Sentence examples for merely stopped from inspiring English sources

Even so, the government did not actually shrink under Reagan; it merely stopped growing.

Meanwhile, Kosovo's protectors would rejoice if Albanians and Serbs merely stopped killing each other; a wave of anti-Serb violence in March was a severe setback.

Then, in 2010, Theresa May reacted to police pressure by scrapping completely the written record for those merely stopped, as part of her fight against bureaucracy.

Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, a consumer psychologist at Anglia Ruskin University, points to the subtleties of the switch: we haven't stopped going to shops; We've merely stopped shopping in them.

In 2007 the United States exported $21.7 billion-worth of scrap; if current trends continue that figure could fall by half, or worse.Adding insult to injury, a Baltimore County executive says that metal thefts have merely stopped increasing; they have yet to decline.

"The work is telling us that these [melanocyte] stem cells don't have an infinite capacity for self-renewal," says geneticist Ian Jackson of the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, U.K. If the cells merely stopped working, preventing gray hair would be relatively straightforward, he says: "We could turn them back on".

It is not as simple as merely stopping Ronaldo, of course.

Patrol members cannot make arrests but merely stop cyclists going in the wrong direction & encourage them to turn around.

The focus shifted from merely stopping the expropriation of inner-city neighbourhoods to challenging its very approach to planning.

But like consumers, terrorists may not merely stop buying a product, they may buy a cheaper substitute.

One bill would have made it a crime for police officers to shoot to kill a suspect instead of shooting to merely stop the person.