Sentence examples similar to would merely cost from inspiring English sources

Glencore would merely be the latest in a long line.

He asserted that the pension and early retirement proposals would merely transfer costs to future years and do nothing to raise productivity.

He insisted that they would merely move costs from this year to future years and would not provide the productivity increases, like shorter vacations or a longer workweek, that he was seeking.

For example, if delay in onset of dementia increases life span, this would merely shift costs some years hence rather than reduce them.

But it would cost merely $3,000 to enable Meter Feeder.

Instead, critics say, the proposal would merely cap vouchers, shifting costs to patients.

Some matters, such as control over North Sea oil and gas revenues, are obvious; but other, equally important ones, such as whether an independent Scotland would merely share in the costs and command structures of the British armed forces, or have its own, are not.

Self-settlement would almost certainly cost less than camps: help would merely supplement what refugees earn, and there would be no need to feed them or build complex infrastructure.

I would merely ask you to be aware of this.

These strategies lack the poisonous aura of a tax because they would merely shift the way people make their car insurance payments without adding to the cost of driving.

Unnecessary public works — Kamaishi's reconstruction plans include building a rugby stadium — would merely hasten the tsunami zone's decline by saddling it with high maintenance costs.