Sentence examples for merely power from inspiring English sources

William Polk's careful study of insurgencies, Violent Politics, should be essential reading for those who want to understand today's conflicts, and surely for planners, assuming that they care about human consequences and not merely power and domination.

Others see him as merely power-mad, even a Machiavellian killer.

** The hope, evidently, was to deflect charges of being merely power-hungry by inviting charges of being — on behalf of wealthy contributors — merely money-hungry.

House Republicans intend to follow the script later in the week, hoping to showcase passage of bankruptcy legislation and estate tax repeal as a counterpoint to Democratic charges that they are merely power-hungry.

That has long been the dream of certain labor leaders, some of them confirmed leftists, some of them merely power-hungry.

Or was the whole thing merely a power struggle between two powerful people?

"We are not merely transferring power," he said.

Hunter-Reay said he would be trying to win the race, not merely outrun Power.

The smaller gust merely made power, satellite and communications engineers pay attention for a few days.

Or does he merely claim power over them as an elementary male prerogative?

In politics, you need allies, institutions and multilateral approaches, not merely American power".