The biological parent, having become sexually involved with one of the actual parents, hasn't merely failed to exercise responsibilities, but shows himself to be arrantly irresponsible to be nothing less than a classic homewrecker.
His party, Congress, had not merely failed to secure a majority at the general election: even the 17-strong rag-bag of a coalition it heads is in the minority.
Let them explain that the WTO is not a global government, but merely a place where governments make agreements, and then subject themselves to arbitration in the event of a dispute.Under each of these headings, governments have not merely failed to make the case for free trade.
Since November the term has not merely been promulgated.
He has not merely been recognised, but embraced.
But the Earth has not merely endured; it has lived.
He has not merely beaten his rivals but routed them.
James Cameron has not merely innovated or incremental improved.
And he hasn't merely appropriated Twain's own language.
Sir Louis Blom-Cooper QC has said that in the Speyer case the legal system "not merely failed one prominent citizen but blotted its own copybook".
