Sentence examples for only an exercise from inspiring English sources

THIS time it was only an exercise.

The Stanford study was not only an exercise in misdirection, it was a headline generator.

More than anything, off-limits architecture is not only an exercise of power, but also a flight of the heart.

But the selection of this poetic political sermon as the oratorical centerpiece of our observance need not be only an exercise in historical evocation, nonpolitical correctness and patriotic solemnity.

Liberace was a fixture on the local social circuit, which meant that buying the house was not only an exercise in preserving Liberace's memory but a step into the limelight for Mr. Hemming, too.

It is emphasized here this section describes only an exercise.

In this study, 577 adults with IGT were randomized by clinic site to one of three conditions or a no treatment control: a diet-only intervention, an exercise only intervention, or a combined diet and exercise intervention.

But Allwill apparently defends them only as an exercise in intellectual virtuosity, simply for the sake of winning a point.

It's very easy: you only need an exercise book and a pencil.

There was even the requisite demoralizing for-profit experience, as an executive assistant at Miramax, if only as an exercise in values affirmation.

The orders to move into the park came down at the "last minute," said someone familiar with the orders, which referred to the assignment only as "an exercise".