Sentence examples for was merely facing from inspiring English sources

Since the primary balance showed a hole equal to 0.5% of GDP in the nine months to September (because of a pre-election spending splurge), the government was merely facing up to reality.

This was merely face-saving by Louis XVI; Lafayette was given a hero's welcome and was soon invited to hunt with the king.

Smith said that apart from Clay and Trent, the rest of the cast were merely "faces in the crowd" with no attempt to give them any sort of backstory.

Tells how this was merely a face-saving move.

He was merely another face in the crowd, one of the many evangelists who came to play for the Cosmos in the soccer wilderness that was the United States in the late 1970s.

Six and seven years ago, when he was merely another face in the crowd, Armstrong used to collaborate with a journalist in a preview of the Tour for a bicycle magazine in the United States.

But the victory was merely the public face of a label in turmoil.

The U.N. panel, during its subsequent investigation, endorsed Hecker's view that Yongbyon was merely the visible face of a broader project.

As the drama unfolded, some critics wondered aloud if Chief Moose was merely the public face of the investigation while Gary M. Bald of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mike Bouchard of the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco and Firearms ran things behind the scenes.

Many pro-Western critics say that Mr. Nikolic's about-face was merely cosmetic and that his true anti-Western instincts would prevail if he and his party triumphed.

Representative Richard E. Neal, Democrat of Massachusetts, said the administration was merely trying to save face "by rattling its saber with new deadlines," after having undermined American national security interests by easing penalties on ZTE.