Sentence examples for merely to qualify from inspiring English sources

The Henry episode has cast a shadow over the team's desperate efforts merely to qualify for the postseason when it was expected to be one of the top teams in the league.

Now they're battling merely to qualify for the playoffs after both significantly changing their looks.

At the highest level, a hero is a mensch, but to qualify, one need merely be a good person.

The drug bill was advertised as targeting "kingpins," but to qualify for execution, the defendant merely needed to lead a group of five people and make the minimum wage in drug proceeds.

"I just wanted to qualify.

Goulash inverts the traditional hierarchy of stew and meat, with short ribs hulking in a pool so shallow as to qualify merely as sauce.

On an afternoon when Wayne Bennett's side had merely to avoid defeat to qualify for the Four Nations final – against the same opponents – the fact that they trailed by four points at half-time to a team who had barely got out of first gear was an ominous warning of what would follow.

A symphony isn't just a structure, a musical formula, or a set of containers - three or four movements of contrasting speeds and characters - that composers merely had to fill in to qualify as "symphonic" writers.

In Italy, they merely strengthened the country's determination to qualify for the euro.

But to his opponents, merely accepting that America has imperfections seems to qualify as heresy.

A narcissist merely needs to feel like a million bucks to qualify as a millionaire.