It merely stops the practice of cutting the fins off at sea. "The amount of shark catch hasn't decreased and populations are still declining.
But the court order merely stopped him from posting the blueprints online for anybody to read; it didn't bar him from selling the plans online and then digitally transmitting them to the buyer.
But the core statement is as ambiguous as it is catchy: was God a actual being that had ceased to exist, or had we merely stopped believing in him?
Meanwhile, Kosovo's protectors would rejoice if Albanians and Serbs merely stopped killing each other; a wave of anti-Serb violence in March was a severe setback.
Then, in 2010, Theresa May reacted to police pressure by scrapping completely the written record for those merely stopped, as part of her fight against bureaucracy.
Cathrine Jansson-Boyd, a consumer psychologist at Anglia Ruskin University, points to the subtleties of the switch: we haven't stopped going to shops; We've merely stopped shopping in them.
In 2007 the United States exported $21.7 billion-worth of scrap; if current trends continue that figure could fall by half, or worse.Adding insult to injury, a Baltimore County executive says that metal thefts have merely stopped increasing; they have yet to decline.
This time they have merely stopped Theresa May from winning outright.
"The work is telling us that these [melanocyte] stem cells don't have an infinite capacity for self-renewal," says geneticist Ian Jackson of the Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, U.K. If the cells merely stopped working, preventing gray hair would be relatively straightforward, he says: "We could turn them back on".
If a person is waiting for a good opportunity to commit a crime and the government's undercover tactic simply provides that person with an opportunity to commit the crime, then the government has not created a new criminal but merely stopped a would-be criminal from harming society.
