Sentence examples for present merely from inspiring English sources

The accord is not a decision of the COP, which is what is needed to give it legal status; it is at present merely a document which the conference of the parties has "noted".

Since developed countries have become rich partly by cutting down their trees, and since old forests are better at storing carbon than new ones, it seems fair for the rich world to pay the poor world to stop logging (rather than, as at present, merely to plant new trees, under the so-called Clean Development Mechanism).

One can easily imagine Bloom warning today, as Brooks did in "The Well Wrought Urn" in 1947, that if "every poem is an expression of its age," then "the poetry of the past becomes significant merely as cultural anthropology, and the poetry of the present, merely as a political, or religious, or moral instrument," precluded from communicating universal truth.

Another tendency I've noticed that amplifies the belief of life being hard is being too future-focused -- which can cause us to perceive the present merely as a means to an end rather than as something of value in and of itself.

We thus present merely the point estimate for the number of lethal equivalents, in which for a diploid genome it is twice the rate of increase in mortality caused by inbreeding, and is thus equivalent to 2B.

Likewise, proteomic approaches employing various methodological means may prove helpful, but at present merely confirm the complexity of the biological interplay we are dealing with in RA [ 97].

Traits not just merely "present," but existing in a real and genuine way that emanates from each partner through their own want (not because someone is complaining).

Elsewhere, the relatively young discipline of communication skills is presented merely as a way of helping doctors to appear caring at times when they couldn't really care less.

But that video -- though often presented merely as file videotape of Ms. Schiavo -- was made by Ms. Schiavo's parents, Mary and Bob Schindler, who are intent on proving that their brain-damaged daughter ought not to be denied life-support measures.

Looking at another neurasthenic diagnosis of Darwin's illness, Medawar says that there is no refuting such argument, "for there is no argument; the case is presented merely by asseveration".

No scholarly article or scholarly book had been written about them, Arsenault says, and when they appeared in book chapters, they were presented merely as a prelude to what came next in the civil-rights movement.