Sentence examples for merely professional from inspiring English sources

At daily briefings in recent days, senior American officials are now characterizing the Yemeni cooperation as merely "professional".

Other skeptics note that confidentiality -- a legal duty for physicians and therapists -- is merely professional etiquette for hairdressers.

A remarkably fit-looking 63-year-old, she is an impressive figure in more ways than the merely professional.

True, all his work feels merely professional and efficient; but there's much he knows about dance-making that several far better choreographers have never learned.

The contact between the Tory leader and the likes of Michael Gove, the education secretary and an ex-Times journalist, are not merely professional but also social.

The problem with an unstructured and democratic lite, such as our own, is that, in a time of fractured structures and a mutation of values, obligation and duty are merely professional.

He said he was probably the only professional dilettante in his field who has merely an M.D. degree.

"So, Petraeus is a lying politician - what else is news?" But the point is that while Petraeus acts like a lying politician, he is treated by the mainstream media as if he were beyond politics, above criticism, merely a professional military man giving his neutral, unbiased, impartial professional military advice.

The provided care is limited merely by professional norms following the "usual care" principle (appropriateness according to professional standards).

Control isn't merely a professional concern for Mr. Fallon, who says he doesn't drink or do drugs (though he does smoke cigarettes).

In 2004, Judge Gregory A. Presnell of Federal District Court in Orlando said in a written opinion in favor of a business owner: "Plaintiff's testimony left the distinct impression that he is merely a professional pawn in an ongoing scheme to bilk attorney's fees from defendant".