Sentence examples for sought merely from inspiring English sources

Not since the canneries of the early 20th century have food processors sought merely to preserve perishables.

Rather, he said, it sought merely to draw a distinction between what Mr. Lazio and Mrs. Clinton stand for.

The term "feeding frenzy" wasn't yet common coin; rather than seeking an individual and distinctive response to the movie, critics sought merely to outdo themselves in the art of stone-throwing, each one's hostile cruelty shielded by everyone else's.

That broad sweep is likely to make the law more easily challenged on the grounds that its drafters sought merely to discriminate, punish, and create a second class of citizenship.

And as long as their frenetically irrational social circle is at center stage, the play is alive; a one-act that sought merely to parse their cultural grammar would be effective, and it would be interesting to see if the quartet of young actors here -- Daniel Bess, T. R. Knight, Chris Messina and Elizabeth Reaser -- could sustain the exciting chemistry of their eerie clique.

Like most Neo-Daoist intellectuals, Ruan believed that the teaching of Confucius had been distorted by later scholars who under the banner of Confucianism sought merely to further their own gain.

"Traffic," seeks merely to show how bad things can get.

Colonel Qaddafi, he said, may have been seeking merely to intimidate potential foes.

The truth is that Isocrates was seeking merely a military leader.

He is at his weakest when he seeks merely to provoke rather than to convince.

Biologists, who seek merely to understand how life works, accept this.