The phrase "addressed merely" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something has been discussed or mentioned in a superficial or minimal way.
Example: "The issue was addressed merely in passing during the meeting, without any in-depth analysis."
Alternatives: "only mentioned" or "discussed briefly".
So it's ironic that their decision that even God should be addressed merely as "thou" created a new jargon of pious grandiloquence.
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.
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.
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).
A lawyer for the city, Celeste Koeleveld, described the decision as addressing "merely a procedural issue" and said the case was not over.
But the draft order does not address encryption, merely noting, "The Internet is a vital national resource".
However, in our study we merely addressed IGF-I bioactivity and not cancer incidence.
Even then, merely addressing the existing blight understates the problem because blight creates more blight.
