Sentence examples for merely retained from inspiring English sources

Berezovsky says he and Abramovich were partners in Sibneft, later sold to Gazprom for $13bn; Abramovich insists he merely retained Berezovsky because of his top-level Kremlin contacts and influence with Yeltsin.

This reignites a long-standing debate over whether this upright species still spent much time in the trees or merely retained ancient features it no longer used (Science, 15 April 1994, p. 350), says co-author William Kimbel of Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins in Tempe, Arizona, who thinks the features were not necessarily used for climbing.

Ownership & operation of the airlines is exactly what it was before the war; the government merely retains the right to say who the passengers shall be on any given flight.

Sandusky, who had retired two years before but retained an office and privileges on campus, was merely told not to take boys onto campus any longer.

The Christian Institute thinks that Section 28 should not merely be retained, but extended to bring health authorities within its ambit.The repealers argue that Section 28 should go because it is a bad law.

He asks his players not merely to retain the ball but also to transfer it forward quickly.

Its scientists say they do not wish to use great apes, merely to retain the option.

Following some interpassing designed merely to retain possession in the hope of finding a breach in the United defence, the ball was fed out to Chris Burke on the right.

Note too that it is not enough merely to retain the name "modus ponens"; it is the rule itself that becomes modified within non-traditional logics).

Whereas Boito tried to follow Shakespeare's language, Berio retained merely the outlines of the story.

38– 40 Possibly, epigenetic memory is retained merely at early passages, while full reprogramming including its loss may be a continuing process.