Sentence examples for was a merely from inspiring English sources

The bank said the negative bet was a merely a hedge against its exposure to the housing market.

Andreoni's argument was a merely theoretical one, but the experiment by List and Karlan suggested that it was correct.

Our '96 St.-Joseph Grand Reserve from Guyot ($18) was a merely satisfactory red, a minor blip in an otherwise delightful meal.

Zhanna A. Kaplina, the school's deputy director, welcomed the program but lamented that it was a merely three-month pilot project.

Was Lincoln in a view first formulated by critic Edmund Wilson and later popularized by writer Gore Vidal an American Bismarck, whose choice of abolition was a merely tactical maneuver in the midst of a drive toward power?

Although the taking of the oath was a merely symbolic gesture — no one but a Vice-President had ever ascended to the Presidency when a President died, so precedent had established that a Vice-President became President automatically, immediately upon a President's death — it was a powerful symbol.

She was not a merely descriptive poet.

This is not a merely theoretical possibility.

It's not a merely academic inquiry.

But I was merely a staff sergeant.

But it was merely a concept.