Lawyers for the Republican Party, accusing Democrats of merely searching for more Gore votes, protested the decision.
He did not intend to steal the boat, he said, and was merely searching for a place to sleep.
Instead, they are shown transit routes, stations and stops even if they are merely searching for, say, a bagel store.
Merely searching for the word "Egypt" in Sina Weibo, one of China's leading Twitter-like services, produces a warning that "according to the relevant laws, regulations and policies, the search results have not been displayed".
Less than happy but still in love, the couple, who met as students eight years ago at the Tisch School of the Arts at N.Y.U., were merely searching for a way, in effect, to break up without fully breaking up.
McKinnon has consistently argued that he was just a "bumbling computer nerd" who caused no damage and was merely searching for evidence to prove his theories that the CIA had covered up the existence of aliens.
I would have thought that any murder committed in Minnesota could be excused on the ground that the assailant was merely searching for a novel way to keep warm.
As a black student, if you're politically involved, you become a target for racists; if you're looking to fit in, you invite condescension; if you're pursuing success, you risk sacrificing your values; if you're merely searching for your own path, you seem to belong nowhere and are even more vulnerable.
Instead, I think that people are merely searching "Surface Pro" when searching for the new model.
"Merely searching the web for the privacy-enhancing software tools outlined in the XKeyscore rules causes the NSA to mark and track the IP address of the person doing the search," it said.
