Sentence examples for up to merely from inspiring English sources

And it did, too, to Ms. Steinberg and Mr. Finer, who criticized the report's "untrue statements" and "false claims about the implications of the findings" that cannot be chalked up to merely "a scholarly difference of opinion".

Many East Germans, ecstatic about the opening of the wall, quickly began to have second thoughts about becoming the junior partner to West Germany, and in particular about the tendency in the West to reduce the country where they grew up to merely the dictatorship and the East German secret police, known as the Stasi.

It is not set up to merely provide updates to a community of followers and friends.

The financial penalties add up to $1 million, merely a drop out of Eddie D.'s bucket.

Puddles of total disrepair have been bracketed by neat streets freshly spit-and-polished new coffee spit-and-polished newtering to tourispit-and-polished new raw industrial spacoffeeshops up to looking merestaurantsorn.

If someone comes up to you merely stay calm and avoid any awkward questions and insults if possible.

Ken Clarke tried to offer support by suggesting five aircrew wasn't very many and that international borders weren't all they were once cracked up to be, but merely provoked laughter from the opposition benches.

"His laughter struck Chappelle as wrong," Time reported, "He wondered if the new season of his show had gone from sending up stereotypes to merely reinforcing them".

Days later, at a Hispanic Leadership Network lunch in Florida, Craig, in a neat trick of Mormon matryoshka dolls, hoisted his own five-year-old son, Parker, up to the microphone merely to say, "Hola".

Indeed, we can imagine the "coffin exercise" backfiring, an employee refusing to ever return to the pettiness of office life after realising that her existence must add up to more than merely sending emails all day.

Claire Messud's novel has a lot to live up to - not merely due to its inclusion on the Booker longlist, let alone its imposing size, but because a glance at the first line of the cover ("In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three 30-year-old friends are seeking their fortunes... ..) immediately suggests that it is bound to end with 9/11.