Sentence examples for was merely obeying from inspiring English sources
He was merely obeying orders.
Northern Trust had argued that as a "directed trustee" it was merely obeying Enron's instructions and had no fiduciary duty of its own.
The channel was merely obeying the convention, however, under which the three occasions on which pre-noon alcohol is not frowned upon in Britain are Christmas, Cup final day, and at Gatwick airport waiting for a flight to Fuerteventura.
Although the 1998 article was overly optimistic about the time it would take, it was merely obeying what has been called "the first law of technology" by Francis Collins in his book on the DNA revolution: "The consequences of a radical new technology are almost always overestimated in the short term and underestimated in the long term" (Collins, 2010).
When one German starts a letter to another with "Lieber Franz!" they are merely obeying cultural norms, not laughing at their own jokes.
Start generating frank and nonbiased assessments of [your] subpar colleague," while researchers who kill their human test subjects exonerate themselves by announcing they are merely obeying "the mandates of science".
Butler -- whose books include "A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993, and "Tabloid Dreams" -- tries to fudge this by having Desi say he's merely obeying orders and that the millennium is regarded as a propitious time by humanity.
After all, they were merely obeying orders issued by their masters; individuals who, by common agreement, by very definition, possessed special powers, were wise, superior, holy, closer to the gods.
Marbury was merely dazed.
