Sentence examples for until now merely from inspiring English sources

Do the Braves have any business punishing a player whose on-field antics and volatile behavior have been tolerated by teammates and management until now, merely for escalating his rhetoric?

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), which until now has merely collected intelligence, would gain the power to act on it to disrupt potential terrorist activity.

Other top Trump allies argue the current proposal is too blunt of an object as it stands, so they're lobbying their fellow Republicans — those who up until now have merely voted to debate the bill on the Senate floor — to now oppose it.

Nevertheless, the average follow-up until now was merely 3.8 (SD 1.3) years, so inference of long-term effects, i.e., from long-standing control and diminishing carryover of pretreatment glycemic exposure, is not yet possible.

It is now, merely, a reflex".

It is now merely one of the world's workshops.

It now merely spreads confusion and breeds dogmatism.

Instead of being destitute, these women are now merely poor.

BAT is now merely an investor in Reynolds.

He is now merely miscast".

Until now, we've merely been witnessing a soft-shoe shuffle – a debate here, a hi-vis photocall there, Joey Essex everywhere else – that only really coalesced into anything meaningful when the parties unveiled their manifestos this week.