Here it merely contributed to a flop so spectacular that it almost made you feel sorry for its creator.
Thus, when Thrasymachus in the first book of Plato's Republic argues that justice is unwarranted when it merely contributes to another's good and not to the good of the doer, Plato agrees.
It is controversial whether pulmonary contusion with flail chest is a major factor in mortality on its own or whether it merely contributes to mortality in people with multiple injuries.
But, if the value of phase I is lower (because it either has no clinical value or because it has no immediate health value), as it merely contributes to future research, why do we accept higher risks here?
The rumour that Rattle is considering the post of chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra when he leaves Berlin in 2018 merely contributed to the heady excitement.
MR: Yeah, you sold out because you merely contributed to the culture songs like "Lay Down (Candles In The Rain)," one of the great Woodstock-era anthems.
In 2014, in the little-discussed case Burrage v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that under federal law, a prosecutor must prove that a dealer provided a drug that decisively caused a user's death rather than having merely contributed to it.
Retaining them in the analysis did not appear to compromise the synthesis since the weaker studies merely contributed to fewer themes rather than changing the themes.
Subsequent studies have merely contributed to improve precision of this effect as reflected by a progressive narrowing of the confidence interval.
However, in a large scale tagging of gl8 locus, 58% insertions were caused by Mu1/ Mu25%25% by MuDR, 7% by Mu11, and the remaining elements (Mu8, Mu12, Mu4 and Mu10) collectively merely contributed to 10% (Dietrich et al. 2002).
