Letters that young Douglas wrote to his father were merely acknowledged by a studio clerk.
Some agreed entirely with the transcription, others merely acknowledged its plausibility.
"He merely acknowledged her with a formal nod then proceeded to focus on Joseph's condition," Oonagh told Snell.
The question was whether the resolution merely acknowledged that blessings of same-sex unions took place, or actually affirmed the blessings' doctrinal soundness.
Justice Moore argued that the monument did not establish a state religion but merely acknowledged the role God had played throughout the history of American law.
But after facing criticism for including theories that the planet is only 6,000 years old, the Trust said it had merely acknowledged the presence of such views and was committed to scientific evidence on the origins of the Causeway.
Although they had seen the papers by Brout and Englert and by Higgs, they merely acknowledged them in references, and did not alter their own paper before submitting it.
Obama merely acknowledged the injustice of the way we currently prosecute marijuana offenders, but it won't take too much effort for pundits to spin that into an accusation of racial favoritism, or perhaps something even worse (they can be so damn creative).
