Sentence examples for merely to throw from inspiring English sources

The strategic result of these unplanned German offensives was merely to throw the French back onto a fortified barrier that both restored and augmented their power of resistance.

Barely a tenth are pure swing voters, and these are classic "referendum" types who merely decide to throw the bums out when things go wrong.

There was no malice, it was just a case of a League Two striker being made to look a little lumbering by a superior defender – come on, Liverpool's defence isn't that bad – and Akinfenwa was merely trying to throw his considerable weight around, without ever looking like he was going to cause a serious injury.

We who have seen whole nations, ethnic and religious groups targeted for the sake of corporate gain, who have watched arrogance and ignorance dance wildly down the isle of capital sanctuary, while soldiers like yourself are merely expected to throw rice and bombs.

Thus far, Sprint and AT&T are the only carriers to throw out specific dates, while T-Mobile has merely said the phone will launch this "fall".

Is it too much to hope that this battle may be a turning point in the war over corporate ethics, and that it will cease to be enough merely for an NGO to throw mud at a company, to have that mud stick?

He actually pretty much stuck to his promise not to punch (merely to counterpunch), and most of the others just seemed afraid to throw anything Trump's way.

Is it too much to hope that this battle might mark a turning-point in the war over corporate ethics, and that it will cease to be enough merely for a pressure group to throw mud at a company to make that mud stick?

Wrestling events provide viewers not just with a spectacle (baseball players merely hit a round object; wrestlers get to throw lightning) but also with a soap opera.

Try to position yourself so that you merely have to pull your arm back to throw, rather than having to turn your body.

They tried to throw our coal miners a bone and merely extended their health care benefits by a couple of months".