Sentence examples for necessary not merely from inspiring English sources

He became increasingly convinced that it was necessary not merely to protest but to actively resist war.

Because larger and smaller clubs are mutually dependent for creating a marketable product, the European Commission made the case that spending restrictions designed to protect the viability of smaller clubs were necessary, not merely to protect balance, but also to protect the existence of leagues without state subsidies.

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

To understand the case of necessity one must ask the question: when is one epistemically entitled to believe that something is necessary and not merely true?

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

Insurance will tend to cover plastic surgery only when the surgery is deemed "medically necessary" and not merely aesthetic.

At its best, a liberal education imbues future citizen-leaders with the values and skills that are necessary to question, not merely serve, concentrations of power and profit.

It is necessary to analyse not merely a single group of potential customers or simply one market segment.

Diodorus Cronus, against whom Chrysippus argued, claimed that (1) truths about the past are necessary: it is not merely that they aren't other than they are they can't be other than they are, for nothing has the power to change the past (Epictetus, 38A).

The names of the two comedies shouldn't be set off with commas; this is a "restrictive" construction, in which the names are necessary to the sense, not merely additional information.