Sentence examples for not merely potential from inspiring English sources

He is wrestling with the fact that humans are not merely potential markets.

The absence of this fact, in Kripke's view, leads Wittgenstein to abandon the explanation of the meanings of statements like "By 'plus', I meant addition" in terms of truth-conditions, and to replace it with explanation in terms of assertibility-conditions, which involve actual (not merely potential) community agreement.

This wine did not merely represent potential; it was potential realized.

He was furious that the coalition attack on Libya did not merely stop a potential slaughter in Benghazi but ended up toppling Muammar Qaddafi and creating even more disorder in the region.

Fiscal policy has stopped working; the sickness of Japan's banks makes any macroeconomic approach to the problem, fiscal or monetary, irrelevant; the country's productive potential, not merely its ability to mobilise demand, is collapsing.

They have found that another type of antimatter, the antiproton, has potential not merely for detecting cancer, but for treating it.The positrons used in PET are produced by the decay of radioactive chemicals that are injected into a patient and accumulate preferentially in cancer cells.

10Notice that the "treatment" here is not merely the absence of potential racial discrimination in the labor market.

It is necessary to analyse not merely a single group of potential customers or simply one market segment.

Thus ICF is, in effect, a potential bridge, not merely between indicators and data sources – which is, in practical terms, an essential facilitator of a scientifically respectable monitoring process – but also a bridge between scientific values and the political and social values expressed in the rights in the CRPD.

Thus, it seems that Ca2+-based action potentials are not merely an evolutionary relic but may be advantageous in simple neuronal circuits.

The material voluminous, technical, classified had the potential to transform not merely perceptions about the N.S.A. but also the law.