Sentence examples for not merely given from inspiring English sources

Give away your life; you'll find life given back, not merely given back--given back with bonus and blessing.

Wilson's statement was a next-level version of the "all thanks to God" quotes that players regularly give to sideline reporters in the afterglow of a big win — God had not merely given him the strength to do the things he had practiced all his life but, in Wilson's telling, had arranged the events of the game to provide for the greatest amount of narrative satisfaction.

Such findings suggest that attention, even when triggered by a simple spatial cue, is not merely given to locations, but also to shapes, colours, and arbitrary learned meanings.

And they claim, with Mill and Rousseau, that such concerns are not merely given prior to politics but that they can evolve and improve through the process of discussion and debate in politics.

In the experience of art, we are not merely given a 'moment' of vision, but are able to 'dwell' along with the work in a way that takes us out of ordinary time into what Gadamer calls 'fulfilled' or 'autonomous' time.

What is more, this power is not merely given to courts of the same level of authority as the one laying down the precedent (as is the case with overruling), but is given to every court lower in the judicial hierarchy.

Eunju did not merely give me ice chips in a plastic foam cup.

You did not merely give advice -- you helped send people to prison.

As Ortiz discussed the Rays, he did not merely give a 30-second response.

And worse, it does not merely give aid and comfort to the original terrorists, but encourages wannabes eager for their own fifteen minutes.

The concept is that Christians should not merely give to the poor, but also work to correct unjust conditions that keep people poor.