Merely improving transmissions would vastly increase fuel economy.
In fact, both agree that merely improving access to healthy food does not change consumer behaviour.
It is time to move beyond merely improving the old education model; it's time for education systems to transform.
Merely improving accuracy, which might stop customers from thoroughly checking their orders while sitting at the drive-through window, "would be a major advantage," Mr. Paul said.
That, by all accounts, will be a good deal harder to achieve than merely improving the amount of overtaking in Formula One.
Police officials insist they are not becoming more militarized — in their thinking or actions — but merely improving themselves professionally against evolving threats.
The official line is that the United States is merely improving its military readiness while it waits to see if Iraq provides a complete account of its weapons programs and cooperates with United Nations inspectors.
It's no coincidence that Sanders and Trump, the two current candidates who, as the Times pointed out this weekend, have electrified voters by invoking their own political purity in the form of their shared disdain for Super PACs and conventional party platforms, are both independents, or that each employs a rhetoric of cleansing the country rather than merely improving it.
Vreeland made her strikingly irregular features even more pronounced by applying generous amounts of rouge to her forehead and ears as well as to her cheeks and lips, not merely improving on nature but turning her face -- and her presence -- into an event.
Yet another study – written in 2008 by Michael C. Davis of the Missouri University of Science and Technology and Christian M. End of Xavier University — suggests that not only does the Super Bowl increase per capita income modestly, but that merely improving the win-loss record for a bad N.F.L. team also appears to raise local incomes.
Matter-of-factly, the commission dismissed all previous suggestions about merely improving river navigation.
