Sentence examples for merely prevented from inspiring English sources

But that merely prevented the number of governors from being cut to three, which would have produced a situation in which several key subcommittees at the central bank would have consisted of a single member.

The action was largely technical — it merely prevented the Fed's bond portfolio from shrinking — but it was also strongly symbolic as it signaled a growing concern about slowing recovery and the risk of deflation.

In another, from 1800, she confides that she must have drunk too much at a ball the night before; she danced 9 of the 12 dances, she said, and "was merely prevented from dancing the rest by the want of a partner".

IN the mid-1980s, when I was in college, what concerned and frustrated my peers and me was how few states had basic statutes forbidding discrimination against gay men and lesbians: laws that merely prevented someone from being denied a job or apartment on the basis of whom he or she loved.

It merely prevented a station from day after day presenting a single view without airing opposing views.

Scalia dissented from the opinion by Justice Kennedy, believing that Bowers had protected the right of the states to pass such measures, and that the Colorado amendment was not discriminatory, but merely prevented homosexuals from gaining favored status under Colorado law.

Here the aim is not merely preventing destruction but also stimulating construction.

Plan B One-Step does not cause abortion; it merely prevents pregnancy.

Doing that merely prevents (or more often delays) prices from finding the right level.

Comic Relief's new investment policy should "reflect its vision" and aim to "do good rather than merely preventing doing harm".

If it looks as if what the Tory right has done is merely prevent the bankers from being regulated, there will be a price to pay".