The culminating chorus, "Ruht wohl" ("Rest well"), should be melting; here it merely spoke of consolation.
It's a good point, but it merely speaks to the importance of making all work in the U.S. legal.
"I don't think I was merely speaking broadly, Senator," he said when Hirono pressed him on the issue.
Police officers have admitted in depositions that they made up rules for monitoring organizations, sometimes deciding to create files on people who merely spoke at rallies.
In 2005, when Carly Fiorina was pushed out of Hewlett-Packard, she merely spoke about her regret that she and the board had differing strategies, and said she respected its decision.
Some jurors might conclude that she merely spoke up to clear her name, as Ms. Stewart's legal team maintains, while others would agree with prosecutors that in doing so she could kill two birds with one stone.
Unless Grohl is being coyly overliteral – if one of Eavis's colleagues rang him, say, or if she merely spoke to the Foo Fighters' management – there could well be other potential headliners that are higher on the festival's list.
My goodness, Ditka merely spoke his mind.
Wellington's defenders claim he was merely speaking in anger but I think it went further than that: the aloof, snobbish, patrician Duke really believed in the natural order of things: the rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate.
Mr Donovan merely speaks of "considerable disagreement".
This time, he said, she was merely speaking in shorthand.
