Sentence examples for were merely on from inspiring English sources

That said, there I was accosted by the independent art project #onvacation, which aims to blazon Russia's recent occupation of the Ukraine, in which the Russian government claimed that troops were merely "on vacation" there.

My own kids were merely on the rambunctious side by comparison, if sometimes more greenly than at other times.

The government was desperate to determine whether Iraqi troops were merely on a maneuver or were poised for invasion.

For a while, everything remained in place — the tools, the rolls of paper, the two trucks — as though workers were merely on an extended lunch break.

After a long standoff with the government of Peru, Yale University has agreed to return a large group of artifacts that were excavated at Machu Picchu in a historic dig by a Yale explorer in 1912 and that Peru contends were merely on loan and should have been returned long ago.

As a bored, spoiled Sicilian baron looking to do away with his fluttery, fawning wife so he can marry his virginal 16-year-old cousin (Stefania Sandrelli), Mastroianni is an insouciant, sleepy lizard: he saunters through the picture as if he were merely on his way to finding the right sunny rock.

But he has disappeared and is now thought to be hiding in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, although his FNL group says he is merely "on holiday".

When you watched a movie made for theaters on television, it was not television, it was merely "on" television.

Telling the girl, or not, is merely one step on a long and fairly muddy road.

For others, it is merely one milestone on a long road of mourning.

But it is merely one step on the ladder to a new post-carbon paradigm.