Now, he says, they merely want somebody to acknowledge publicly that the country has suffered a disaster and that the culprits should take the blame.
A study by Carnegie Mellon University using brain imaging found that merely listening to somebody speak on the phone led to a 37% decrease in activity in the parietal lobe, where spatial tasks are processed.
If somebody has merely been questioned about or accused of crimes, including child sexual abuse, they can be profiled as being risky in that category.
While the prevailing view has been that a person in hypnosis is in a different psychological state from somebody who has merely slipped into a reverie (those who stand by that hypothesis are said to be in the "state" camp), others now argue that the difference is merely one of degree.
V&E says it shouldn't be sued for merely providing legal advice to somebody else.
The person alone is "somebody" rather than merely "something", and this sets him apart from every other entity in the visible world.
But he added: "I don't believe somebody should lose public office merely because they used inappropriate words and displayed a bad temper".
"It became apparent to me that college merely trained people to work for somebody else," he says.
Will sharing a telephone number with, say, Egypt's spies, lead to the arrest and torture of somebody who should instead be merely watched?
But many people still want to vote for somebody they feel can do the job, not merely against someone who irritates them.
