Emerging economies are not merely challenging that lead in innovation.
The ultimate example, of course, is Herbert von Karajan, whose 1963 account with his Berlin Philharmonic infamously earned the condemnation of the composer ("tempo di hoochie-coochie"); its velvet languor of pace and texture and virtual absence of incisive accents doesn't merely challenge the work's essential spirit but attempts to obliterate it.
Kant did not merely challenge the logic of, or poke fun at the extravagances of Leibniz's metaphysics, though he is not above a joke regarding the monads — potential human lives — he might be swallowing with his morning coffee (2 327).
And as for Gov. Romney, the debate accords Mr. Schieffer an opportunity to prevent the governor from merely challenging Mr. Obama on Middle East minutiae without establishing good cause that he can do a better job than his opponent.
You can dismiss these as merely challenges for those wealthy enough to visit restaurants.
The action of occupying a university is not merely to challenge university managements to come out against cuts, nor is it only to put pressure on the coalition to stop talking misleadingly about "togetherness" when it comes to education reforms.
In this article, Krugman outlines how Trump repeatedly lies about points that are demonstrably false, and when challenged, merely repeats them.
Certainties were being exploded, and perhaps there was a new integrity in experimentalism and confusion, in a cinema which challenged not merely the authorities who had allowed the horrors to happen, but which challenged those classical forms of storytelling and representation culturally licensed by the powers-that-be.
We value our personal opinions; our opinions are based almost completely on our biases, our biases are informed by the apparatuses of convention, and when challenged we merely seek to prove our opinions to be factual rather than question our own assumptions.
A performance like Wednesday's, if it can be repeated often enough, could change the way the world views American soccer and perhaps even the way American players view themselves, not as merely able to challenge the top international teams but to beat them.
