Sometimes the targets don't even matter, when a shooter is so irrational that they are merely drawn to the act of killing lots of people at random.
Supporters hope he is merely drawing breath, in the middle of a (mostly) glittering career.
He wasn't attacking feminism – let alone blaming it – but was merely drawing attention to a side effect.
It is merely drawing a line, which the Supreme Court has recognized, between religious and secular education, and directing its funds to secular education.
I'm merely drawing a parallel here.
Of course, Roeder could be merely drawing attention to his case.
In response to the criticism against him, Albrecht said that he was merely drawing parallels between the two cubs.
When readers (and not only Christians) criticized Tyson for dissing one of the two holiest days of the Christian calendar, he feigned surprise that anyone could've been insulted by his words, protesting that he was merely drawing attention to Newton's birthday.
Goldberg (2000) observed that in insisting on categorical diagnoses, "rather than carving nature at the joints, we appear to be merely drawing lines in the fog".
Therefore, the decision to validate the PSS questionnaire was merely drawn on the fact that there is always room for new scales in Greek which can capture an aspect that previously was left unexplored or understudied.
