Sentence examples for merely to please from inspiring English sources

But relations with America are strong and she will not want to risk them merely to please China.

In China, it is not enough merely to please the masses.China's television business has developed largely in isolation from the rest of the world.

His books seem not merely to please but to cast a spell over readers who are receptive to them, which tends to dull their critical faculties; whereas others remain mysteriously unmoved and ask what all the fuss is about.

He criticized al-Fārābī and Avicenna also for accommodating the theologians of their time and for departing from the path of the ancient philosophers merely to please the theologians.

But it's a different experience setting out not merely to please but to delight a child with a cake that only you can make, one that can find you rolling up your sleeves and becoming a cake wrangler, determined to make that firehouse, caterpillar or Pokémon concoction.

It does mean to stop adopting policies that have nothing whatsoever to do with American interests, values or national consensus but are merely designed to please some domestic constituency.

He sits in the middle of a Venn diagram of deep house, techno, disco and electro, but not by merely trying to please everyone – he instead sees potential transcendence everywhere he looks.

As a result of such cases, it's come to be accepted that children give false accounts mainly because adults ask them leading questions: suggestible youngsters are merely trying to please their elders.

This attitude shifts the blame from society, where it belongs, onto innocent children who are merely finding ways to please their role models and caretakers.

In Butt's employ, Fazal observes that the pressure on Pakistani farmers to stop growing opium is merely an exhibition to please the British government.

This has been the major legislative drama of the past few days, and it's anybody's guess whether the hard-liners are serious about blocking leadership's bill ― even if that means blowing up the whole repeal effort ― or whether they're merely posturing in order to please their supporters, and perhaps gain leverage for future negotiations.