They are merely aids for measuring or outlining bodies.
The use of acrylic paint, while necessary in highlighting distinct features, merely aids in creating a bridge between art and nature, which Eleni seems to accomplish effortlessly.
Furthermore, it is likely that at least a subset of these factors plays no direct role in ribosome assembly but instead merely aids the process, either by providing a scaffold for the binding of essential enzymes, or, perhaps by allosterically affecting the function of enzymes, or even by providing "docking" sites for regulatory modules.
This was a speech nominally about the Internet, but Secretary Clinton again and again talked about the power of people massing and demonstrating, not because of technology but merely aided by it.
This trickery merely aided the party and its support increased in 1993 and 1997.
But they're still a long way from replacing, rather than merely aiding, doctors.
The aim, Bosnian and foreign officials maintain, is not merely aid, but to spread a more rigid Islam, Wahhabism.
While previously such contests had occurred among royal princes the nobles merely aiding one rival or another ambitious nobles now became direct aspirants to the throne.
In 1994, the Supreme Court ruled that private suits — as opposed to suits brought by the S.E.C. — could not be filed against those who merely aided and abetted someone else's fraud.
Despite the request, some counterterrorism officials remain skeptical that Mr. Bayoumi played any role in helping the hijacking plot and may have merely aided the Saudi government in keeping track of potential dissidents in the United States.
Scientists have long known that cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis, shown) and some of their kin stop breathing when threatened by predators, but they supposed that freezing in place merely aided the creature's visual camouflage.
