Sentence examples for merely rose from inspiring English sources

If conditions were implicit or soft (eg, if recipients were simply encouraged to take children to school), enrolment merely rose by 25%.

At one lecture in Boston, an informal one,...he merely rose, told a story about a Scotch woman, and sat down.

M&G says that if German bond yields merely rose back to the levels that prevailed at their previous trough, in 2012, when it was feared the euro might break up, investors would suffer a capital loss of 7%.

Kate took on progressively more responsibility at the corporation, and her income grew from $80,000 to well into six figures, while his merely rose from $45,000 to $65,000.

In contrast, anti IL-7 treatment of KO mice led to minimal increase in CD127 MFI in the above subset and expression of this molecule merely rose from a MFI of 210 236 at day 6 p.i. to a MFI of 251 260 at the later time point (Figure 5A).

And not merely rising, but standing tall, as tall as a crocus gets, quivering in a southerly breeze.

Even if profits could hold that share, they would merely rise in line with the economy, perhaps by 5-6% a year (including inflation).

In Germany, great bonfires are lit on Easter morning, and there and in hundreds of other places throughout the world get up early on Easter morning to watch the sun not merely rise but dance.

As it progresses, the thought does not merely "rise" but orbits outwards, away from self-centred desire: the building sense of relationship is reflected in the pronouns "I" and "she", which join as "we" in the last stanza.

"L'Enfant ("The Child")" (2005, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne) The ostensible street realism of the Belgian brothers' story of betrayal and crime doesn't merely rise to a Bressonian pitch of redemption — it poses Bressonian questions throughout and offers sharply modern, secular answers.

According to Lee Strickland, a former chief privacy officer of the C.I.A., prosecutors pressing espionage charges against Rosen and Weissman would have to prove that the information the two men gave to Gilon not merely was classified but rose to the level of "national-defense information," meaning that it could cause dire harm to the United States.