Sentence examples for merely to accept from inspiring English sources

"This is the legacy of the prewar imperial system in which people were trained merely to accept and not to ask questions.

"She was content merely to accept praise for illustrating her husband's work," the historians Robert L. Herbert and Daria D'Arienzo write in "Orra White Hitchcock: An Amherst Woman of Art and Science" (Mead Art Museum).

We owe our strength to our political and economic system and to the way we educate our children — not merely to accept established orthodoxy but to challenge and improve it.

"Two maxims," Epictetus said, "we must ever bear in mind that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence".

A famous demonstration lies in the "ultimatum" experiment: two strangers are chosen, with a sum of money to be divided by one of them, however she chooses, while the other is merely to accept or reject her offer.

We are not asked to embrace the paintings themselves (the film remains agnostic about their artistic merit), merely to accept that their creator was sincere and deserves to be recognised as such.

Instead, at settlement it merely has to accept the cash difference between the market price and the price it has agreed to pay.

Candidates who have merely hesitated to accept the ordeal in the past when a handful of states were involved, now privately condemn it and express convictions that the system has become too costly, wearing and unpredictable to last.

The religious objectors, however, merely purport to accept the Court's proposal; in practice, they are standing by their insistance that affected women should be forced to seek and obtain second-class, contraception-only policies that will sever their reproductive care from the rest of their healthcare.

One merely needs to accept the idea that an individual can be conflicted in such a way that a reasonable representation of her belief state or belief and value state is in terms of sets of functions.

But Tom Maguire, Verizon's senior vice president for national operations support, said the company was not pressuring its New York customers outside of Fire Island to switch to Voice Link, merely encouraging them to accept what he said was superior technology.