Sentence examples for not merely was from inspiring English sources

Not merely was he an outspoken Negro leader but — what was perhaps a matter of equal boldness in Georgia — an outspoken Republican.

Not merely was this plan approved before being presented in full to the Israeli public, but those involved refused to reveal it even after it had been published in foreign architectural magazines.

Not merely was this film bad enough to cause your brain matter to start leaking into your sinuses, but it may have played its own tiny, tiresome role in our island story.

"I am quite sure we did the right thing because, because not merely was he a threat to his region, to the wider world, but it was an appalling regime that the world is well rid of".

According to Lee Strickland, a former chief privacy officer of the C.I.A., prosecutors pressing espionage charges against Rosen and Weissman would have to prove that the information the two men gave to Gilon not merely was classified but rose to the level of "national-defense information," meaning that it could cause dire harm to the United States.

Niles was not merely being rhetorical.

He is not merely being acted upon.

Would we not merely be undermining that ?

Since November the term has not merely been promulgated.

He has not merely been recognised, but embraced.

In fact she had not merely been kept safe but pestered by the rams.