Sentence examples for to act merely from inspiring English sources

They may not be democrats, but they will not likely wish to act merely as bodyguards for a despot.

Instead, spokesmen for the Kochs and for Meredith say that the brothers intend to act merely as "passive" investors.

One of the dissenters, Kathleen Casey, complained that the move was guided "less by empirical analysis and more by public relations" and that "we should resist the urge to act merely to say we have acted".

The only comparable actors in the disappointing Hobbit films were Ken Stott and Andy Serkis; and in the dire sitcom Vicious one surely doesn't need to act, merely wade through the "lines" without slipping into a coma.

If you knew that you were going to have a car accident today that was going to take out your right arm, would you step out of your home?" Most well-trained physicians believe that it would be a dereliction of their duties to act merely as information providers, standing aside while patients make bad decisions.

The stage is therefore set for a dispute because the last thing the journalist (and his/her editor) wishes to do is to act merely as a publicity platform, while the actor - in most cases - wishes to say as little as possible (and often has little of interest to say anyway).

Like Mr. Colicchio and Mr. Ripert, Mr. Chang was required not merely to act, but to play a version of himself from several years earlier.

Thus, MTX appears to act not merely by suppressing pro-inflammatory genes, but by a re-ordering of specific transcript levels.

Barack Obama's re-election does not obviate the need to act, it merely tilts the nature of the action in his favour.

I mean, one's got to get up in the morning thinking of a deviant act, merely to make certain of one's freedom.

But Senate Democrats will let down those who sent them to Washington if they act merely as a passive firewall.