Sentence examples for not merely respond from inspiring English sources

I make three arguments: first, in creating a malaria control program, the Argentine state did not merely respond to a given "social fact" but rather was the key participant in constructing the "malaria problem".

The result: desires, in organisms that can truly represent their environment internally (and not "merely" respond to it). Bruce Waller looks at the implications for moral philosophy in The Natural Selection of Autonomy (1998).

Congressional colleagues representing every political viewpoint across America spoke with one passionate and determined voice to ensure that we would lead, not merely respond to this global crisis.

In 2010, White House counterterrorism director John O. Brennan said that the United States "will not merely respond after the fact" of a terrorist attack but will "take the fight to al-Qaeda and its extremist affiliates whether they plot and train in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and beyond".

Its premise is that if potential attacks are to be prevented, and not merely responded to, law enforcement must focus on precursor conduct — surveillance or "casing" of bridges or train stations, for instance — that may not itself be criminal, but may signal a coming attack.

Kimberly Paschall, an attorney for the government, argued during a court hearing on Friday that "Ms. Fairooz was not merely responding" to her arrest.

(An additional series of tests checked turtles' responses to fragrances including jasmine, lemon, and cinnamon against the mud mud was still what drew turtles to the surface, suggesting that they weren't merely responding to any new scent).

American Islam does not mean necessarily observing Juma (community) prayer on Sunday instead of Friday-thus imitating US values; but it means developing institutions that are indigenously rooted and respond, not merely react, to realities; this must be adapted Islam to an American context.

In fact, Prophet Muhammad taught that if abused or hurt in the state of fasting, a Muslim must not retaliate and merely respond by saying, "I am fasting".

The American critic on the whole feels obliged not merely to respond to the work set before him, but to somehow become a prophet, a pronouncer on American society.

"She wasn't just merely responding, she was voicing an opinion," Paschall said.