Sentence examples for merely pursued from inspiring English sources

In 1995, the Federal Labor Court of Germany decided that the Church of Scientology merely pursued commercial aims and did not represent a religious or worldview community entitled to protection under Article 4 of the German Constitution, although another decision by the same court left the question open again in 2003.

But going abroad does not mean abandoning his domestic agenda, merely pursuing it through other means.

This separates them from people who are merely pursuing a personal grievance.

Mr. Gerard insists his union is merely pursuing its rights under trade rules.

I'm merely pursuing a subject I raise more regularly than anyone else in parliament.

Was it executing a plan based on Communist faith in world revolution, or reflecting the need of the regime for foreign enemies to justify domestic terror, or merely pursuing the traditional aims of Russian imperialism?

But this time, they're saving it not from predatory outsiders but from a creature of their own making, an avatar of military technology that merely pursues its built-in mission to its logical conclusion.

We still live with language and institutions and rules derived from a world in which people are either doing good or doing well, either solving collective problems or merely pursuing a buck.

With the development of the Aibo, Sony, the maker of the $1,600 robot, is merely pursuing a theme it first developed in 1979 with the first Walkman: portable, mood-enhancing companionship.

On almost every page there is an observation as thwacking as this one: "To propose that anorexics are merely exploring an identity is as morally lax as accepting the belief of gang members that they are merely pursuing an identity that happens to entail killing people".

But the wealthy are forced to conclude that their unhappiness might be more difficult to solve than merely pursuing the next pay rise.Perhaps the reason we stubbornly refuse to see that money is not the solution to all our problems is that this would deeply threaten the rationale underlying most of our busy lives.