Sentence examples for merely to call from inspiring English sources

During the Salman Rushdie affair 17 years ago, angry Muslims were content merely to call for the death of the allegedly blasphemous author and his publishers.

Intending to print and sell books and pamphlets, he began on January 1 , 1785 to publish a newspaper, the Daily Universal Register, merely to call attention to his printing process and his other publications.

To question Gone Girl's gender politics is either to take it too seriously or not seriously enough; amid the range of readings it has prompted since October, is it acceptable merely to call it tidy entertainment with two game leads?

They appear to have retreated from this demand, which Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute, a think-tank, likens to a union threatening not merely to call a strike but to blow up the factory unless it gets what it wants.

However, this a view that Soble (1997) derides: merely to call it a paradox, as Solomon does, is not to face up to the problem.

But it is not enough merely to call or our leaders in Washington.

Arsenal are five points ahead of Louis van Gaal's side but Manchester United have a game in hand and the Frenchman's critics are using the resultant nervousness as a chance not merely to carp but to call for him to be replaced this summer.

Mr. Huang, a longtime activist, merely tried to call attention to the problem, she said.

When he arrived he said he had merely come to call.

A papal decree issued Oct. 11 sets a retirement age of 75 but it fails to make retirement automatic, merely urging bishops to call it quits at that age.

By Xavier Rynne The New Yorker, October 22, 1966 P. 140 A papal decree issued Oct. 11 sets a retirement age of 75 but it fails to make retirement automatic, merely urging bishops to call it quits at that age.