Sentence examples for phrase is merely from inspiring English sources
But it might also turn out that this phrase is merely a forced construct from events of 150 years ago.
"Let me ask you a question – women sing that song – so are women singing that to other women?" When pushed further on the subject, Williams insists that when taking the song's lyrics out of context, the phrase is merely provocative rather than trivialising sexual consent.
His profile is merely a Latin phrase that translates to "if you want peace, prepare for war".
This one I'll actually provide my own talking point, since the actual quotation is merely a short phrase which the president repeated in his speech dozens of times, in one form or another.
Saying this is a dictate of the "Author of Nature" (a phrase used by Lyell and many other contemporary naturalists) is merely to cite the putative ultimate cause; otherwise there are natural ("secondary") causes for the deaths of species.
In the end, the opponents' argument is merely about how the statute is phrased, rather than about its substance.
So when I first heard the phrase, I couldn't help but think that AllLivesMatter is merely a troll response to #BlackLivesMatter.
We are actually contradicting ourselves when we say religion is merely a set of beliefs and then in the same breath uttering phrases like Muslim World.
In that system, the king is merely the head of the ruling family, a situation that early European orientalists described by recycling the phrase primus inter pares.
