Privately, Mr Romney's inner circle plays down the significance of calling China a currency cheat, arguing that it merely triggers a Treasury probe.
This merely triggered a lot of mumbling and coughing, alas.
It is, however, important to make a distinction between charges for a service (which have to be reasonable) and a charge merely triggered by an event such as a sale.
The goal of the present research was to assess whether communicative gestures, such as gazing and declarative pointing of 12-month-old infants indicate that infants perceive people as intentional agents, or whether infant communicative behaviors are merely triggered by specific perceptual cues in joint visual attention situations.
Brown said Johnson had apparently been planning to "target law enforcement, and make us pay for what he sees as law enforcement's efforts to punish people of colour" since before last week's fatal shootings in Louisiana and Minnesota, which merely triggered his actions.
Though non-intentional models of twisted self-deception dominate the landscape, whether desire, emotion or some combination of these attitudes plays the dominant role in such self-deception and whether their influence merely triggers the process or continues to guide it throughout remain matters of controversy.
Schambra suspects tDCS may not merely trigger the placebo effect, as all treatments do, but actually amplify it.
In Elif Batuman's article about tDCS in this magazine last year, the neurologist Heidi Schambra, of Columbia University, speculated that "tDCS may not merely trigger the placebo effect, as all treatments do, but actually amplify it".
In Elif Batuman's article about tDCS in this magazine last year, the neurologist Heidi Schambra, of Columbia University, speculated that "tDCS may not merely trigger the placebo effect, as all treatments do, but actually amplify it". The somewhat circular power of the headphones, then, may be that they enhance the benefits of believing in the headphones.
A Yes vote would merely trigger negotiations with the federal government.
Mr Green's review merely triggers a new investigation – this time by the new regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority – and possibly a second, by another City watchdog, into the role played by HBOS's auditor, KPMG.
