Sentence examples for merely succeeded from inspiring English sources

So far Mr Moreno has merely succeeded in drawing attention to his own mendacity.

As it dropped, poor Kenny's outstretched hand merely succeeded in pushing the ball over the line.

(Hitler, as Snowman tartly remarks, had hoped to extirpate cosmopolitan culture, but merely succeeded in disseminating it more widely).

But the attritional battle between the two, which ended at the final race in Adelaide when Mansell's tyre exploded, merely succeeded in handing the title to Alain Prost.

He rejects arguments about the "civilizing process" by pointing out that people didn't necessarily intend to murder one another more often in the premodern world; they merely succeeded more often.

But there has been a miscalculation: the strategy may have merely succeeded in driving certain behaviors further underground in this socially conservative country with close ties to American evangelicals.

The discussion merely succeeds in convincing me that this literary tour de force might be suitable for Guinness's Book of Records, but would likely be a boring read.

Such moments of recognition, by individuals or small groups, have helped to decide not merely who succeeds but at what.

Mark Zuckerberg told me, "When Marc started Andreessen Horowitz, I asked him why he didn't start another company instead, and he said, 'It would be like going back to kindergarten.' " A16z was designed not merely to succeed but also to deliver payback: it would right the wrongs that Andreessen and Horowitz had suffered as entrepreneurs.

Summary: For companies that don't want merely to succeed in their industries but to lead them, continual business transformation is a must.

For companies that don't want merely to succeed in their industries but to lead them, continual business transformation is a must.