Sentence examples for merely to apply from inspiring English sources

To be against jailing people for such offences is not to condone what they do, merely to apply some sense of proportion.

Hammond insisted that no one wanted to cause any more pain for the people of Iran and made clear that the aim was not regime change; it was merely to apply as much pressure as necessary to force Iran to drop its nuclear programme.

As I shall discuss in some detail, the only thing that can possibly mean in the context of this case is that this court has the power, not merely to apply the Constitution but to expand it, imposing what it regards as useful prophylactic restrictions upon Congress and the states.

As such, these recommendations for PPE against the entire array of potential risk factors lead to cumbersome and likely ineffective PPE for students learning to live-trap small mammals and field workers wishing merely to apply an eartag and release the animal.

The number that merely pretend to apply "know your customer" and other anti-laundering rules is thought to be in the dozens.

Why do the principles of humanity so beautifully enshrined in the Olympic Charter merely seem to apply to the way we play, run and swim against each other, and not the way we do business or politics?

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.

"Now they are being asked what they think the law should be, and not merely how to apply the law as it exists," said Michael Dorf, a Cornell University law professor.

Mr. Li, the university student who studies China's political economy, said Ms. Meng's case had divided students on campus, with some from mainland China tending to sympathize with her plight and others viewing her arrest as Canada merely trying to apply the rule of law.

It merely seeks to apply yet another Band-Aid to the illness.

Member states and other stakeholders are therefore merely encouraged to apply the Code to their national practices, and compliance to the Code is hardly monitored or enforced.