Sentence examples for not merely failed from inspiring English sources

The company has not merely failed to use content to promote its technology.

Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC has said that in the Speyer case the legal system "not merely failed one prominent citizen but blotted its own copybook".

His party, Congress, had not merely failed to secure a majority at the general election: even the 17-strong rag-bag of a coalition it heads is in the minority.

Let them explain that the WTO is not a global government, but merely a place where governments make agreements, and then subject themselves to arbitration in the event of a dispute.Under each of these headings, governments have not merely failed to make the case for free trade.

And it only adds to its embarrassment that the other non-state actor, the purely Sunni Hamas, not merely fails to share that view of Hizbullah, but, under Iranian auspices, operates in growing partnership with it.

Your argument does not merely fail on its merits; it fails spectacularly.

The biological parent, having become sexually involved with one of the actual parents, hasn't merely failed to exercise responsibilities, but shows himself to be arrantly irresponsible to be nothing less than a classic homewrecker.

The police in Nuevo Laredo don't merely fail to investigate murders; they assist Cardona in his executions, patrolling outside a restaurant while he slays a diner inside.

Second, Prop 8 didn't merely fail to open up more civil rights; it actively took rights away.

(Theorem-proving aficionados will note that this is true negation, not negation-as-failure; we need to know that no ortholog exists, not that we have merely failed to find one.

Such abstraction does not falsify its objects, as in omitting specific measurements we do not claim that they do not exist, we merely fail to specify them.