Sentence examples for were merely using from inspiring English sources

She said the Tigers were merely using the cease-fire to regroup and prepare for new offensives.

This observation rules out the possibility that subjects were merely using stimulus evidence as a cue to choose between tasks at the end of blocks.

But defense officials said they had no information that Commander Speicher was still alive, and were merely using the new M.I.A. declaration to press Iraq for a full accounting of the pilot's whereabouts.

But the ducks also held their heads at a constant angle to the horizon, which would not be necessary if they were merely using the spots to steer ahead.

At St. Paul's, this lesson was missed by everyone who didn't back Fraser's invitation to the Occupy demonstrators to join the service — a failure made more acute by the fact that the protesters weren't even raising their placards against the church but were merely using it as backdrop.

At St. Paul's, this lesson was missed by everyone who didn't back Canon Fraser's invitation to the demonstrators to join the service -- a failure made more acute by the fact that the protesters weren't even raising their placards against the church but were merely using it as backdrop.

Soil profile depictions were merely used to illustrate different orders in a classification system.

Union negotiators responded that those figures were merely used as an illustration.

While in the past they were merely used to exchange non time critical data (e.g. parameters and configuration data) nowadays they allow for much more powerful performance.

The tweezers were merely used to place edible blooms and micro herbs and tiny shards of this or that which I didn't give a toss about.

She continued by saying that she felt like, in the past, mobile phones were merely used by kids to have voice contact with their parents.