Sentence examples for merely the right from inspiring English sources

Acting may be alchemy, but creating sympathy, he said, requires merely the right mix of facial and cranial hair.

Can he really explain the beauty of Bach's music as merely the right combination of sound waves tickling his eardrums?

Muslims, Todd has written, found themselves pressured to defend not merely "the right, but the obligation, to commit blasphemy," as proof of their commitment to French secularism.

(The choice of room was not intended to carry any symbolism, aides said, but was merely the right size for the event).

Far be it from me to offer a liberation refresher course, but equality is not merely the right to be the same.

Trademarks are merely the right to indicate the origin of a product or service.Susan Scafidi of Fordham University School of Law in New York says that the judge sidestepped the important question by boiling the argument down to aesthetic functionality.

A corollary of corporate personhood is that corporations have the responsibilities, and not merely the rights and privileges, of citizens.

In his telling, the annexation of Crimea is merely the righting of past wrongs — the wrongs not only of Western countries but also of the Communist regime, of which he used to be part.

In 1969, Boyd and Wong [41] observed that it is sufficient to assume merely the right-upper semicontinuity of φ (without the monotonicity requirement on φ) and extended Browder's fixed point theorem by introducing the following family of control functions: Ψ = { φ : [ 0, ∞ ) → [ 0, ∞ ) : φ ( t ) < t  for each  t > 0  and  φ  is right-upper semicontinuous }.

He said he was "flattered" that his photograph had been compared to Renaissance art, but said he was merely "in the right place at the right time".

Freedom is conceptualized not merely as the right to act, but as the capability to act, the actual power to make choices [ 16- 19].