The phrase "address merely" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to emphasize that something is only being addressed in a superficial or limited way.
Example: "The report seems to address merely the surface issues without delving into the underlying problems."
Alternatives: "only address" or "just touch on".
A lawyer for the city, Celeste Koeleveld, described the decision as addressing "merely a procedural issue" and said the case was not over.
So it's ironic that their decision that even God should be addressed merely as "thou" created a new jargon of pious grandiloquence.
By Russell Maloney The New Yorker, February 12 , 1944P. 15 The Jersey City Printing Company received a note from a man in Jacksonville, addressed merely to the street and number; it said: "Several months ago I jotted down your address with the intention of writing you for some information.
By Frederick J. Orner and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, June 8 , 1935P. 13 During the period when a manufacturer could send out his circulars addressed merely to "Occupant", or "Householder" a friend of ours saw such a circular lying on the hall table of his apartment house.
Most of them (46.7%) addressed merely the instant needs of those families who are infertile or sub-fertile.
Borrowing Shepardson and Pizzini's terminology, input (low-level) questions addressed merely factual knowledge, for example: "Is Cdk a protein?" The processing (medium) level required students to draw relationships within and between information, data, and principles.
The foundations are certainly is not addressed merely by trying to relate physical principles to biology, for example, presenting neuronal signaling conduction in terms of electrical circuits (when in fact, the action potential is a more complex, dynamic molecular system).
But the draft order does not address encryption, merely noting, "The Internet is a vital national resource".
This is an important result because it implies that any kind of intervention that targets population health should address, not merely the intrinsic capacity of a person, but also his or her environment.
Mr. Holder's Council of Black Churches address is merely the latest of his election-year moves that charge racial discrimination of one kind or another.
