Sentence examples for merely to secure from inspiring English sources

They had aspired merely to secure a couple of the city's western neighborhoods, but they quickly reached the Tigris River, which snakes south through the middle of Mosul.

In the eyes of critics, Google is lying to itself about the desires of Chinese Internet users and collaborating with the Communist Party merely to secure a profitable market.

By contrast, Task Rabbit, in an effort to reassure users that not just anybody is unclogging their drain or hanging their curtains, performs background checks on applicants and requires them to undergo video interviews in which they must enumerate their skills — all this merely to secure a place on the five-thousand-person waiting list.

And lastly, exclusive rights are regularly used to block competitors through expensive legal battles instead of merely to secure funds for future research that could benefit society at large (cf. Sterckx [2005b]).

One Fourth of it will not Amount to 200 Bibles for each State; And as I am anxious merely to secure the sale of the Books, it will not be inconsistent with my views to allow a Moderate Credit".(14).

We merely need to secure the rights we already enjoy under international law.

Unlike past panics, or even the crash of 1987, the current credit turmoil has affected ordinary consumers who merely want to secure a mortgage or refinance a loan.

His party, Congress, had not merely failed to secure a majority at the general election: even the 17-strong rag-bag of a coalition it heads is in the minority.

Depending on whom you believe, Kidd is the victim of a migraine or is a disgruntled employee who claimed to be sick and was merely attempting to secure a contract extension or force a trade.

When Hortense comes to love Gilbert, the man she has married merely in order to secure entry to England, she knows that it would do no good to reveal that Michael Roberts was not her brother but her distant cousin – and that her love for him was certainly not that of a sister.

Europe also needs a common approach to managing its borders, which cannot be merely restricted to securing our frontiers.