"My client's son may have been an acquaintance with a person involved in an evil act, but merely being an acquaintance, merely being a Muslim, merely being from a Russian province, does not mean he isn't deserving of proper treatment by law enforcement officers," he said.
"I was merely reproving you, merely reproving you".
One sees dealers, connoisseurs, the merely rich, the merely curious, the socially favored.
By that measure, your tactics are not merely legal, not merely acceptable, but admirable.
Mr. Pretor-Pinney resists the idea that cloudspotting is merely funny, or even merely fun.
We must become, as in the rest of our national life, citizens not merely consumers, critics not merely cheerleaders.
Whatever the case, the fact remains that if exegesis is considered merely archaeology or merely apologetics, then it strays far from both history and faith, and from what the Gospels really meant.
After all, they are not merely British, and not merely Victorian, but nineteenth-century Oxonian — as fastidious as Carroll himself, who complained to the college steward about the cooking of cauliflower at dinner and the hour at which his window cleaners had arrived.
"If you think about the last half-century, interracial marriage has evolved from being illegal in many states, to merely a taboo, to merely unusual, and with each passing year, it becomes less unusual," said Paul Taylor, executive vice president of the Pew Research Center.
