Sentence examples for merely trained from inspiring English sources

If soldiers merely trained with numbered bull's-eyes, encountering real faces on the battlefield might prove too harrowing.

He views the champion as a manufactured fighter, someone not born to fight, but merely trained to do it.

"It became apparent to me that college merely trained people to work for somebody else," he says.

These were merely training races, Greene insisted, and today he erased all the uncertainty about his fitness.

Quite simply: universities need to stop merely training academics and instead start providing some of the jobs they have trained them for.

This raises the question as to whether peer-review can prepare the author for successful scientific publishing in general or merely trains them for a particular journal.

More specifically, instead of merely training teachers how to use particular software or online systems to create teaching materials for their flipped lessons, participants were offered a number of seminars and sharing sessions from the frontline teachers who are early-adopters or passionate experts of flipped teaching in Hong Kong.

Of course, Barcelona are always a major attraction, regardless of whether they are playing in a Clásico or merely training amongst themselves, but it is curious to note how their latest victory didn't register too highly on the Champions League richter scale of excitement.

Big firms no longer aspire merely to train competent managers.

The idea is to recruit what is in essence a local security force, but with a broad enough base to ensure that the government is not merely supplying, training and arming existing militias.

Compared to 2008, you didn't need to practise a flying 250 [metre time trial]." The issue, he says, is that merely to train for such intense racing a cyclist needs to be fresh and rested but the consequent lack of long, steady miles on the road means a loss of endurance for marathon events such as the one-day Classics and Tour de France.