Sentence examples for merely to take from inspiring English sources

People had themselves arrested for debt merely to take advantage of it.

The simplest and best defense against this is merely to take the average of the polls.

Granted that he did it merely to take the play away from the Social Democratic Party founded by Marx and Engels.

Apple doesn't really need to invent anything, merely to take an idea and make the very best product associated with it.

For Mr. Combs and all the other hip-hop capitalists, the object isn't merely to take, but to avoid being tooken.

He had also failed to grasp the larger point of his own life: not merely to take Labour from defeat to victory, but also to prove how powerful the human spirit could be, faced with death.

It enables them to develop what Lipsitz called "the emotional resilience and resourcefulness required to live alone" — and not merely to live alone but to take pleasure in doing so.

One is not merely taking tea to satisfy hunger, but to take time to converse and enjoy the company of close friends.

The 192 nations gathered at the Copenhagen climate meeting did not formally adopt the accord, but merely voted to "take note" of it.

She doesn't merely "forget" to take her pill.

And Havel did not merely want to take Lou "as a guest to Bill Clinton's White House".