Abolitionists' continued efforts to transform the war into one against slavery did not merely "welcome the runaway slave," they also opened the government to the threats "of a foreign invader".
Now it is merely welcome.
And at the National he didn't merely welcome established dramatists such as Pinter, Ayckbourn, Bond, Shaffer, Stoppard, Storey, Wesker, Gray and Frayn.
There, as in all the Disneyland Paris restaurants, service was efficient and friendly, and even rambunctious American kids were made to feel not merely welcome but in charge.
Last week, Pakistan's official statement welcoming the opening of the Taliban office in Doha merely said it welcomed "the start of direct talks between the US and the Taliban", making no mention of any role for the Afghan government.
When William, Catherine and baby George disembark, first in Wellington and later in Sydney, they will be welcomed not merely as the "super-celebrities" they undoubtedly are, but as prospective kings and as a future queen consort of New Zealand and Australia.
It is easy to see why Babel would have welcomed the revolution not merely as personal liberation but for its larger promise of freedom from the degrading past.
Fellow travelers aren't merely a welcome luxury; they are crucial to our bearing our crosses as we seek to follow God.
Conservative party proposals to render the binding decisions of the Strasbourg court merely advisory, if enacted, will be welcomed by regimes less committed to human rights than the UK.
Zhanna A. Kaplina, the school's deputy director, welcomed the program but lamented that it was a merely three-month pilot project.
