Sentence examples for should have merely from inspiring English sources

I don't think "Arrested Development" should have merely replicated the kind of episodes that aired during its original run.

This policy was also endorsed by the Soviet chief diplomat in Germany, Vladimir Semyonov, the future Chief Commissar of the USSR in Germany, who already in January 1948 correspondingly stated, that SMAD orders, (which accompanied DWK orders,) should have merely the purpose to back the authority of the German orders.

According to Reid's construal of it, the aim of Humean practical reason is not to determine the ends that we should have, but merely to ascertain how most effectively to satisfy our passions (EAP III.iii.i: 153; cf. also EAP II.ii: 54).

He was especially aggrieved by Nielsen's claim that he should not have merely looked at data from the first two weeks of the season.

It strikes me as particularly important that we should have not merely a Common Manual, but should also establish a monitoring body to verify, at regular intervals, that the provisions are being implemented and adhered to, which is what common standards and high quality are all about.

But it seemed as though where there should have been merely a skier and the course, there were, instead, the skier, the course and her unwelcome consciousness.

A midnight blaze in February 1975, which should have been merely a nuisance, turned into a debacle.

Others were charged with meting out an illegal punishment, since Mr Hung's offence should have earned merely a reprimand.

Some of those who pitch up for a sporting event have merely rescheduled a trip planned for another date, and should not count as extra arrivals.

Others have merely been pelted with eggs.

They have merely been inconvenienced.