Sentence examples for necessary merely from inspiring English sources

A warrant is not necessary, merely the filling out of a form even the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has obtained access.

But more than half of that outlay is necessary merely to make policy comply with an economic version of the Hippocratic oath: Do no harm to the bottom line.

To many people, this sounded like a conspiracy theory, but Chomsky argued that conspiracy wasn't necessary: it was necessary merely to take seriously the fact that media are products in a market; saying that the press responds to the interests of its élite patrons is no more a conspiracy theory than saying that managers at General Motors respond to the interests of investors.

In June the nation added fewer jobs than necessary merely to keep up with population growth (private hiring rose by 83,000 after adding only 33,000 jobs in May).

This repeatability would allow for quantitative transfer, should that be necessary, merely by adjusting the original slurry substrate concentration.

Peter Alkalay, Scarsdale, New York Making airports safer is necessary but merely fights the symptoms of the disease.

Designing smarter devices, apps and services is a necessary but merely partial step toward producing an overall satisfactory solution.

Such propositions are necessary but not merely hypothetical because they are necessarily instantiated in the judgments employed by the practitioners of a given science.

The president said that the bank-rescue plan and the broader economic stimulus program are necessary not merely to jolt the economy but because the country has "long-term challenges — health care, energy, education and others — that we can no longer afford to ignore".

It is plausible to suppose that the question over whether statements like 'Hesperus = Phosphorus', or perhaps 'If Hesperus exists then Hesperus = Phosphorus', are strongly necessary or merely weakly necessary depends on whether 'Hesperus' and 'Phosphorus' are "strongly" rigid (obstinate) or merely "weakly" rigid in this sense.

It became necessary not merely to criticize older forms of social organization but to work towards replacing them with something better.