To the point that, for those too old now to get their class photographs taken on the grand staircase, the Massachusetts State House is not merely one more site on Boston's foot-fatiguing Freedom Trail but also a deep and not-to-be-missed delight.
"He didn't even work at Xbox". The Kinect project attracted lots of enthusiasm within Microsoft, Kipman said, and Lee was a "bright kid" but merely one of "hundreds" of Microsoft coders "contributing from the fringes" who "lacked perspective" on how business works.
Cavagnaro said the university was not appealing the findings of the N.C.A.A. Committee on Infractions, merely one of the penalties.
The new surveillance technology deployed in Afghanistan is merely one component of the US doctrine of "full-spectrum dominance".
The counter argument, of course, is that Syria is merely one part of the OPCW's work, and the prize is intended to honour 16 years of efforts.
Merely one month after the UN approved a resolution demanding "rapid, safe and unhindered aid access" in Syria, including across borders, a report declared that the situation "remains extremely challenging".
Putin recently turned up to a convention of bikers, dressed in black and riding a Harley – merely one of a succession of stunts that has seen him ski down a volcano, pose with a polar bear and dive to the bottom of Russia's Lake Baikal in a submersible.
Though Virgin is merely one among many record labels owned by either Warner Music or EMI, it is a big company with a big stable of top-selling performers.
Mr. Bernanke said the Fed would be merely one of several players on the new council, and he endorsed the Obama administration's proposal to have the Treasury lead that council.
Unfortunately, with so much of the public attention focused on the NSA's misdeeds, there is a tendency to forget that the NSA is merely one of a growing number of clandestine intelligence agencies tasked with spying on the American people.
Co-operation is not merely one-way: the US military outsources work to the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment, currently operated by a consortium of Serco, Jacobs Engineering and Lockheed Martin, the latter two being US companies.
