Sentence examples for was merely engaging from inspiring English sources

You might say that Wilbon was merely engaging in a tactic familiar to any boxing fan: hyping the next big fight, using whatever claim is most convenient.

Colin Kazim-Richards had claimed he was merely engaging in "banter" with the crowd at his former club, Brighton and Hove Albion, while playing at their ground for Blackburn Rovers.

When Republicans said that his view conflicted with current law, Mr. Becker said that he was merely engaging in a scholarly debate and that as a labor board member, he would follow the law in deciding cases.

Asness, of course, was merely engaging in some clumsy attempt at humor.

In the rare instances when he is forced to produce evidence to support his broadcast diatribes and vile personal attacks -- evidence that he does not have -- Limbaugh shifts gears and professes he was merely engaging in satiric humor to make his point.

The journalist Jean-François Jean-François Kahnpractically certain" that Dsaidas not trying to rape the Sofitel maid, but was merely engaging in "troussage de domestique," lifting the skirt of the servant.

In 2015, just before his arrest, Choudary claimed he was merely engaged in a "verbal jihad".

The officer's lawyers have argued that their client was merely engaged in playing out dark fantasies on fetish Web sites that are used by thousands of people.

Officer Valle's lawyers contend that their client was merely engaged in role-play on deviant Web sites, and that he never intended to harm anyone or take steps beyond his fantasy writings.

Officer Valle's lawyers contend that their client was merely engaged in deviant fantasy and role playing on a fetish Web site, and had no intention of carrying out actual crimes.

This is what makes the Pope's defenders so disingenuous when they insist that he was merely engaged in a "scholarly consideration of the relationship between reason and faith".