Although downsizing implies a reduction in assets, it is not (as its critics often maintain) merely a reduction in human assets.Other terms have been used to distance the concept from its association with ruthless job-slashing for example, rightsizing and restructuring.
Jonathan Yardley, writing in The Washington Post, said the volume showed that "Maxwell has maintained not merely a high level of consistency but has, if anything, become over the years a deeper and more complex writer".
Others have maintained a merely ornamental presence in politics, voting along factional lines and against their own interests as women.
In fact, the title Organon reflects a much later controversy about whether logic is a part of philosophy (as the Stoics maintained) or merely a tool used by philosophy (as the later Peripatetics thought); calling the logical works "The Instrument" is a way of taking sides on this point.
Critics of soul-based views maintain not merely that immortality is not necessary for meaning in life, but also that it is sufficient for a meaningless life.
The tip behind was outstanding improvisation but merely maintained the excellence already offered to deny Fabian Frei, Xhaka and Salah from distance.
He maintains that merely threatening to test deters purveyors of bogus or adulterated pills.
I'm convinced I defeated her using my Matrix-style moves; witnesses maintain she merely fell asleep.
China had voted in favor of three previous rounds of sanctions aimed at persuading the Iranians to negotiate over their nuclear program, which Iran maintains is merely for peaceful purposes.
Government, Mill maintains, is merely a means to an end, viz. the happiness of the whole community and the individuals composing it.
