The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), a Washington, D.C., based trade group, said it is merely advising prudence: Congress should wait "to see if the voluntary efforts are going to work" before acting, says Jeff Trewitt, a PhRMA spokesperson.
Instead, Lush customers are merely advised by the company to contact their bank or credit card provider for advice.
Myrhvold was more charitable in testimony before Congress when it was clear that he was implicating his former employer -- where developers were merely advised (by lawyers) to avoid reading patents.
He said that he was merely advising Salazar on how to conduct research on potential sabotage "in a hypothetical situation".
Today, a law enforcement official called the letters "simple political urgings," and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the letters were merely advising the Democrats on how to win the November election and were not threatening in any way.
On Friday, one law enforcement official called the letters "simple political urgings," and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said the letters were merely advising the Democrats on how to win the November election and were not threatening in any way.
For years, U.S. law-enforcement officers had chafed at the pretense that they were merely "advising" their Mexican counterparts in the fight against the narcos; some of them wanted American armed forces to have wide operational latitude on the ground, as they had once had in Colombia.
Members of the council made clear, repeatedly, that they were not endorsing Trump's campaign, and were merely advising the candidate.
Actually it turns out that the head, Tony Little, is merely "involved in advising" on how to provide free boarding facilities at a school in Holyport, near Maidenhead.
In usual circumstances his comments would have been merely ill advised, but it was the social and political context which made Clapton's intervention so chilling.
Branagh is the opposite, merely advising: "Be cheerful".
