Sentence examples for not merely nice from inspiring English sources

ARM chairman Stuart Chambers said that SoftBank's guarantees on jobs and investment were legal commitments, not merely "nice ideas and promises and intents".

Even if some Hermès's customers don't mind being led by the nose, the company still has to invest in the dreams of other people, and the principle that they look to these shows for ideas, and not merely nice products.

These great values are not merely nice to have: they are the cornerstone of the good economy and society, and it is around them that a manifesto for reform must be organised.

These are essential elements of dashboard development and not merely "nice to haves" (Table 1).

But Dr Pendry's bold conclusion, just published in Physical Review Letters, is that a slab of material with a negative refractive index would not merely make a nice lens, it would make a perfect lens.

Jon Pareles of The New York Times viewed the concept of the song as not merely having a nice wardrobe to entice men, but it also serves as "a means of self-assertion".

Repairing relationships between the Sheriff's Department and the communities it serves must be a priority, not merely as a nice complement to strong leadership but as an essential component of it.

He does not merely dream of how nice it would be to get out of this hellhole - he realises that he absolutely has to get out, pronto, or get sucked into the deadly gang warfare that's leaving his contemporaries dead or in jail.

And like most of us, he was not merely looking for a nice house, but trying to find the right neighborhood, the right street.

Senator J. William Fulbright said, Educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.

That sounds commendable, but if Paris is the summit, then Mr. de la Renta should expect his clients to come to the mountaintop, not merely meet him halfway with nice suits or a pink-sashed cocktail dress in beaded taupe lace, however pretty.