Sentence examples for stopped merely being from inspiring English sources
This, D'Agata suggests, is the turning point: when Adams stopped merely being someone who shot pictures and became an artist, with all the intentionality it implies.
The noughties were the decade when people stopped merely dreaming about being travel writers and got involved.
But when the eponymous alien finally reveals itself, the wait is justified: the creature is fantastically well realised, a creeping, slick horror that cannot be stopped, merely avoided.
One solution arrived at by Warburg Pincus, a New York outfit, is to stop merely buying and selling businesses and to build them from scratch instead.Why pay a bundle to buy an overpriced African oil-exploration firm, say, when you can hire a team of seasoned industry hands to recreate much the same thing for a lower price?
It is merely being human.
But Dr. Bethe said that those scientific mistakes showed that Heisenberg "had never thought how to make a bomb," rather than suggesting that he had merely been stopped by incompetence.
Had Kaepernick merely been stopped short of the touchdown instead of fumbling, the game was almost certainly heading to overtime, as the 49ers needed a short field goal to tie the game.
His recent club form cannot merely be the latest false dawn of a stop‑start career.
If the banks are forced to reduce their holdings, or merely to stop being active buyers, the bottom could fall out of the agency bond market.
When the right denounces American the principles that have made us great, they stop being merely wrong, and start becoming even more dangerous.
