearly.

But perhaps it was merely too soon.

"Merely" is perhaps a brutal way of putting it.