Sentence examples for not merely instruments from inspiring English sources

They were vessels for solidarity, often very conservative, and not merely instruments of political agitation.

But both the I.M.F. and the World Bank still have much to do to build trust among emerging markets and make a convincing case that they are not merely instruments of the rich economies.

Guns are not merely the instrument; guns are the issue.

You have a role, and not merely an instrument, to play, and that role can quickly become a trap.

Ritual constitutes an important part of what ren is, and hence it is not merely an instrument for refining the substance of ren.

Indeed, Gadamer takes language to be, not merely some instrument by means of which we are able to engage with the world, but as instead the very medium for such engagement.

The texts thus imply that the Mohist political system is not merely an instrument for producing utility, but is itself a component of the goods that constitute moral right and thus is intrinsically justified.

Understood in this austere sense, i.e. in terms of the mind's ability to recognize logical necessity, reason is not merely one instrument among many; instead, it becomes the means whereby the human soul comes into contact with truths that are devoid of the mutability afflicting the objects of the senses.

Their vocal techniques range from operatic purity to spluttering glossolalia and on to pop inflections, but they have in common a tendency to use their own voices not merely as lead instruments but as structuring principles.

The upshot is that organizations at the intermediate level come to the fore not merely as policy instruments following the institutional division of labour requested by cosmopolitanism but as vital means to realise the inalienable right to self-rule – to democracy.

Dungen's pastoral origins are not merely circumstantial Ejstes makes very loud instruments sound soft and woodsy and the album has an easygoing rapture that has made it popular both in its native country and internationally.