Sentence examples for served as merely from inspiring English sources

On Saturday, Mr. Putin announced that he and Mr. Medvedev had agreed "several years ago" that the younger man would cede the presidency to him in 2012, suggesting that Mr. Medvedev had served as merely a convenient placeholder all along.

But the review served as merely a guide for local school districts, which have the ultimate say in which books they use and are under no requirement that those books be open source.

The drugs were classified into one or more indications, as shown in Tables 1 and 2. While the exact classification of the drugs is in some cases debatable, drug class served as merely an adjustment in the regression models and was not the primary focus of this paper.

But several lawmakers and housing advocates said they remained uncertain whether Mr. Preston, 47, who currently heads the Small Business Administration, would push the federal housing agency to embrace a more assertive role in the nation's housing crisis or would instead serve as merely a caretaker in the waning months of the Bush administration.

This suggests the growth of ZnO in our supercycled ALD is dominated by the thermal ALD process and the subsequent O2 plasma step serves as merely a treatment.

And the way its escape serves as merely the first in a series of ever-escalating dinosaur danger dominoes is very well played.

I decided to go along with an open mind and see if, as claimed by various editors of Literary Review, the prize was not designed with the intention of bullying writers, but serves as merely another kind of criticism.

Furthermore, RTs serve as merely a crude measure of creative abilities (Fink et al., 2007).

Instead the action of external objects on the sense organs brings about changes in the body and these changes serve as the merely occasional cause of the production of sensations in the mind.

Far from doing so, they have merely served as an excuse for a fresh examination of her character and credibility.

Ergul said that the article was wrong and that he merely served as a translator for Ilyasova, who is from Turkey.