Sentence examples for verdict merely from inspiring English sources

"The verdict merely validates grave concerns with this group of officers and beyond that we've raised to both prosecutors and judges for years to no avail".

A partial list includes nearly endless rights of appeal, not merely against a verdict but against minor decisions along the way.

"The jury's verdict is merely one step in the legal process.

"This verdict … is merely a way to shut us up.

Tuesday's verdict did not merely spruce up the whitewash over Corrie's death.

A verdict that will merely have prompted a thousand Twi-hards to ask: "Can I get a supersize serving of Wolf Pack abs in a church-group public service announcement?

This, though, may be merely the verdict when viewed from the heights – both metaphorically and literally – of my own orations.

To satisfy the Supreme Court's concerns about arbitrariness, Florida's new version shifted final sentencing authority from jurors to judges — the jury's sentence became merely an advisory verdict.

To satisfy the Supreme Court's concerns about arbitrariness, Florida's new version shifted final sentencing authority from jurors to judges the jury's sentence became merely an advisory verdict.

Citing the Australian scribe David Williamson as one of these, she goes on to conclude that "too many playwrights accept the majority verdict and believe they are merely writing 'blueprints for performance'.

Larkin's title, reeking of anachronism, is an index that, in the 19th century, the verdict was already in and merely waiting for Larkin to clear his throat and find photography guilty - of being prosaic, of being misleadingly literalist: "But o, photography!