A group that merely confirms already held opinion serves no useful purpose.
Rather than merely illustrating already existing philosophical concepts, visual images generated new knowledge for both Aristotelian thinkers and anti-Aristotelians, such as Descartes and Hobbes.
Then everyone started complaining that the analogy didn't quite hold, since America's robber barons actually built entire industries from scratch, whereas Russia's robber barons merely stole already-built industries and stripped them bare.
"This merely aggravates an already sensitive situation," says Michael Stewart, principal of Calgary's Ballinacurra Group.
If it doesn't, it contains no discovery and merely reproduces the already known and familiar.
However, the history and politics merely enrich an already superbly confident thriller.
But even if Merkel was the proximate cause, Kaufmann said she merely kicked an already emerging phenomenon into high gear.
Lies merely confuse an already confusing world and lead them to distrust the people they love most.
Now she couldn't tell if his lack of reaction meant that he was thinking or merely stunned or already concocting a story.
The days when a Broadway musical could make a new star, instead of merely presenting an already established one, may be gone for good.
From now on, if it weren't the case already, merely scheduling a concert date in Israel will be considered a political act.
