But they had merely put off the inevitable.
The state, meanwhile, has merely put off many tough decisions, monitors said.
Harvard has accused a prominent professor of serious failings yet has merely put him on book leave.
The revolution had not actually brought many revolutionaries to power — for the most part, it had merely put the opposition, formerly the ruling party, back into government.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, writing for the majority, said the law had merely put "foreign works on an equal footing with their U.S. counterparts".
But if succeeding in search is Microsoft's Mount Everest, as some executives there have suggested, Bing's success so far has merely put the company at base camp.
Instead, he has merely put off the difficult questions for his successors to solve, and he has provided an inglorious sideshow to the continuing crises in Syria and Libya that are leading to the drowning of refugees in the Mediterranean.
Caryn Heilman, Francisco Rider, Ms. Boggan, Ms. Hastings and Mr. Whitton enclosed one another in hoops in "Sanddial (Part 2)," leaving the audience free to decide if they had formed a community or had merely put themselves into confinement.
If Trump had merely put that money in an index fund based on the Standard & Poor's 500 index — the kind many Americans use to save for retirement — he would be worth $6 billion today.
The comptroller said the state, however, had merely put off much of its budget woes until next year, borrowing $4.2 billion in bonds backed by the state's general fund and money it receives from tobacco companies as part of a court settlement.
