Sentence examples for not merely maintained from inspiring English sources

"Now is a critical time for our tax system to be strengthened, not merely maintained at current levels," it said, adding that its research had found that growing numbers of Americans "believe it is acceptable to cheat on their taxes".

However, Assange was not merely maintaining silence; he was actively pushing a narrative about his sourcing, in which Russia was not involved.

In government, some hoped he would not merely maintain that statist approach, but improve on it, by stressing markets, innovation and communities.

This changed with American entry into World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson asserted what he saw as new and better principles: not merely maintaining a balance of power but also creating a cooperative world order based on the universal applicability of democratic institutions.

Kingsbrook is striving not merely to maintain outpatient services previously provided by St . Marys, but to expand services provided within the community.

In truth, that merely maintained a theme.

It is not a question of merely maintaining the initiative, but of compelling the enemy to see at every turn that he has lost it and to recognize that the forces of civilization are dominant and not to be denied".

With just two weeks until Baltimore, he will not be able to train his Big Bay but merely maintain him.

The peak performers merely maintain their level.

Our main goal was to gather the GPs' views and preferences on maintaining competences and not merely facts on how they maintained them.

Jonathan Yardley, writing in The Washington Post, said the volume showed that "Maxwell has maintained not merely a high level of consistency but has, if anything, become over the years a deeper and more complex writer".