Sentence examples for merely supposed to from inspiring English sources

We're merely supposed to enjoy feelings of vague benevolence.

They're merely supposed to tell consumers when the producer believes the products will reach their peak quality.

He was merely supposed to simulate an opponent's plays for the Bulldogs' first-team defense, but he did not grasp the concept.

The Parlements, the major courts of the nation, were dismantled and replaced by a unified system of courts that were merely supposed to apply the law and never to lay down general rules.

They argue that Putnam's "just more theory" talk is merely supposed to highlight the theoretical inadequacy of several particular theories of reference; it's not supposed to provide a general argument of the type sketched above (Anderson 1993; Douven 1999; Haukioja 2001).

(This is one of Rand's reasons for rejecting the idea of a divine creator as the cause of the universe; though it is a matter of dispute whether this objection works if such a creator is merely supposed to be responsible for the existence of everything other than itself).

I don't pick this merely because guys are supposed to be car lovers, but because this is the kind of video game that will get a non-game-playing dad into the gaming world.

Today's action movies — with pretensions to deep-thinking, and filled with rueful and angry superheroes or geopolitical conflicts that attempt to mirror the fragmented realities of the War on Terror world — demand a more serious treatment, and those thunderous musical cues seem handed down to remind us that even frivolous popcorn movies aren't supposed to merely be fun anymore.

CNN got a hold of him and relayed his response: apparently it was "not intended to be a factual statement" and was supposed to merely illustrate that Planned Parenthood subsidizes abortions.

What was supposed to be merely a bail hearing took on the proportions of a full-blown trial, with sharp questions from the presiding magistrate, Desmond Nair, and a withering cross-examination that left the prosecution's main witness, Detective Hilton Botha, grasping for answers that did not contradict his earlier testimony.

But Yuval Steinitz, a Likud leader in the Israeli Parliament, said that Israel was merely getting what it was supposed to gain from the Oslo accords of 1993 and 1995 -- an end to terrorism -- while the Palestinians were receiving far more: full statehood, without explicit curbs on an eventual military force.