Sentence examples for was merely a group from inspiring English sources

The convoy was merely a group of refugees.

For almost a century and a half, America was merely a group of colonies scattered along the eastern seaboard of the North American continent colonies from which a few hardy souls tentatively ventured westward.

Back when the Reagan administration reversed President Jimmy Carter's policy of pressure on the white government of South Africa, the Republicans explained that the African National Congress was merely a group of Marxist terrorists.

My sparring partner, Jerry Taylor, a CATO Institute senior fellow opined that OPEC was merely a grouping of oil producers who played no significant role in oil pricing, "Prices are established by global supply and demand", he went on "OPEC...has a minority control over global supply.

They're merely a group of guys skating around in Ranger uniforms.

It's merely a group of hooligans who are causing chaos and committing petty crimes for the thrill of it.

A society is merely a group of individuals but each one has to contribute.

This is true, and I was struck by David Miliband's warning in the Guardian this week that a Labour party that was merely a pressure group would mean Britain would become what he called "one governing-party state".

Without the federal government's involvement, though, the new deal no longer represented a national tobacco policy; it was merely a contractual settlement with a group of aggrieved plaintiffs.

He said he was merely a "mouthpiece" for rebel groups in Yemen, and a "peacemaker" during the kidnapping of 16 tourists there in 1998 that left four people dead.

In his subsequent book, "Frame-Up" (Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1971), Mr. Weisberg maintained that although Mr. Ray was a member of a racist group, he was merely a decoy and had been pressured into a confession, which he later recanted.