Sentence examples for responded merely from inspiring English sources

In private, on hearing that he had died, Nixon had responded merely: "Jesus Christ!

In reacting to the crisis in Darfur, aid agencies wasted valuable time and effort soliciting funds from donors, who were slow to respond or responded merely with promises.

When readers asked if this was deliberate, Pratchett responded: "Merely because the red army can fight, dig, march and climb and is controlled by little icons?

But they responded by merely asking for mediation efforts to continue between Mr Mugabe and the opposition; these are led by South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki, and have got nowhere.

The alleged killer could not imagine how the city of Charleston, under the good and wise leadership of Mayor Riley – how the state of South Carolina, how the United States of America would respond – not merely with revulsion at his evil act, but with big-hearted generosity and, more importantly, with a thoughtful introspection and self-examination that we so rarely see in public life.

While our observations here have focused largely on cytokine polarization of the initial response, all of the markers assessed here, including IL-2 activation, CD127 expression and anti-apoptotic markers indicate that responder cells in this transgenic system are fully fit to respond, they merely choose to do it in a different way.

Hence they respond not merely to the fact of their political weakness, but also to the denial it represents of their moral character and efficacy qua moral.

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.

The department was accused of "deadly secrecy", but merely responded that it did not feel it appropriate to release this information.

This leads to a funny story about how he decided to leave home, with Joan responding by merely saying "when do you want to leave?" and him realizing he didn't.

When Kate reported the incident to Uber, the company merely responded to say the driver had been deactivated, but gave no indication as to what personal information he had access to or how he had tracked her online.