Sentence examples for merely preserved from inspiring English sources

Havlicek's play merely preserved a 1-point lead.

Donald C. Alexander, a former I.R.S. commissioner who is lobbying for Bechtel, said the provision to help his client merely preserved a tax break that the engineering conglomerate would have otherwise lost.

So far, the Government has merely preserved a big, beneficient silence concerning its intentions in regard to the aid that J. Arthur Rank, the chaiman of the Odeon Theatres Group, has suggested it should extend forthwith.

Researchers have now used the approach to resurrect the teeth and recognize the carcass of a 50-million-year-old fossil of a lizard, long thought to be merely preserved remnants of skin shed from the reptile.

To separate "America" from Mr. Bush in order to welcome him merely preserves an illusion.

And her work was all the trickier because, at least in the past, royal archivists have often seen their role as not merely preserving documents but burying material deleterious to the interests of the throne.

The problem, though, is when stability becomes stasis and it merely preserves the old economic and political order, in which prosperity has proved to be the most difficult thing to share.

Failing to build an antiballistic missile system for fear of another arms race merely preserves the outdated cold-war paradigm until the inevitable day when the bomb is used again.

Your complacent humanist will no doubt remain unmoved, confident that if the savage mind was necessarily alert it was wasting its keenness on the singularly unprofitable end of merely preserving the savage body.

General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, added that the Defence Department's review merely preserves for the president the options he might need "in case this country or our friends and allies were attacked with weapons of mass destruction, be they nuclear, biological, chemical or, for that matter, high explosives".But are those options changing?

As both human and ecological problems become ever more pressing, the new millennium is witnessing an emerging environmentalism that moves beyond merely preserving pristine wilderness and also calls for clean air and water as human rights as well as environmental necessities.