Sentence examples for merely preparing from inspiring English sources

Mr. Morris said he was merely preparing for a strike.

It was immediately clear that he was merely preparing the way for the return of Perón from exile.

Pushy parents and teachers obsessed with leagues tables would probably argue that homework for youngsters is merely preparing them for study later in life.

Merely preparing the president's daily intelligence briefing takes him five hours.It was partly to ease this burden that the DNI was created, in a package of reforms passed in December.

But this isn't nearly enough, and you have to hope that the president is now fully engaged in progressive energy policy and isn't merely preparing us for disappointment should he approve of Keystone XL.

But Evangelos Venizelos, the former finance minister who negotiated the country's debt deal with creditors and saw support for his socialist Pasok party crumble as a result, said Monday that the Spain deal showed European leaders were merely "preparing a firewall to deal with whatever happens in Greece".

She suggests that we don't permit the next generation to indulge in childhood so much as merely prepare them for adulthood "as if childhood were merely a waiting-room".

In a well-drained garden, mud season makes it easy to do your spading, whether you plant potatoes on Good Friday, as my uncle does, or merely prepare the earth for tomatoes to come.

Heidegger's famous essay does not indefinitely postpone such an encounter or even merely prepare for it to happen at some point in the future or in another of his works; he thinks he has prepared for it to happen in (or through) "The Origin of the Work of Art" itself.

This does not need to involve any kind of direct interaction between a Hox protein and ERα, but instead the Hox protein might merely prepare a promoter or enhancer for regulation by ERα.

The only things we see and hear from you are diplomatic circumlocutions of no importance, which merely prepare the way for the convocation of the EU - Turkey Council of Association.