Earlier this year, one of the longest running legends about horses in nightclubs was cleared up, when Bianca Jagger wrote to the Financial Times explaining that she did not ride a horse into Studio 54 in New York on 2 May 1977, but merely mounted one that happened to be there already.
Is it the joy/guilt in seeing that someone else has done all that work — the stringing and the plugging and the testing — while it took us until mid-December merely to mount a couple of light strands around the porch perimeter?
Sure enough, Davy Russell was obliged to drive his mount along merely to join issue as they turned in, with Flemenstar still tanking along under Andrew Lynch.
But as the killings mount, this policy is merely heightening suspicions that America is not serious about supporting the protests and preparing for a post-Assad Syria.
Speed, some said, was merely intended to avoid mounting division and chaos in the Capitol.
"This is, indeed, a very strong message and is not merely a means of mounting pressure on the government".
This week in Paris, however, she said she was upset that the armed rebels had moved from merely defending protests to mounting attacks on government forces.
Kauto Star was applauded off the course by a respectful crowd, while those of us who had taken Tony McCoy's advice and backed his mount Synchronised, were merely relieved to have a rival out of the race.
Otherwise we must merely add this to the mounting pile of questionable Klass-related anecdotes, and await the next one with eyebrows pre-raised.
Labor groups and teachers in other cities voiced support for strikers here, suggesting that the fight in Chicago was merely one glimpse at a mounting national struggle over unionized teachers' pay, conditions, benefits and standing.
