Sentence examples for surely merely from inspiring English sources

Corrales' trainer, Joe Goossen, did his best to buy a few extra recovery seconds by prevaricating with the mouthpiece as the ref implored him to reinsert it, but he was surely merely delaying the inevitable.

If this hypothesis is correct, this again vividly reminds us that our current levels of serotonin are set by a range of largely random and arbitrary factors – it is surely merely an accident that the diet of some cultures is based on maize rather than grain!

The Colonel, though he surely disapproves, merely lights his pipe, then picks up some papers from the table beside him, shuffles through them.

Yet surely this merely underscores the Boskin commission's findings (that the consumer-price index overstates increases in the cost of living), as well as the gut feelings of most economists and travelling burger buffs: that the dollar remains significantly undervalued.MICHAEL BURDABerlinSIR Perhaps you should introduce an Economist Newspaper index.

Surely they merely made a simple mistake, were led astray by someone older and wiser.

Rush Limbaugh said, "You just don't, if you are the leader in the race for the Republican nomination, you don't come out and give tacit approval to the government takeover of General Motors and Chrysler, and then compound that by saying, 'Hey, what I did's no different!' " But surely Romney was merely preparing himself for the next round of attack ads and counter-ads.

Surely this will merely lead to the unscrupulous taking advantage of the system?

Feeding the repertory is the only way forward and surely it is not merely a question of commissioning new works.

Surely you just do that".

But the war on drugs surely aimed higher than merely altering the stuff people that take and how they get hold of it.

And one that Facebook will surely be hoping not merely takes the heat away from its platform, but — via the likes of this expanded counterspeech initiative — works to rechannel the negative energy being directed at its platform and turn it into increase engagement on its platform.