Sentence examples for that merely because from inspiring English sources

We therefore assume that a man like Malick is playing a devilish game of anti-publicity, in order to stoke our curiosity; no less perilous, however, is our assumption that merely because a movie, or a novel, was pondered, and kept secret, for a lengthy period it must tower above its more precipitate peers.

This finding intersects somewhat with the observation that merely because an ethical standard is difficult to attain does not render the standard wrong [ 63].

But if they have that merely because they are better educated, then that does not bode well for the future of the American economy.

Meaning that merely because something has not been proved by evidence doesn't mean it isn't true.

One ought not to be deceived, imagining that merely because I, too, have long been "perilously poor," because I'm African American, that I'm deluded.

And to think that merely because I was a professional baseball player, I could ignore what was going on outside the walls of Busch Stadium was truly hypocrisy and now I found that all of those rights that these great Americans were dying for, I didn't have in my own profession".

That's not merely because, as his management pointed out to him, Busted's popularity showed no signs of waning - "if I'd stuck with it for another couple of years," he says, "I would never have had to work again" - but because Fightstar's music is pitched at the heavy rock market, the world of Kerrang! magazine, the Download festival and bands called Children of Bodom and Avenged Sevenfold.

The 22% of GDP to which federal spending should return once full employment is achieved is not that high merely because of Mr Obama's policies.

Because "emergency" and extended-benefit benefits are paid to people only when they have exhausted the normal benefits, the fraction shown in the chart is a measure of how much unemployment benefits are paid pursuant to unemployment insurance rule changes, as opposed to payments that occur merely because more people were losing their jobs.

So while I am merely human and cannot say I have forgiven more than twice in my life, that is merely because I don't think any of us flawed, animal creatures can really forgive on our own, unless God steps in and does it for us.

None of our participants described incidents of bullying that occurred merely because of individual-level attitudes, traits or other personal reasons.