Sentence examples for merely to support from inspiring English sources

Chocolate cake with pistachios will please those who like the combination, although we suspect pistachios were added merely to support the restaurant's color scheme.

Instead, Mr. Sharpton said he would be satisfied if Mr. Ferrer pledged merely to support "qualified black candidates" in the fall elections.

To bolster his case, Osborne used evidence the way a drunk uses lampposts – not for illumination, merely to support him in his excesses.

Where the great strength of "Night" is the identification of author and subject, "The Judges" has a contrived situation that exists merely to support all sorts of philosophical speculations about life and death and good and evil, rather than providing a context where the characters can breathe and develop.

It turns crowdfunding from something where you buy merely to support your passion into something you also buy because you speculate that lots of people will be passionate about it, therefore increasing the value when you buy early.

PCT was used merely to support the diagnosis of bacterial infection, but it exhibited no discriminative power for the prediction of mortality in early sepsis.

Passengers are persuaded that rules and regulations will oblige airlines to do their duty, but they are merely ammunition to support your case in court should you be forced down that route.

He merely seeks to support the Sisi regime – which is estimated to have killed more than 2,500 protesters and jailed more than 20,000 over the past year.

The disagreements on Thursday centered on whether the Council was actually endorsing the political transition sought by the Arab League, or whether it was merely agreeing to support the Arab League's work in carrying out the plan.

In fact, he doesn't go for big, named threats, doom-calling, dread-provoking, but two things trouble him: "The biggest handicap that conservation faces is that we humans still consider ourselves to be separate from the rest of life, and the rest of life is merely there to support us.

Until George Mason University proves that we do not merely exist to support Koch's private interests by disclosing all previous donor agreements with the Koch Foundation, we can continue to assume that our university is being guided by the invisible hand of Charles Koch.