This focus is lopsided, Lantos argues, encouraging a physician to try — without much oversight or risk of penalty — a new therapy based merely on his "own imperfect hunches".
Barack Obama's successful election to the presidency was not based merely on his intellect and ability to articulate his vision for change.
Note that the following procedures are based merely on one set of data.
It is well recognized that health-care decisions should not be based merely on one or two studies but take into consideration all the scientific research available on a specific topic [24].
In other words, it is difficult to distinguish a rise in asset prices that is justified by a strong economy from one based merely on speculation, and raising rates in order to puncture a bubble can bring on a recession.
"What we're hoping to do is lend some legitimacy to the notion that a college does not make its decision based merely on who is the busiest.
Third, the Republican state judge's ruling denied that voting was a "fundamental right" like free speech, which allowed him to uphold it based merely on "reasonable" arguments rather than the "compelling arguments" of a "strict scrutiny test".
