That the Mādhyamika has, and defends, the view that reality lacks inherent nature means that the Mādhyamika is not merely engaging in philosophical sniping of the vitaṇḍā variety.
Surely the Scholastics were not merely engaging in literary fiction when arguing that each person of the Trinity is a proper part of God, and yet also identical with God (see e.g. Abelard, Theologia christiana, bk. III).
Santorum is not merely engaged in a culture war, but "a spiritual war," as he called it four years ago.
Paul Theroux is the thinking person's James Michener, a globe-hopping chronicler of distant lands whose stories, some reported, some invented, aim to inform and broaden, not merely engage, and permit the armchair voyager to stamp new visas in his intellectual passport.
Best-selling science books do not merely engage and educate readers, but they also make policy-related arguments, shape news coverage, and become a topic of wider cultural discussion [ 18].
He wasn't merely engaging with the rap world, but as a hip-hop Trojan Horse aimed at suburbia, the TRL hordes with only boy bands, Britney, and Em in their Case Logics, with an American government that seemed intent on swatting him away like a bleached blonde fly.
When I brought up the challenge to Angela Lignelli-Dipple, she pointed out that diagnostic radiologists aren't merely engaged in yes-no classification.
The studio offers classes that don't merely engage the senses but assault them from all angles, with the aid of electronic muscle-stimulation technology, or EMS.
Therefore, following the "classification principle," rural industrial land use adjustment should not merely pursue economic efficiency and agglomeration efficiency but should also engage in labor absorptivity and environmental benefits.
Mr. McGreevey, who resigned as New Jersey governor after announcing that he was gay and had had an extramarital affair with an aide on his payroll, said that teaching offered a way "not merely to be engaged in the backwash of the recent past but to look forward".
All humanity, not merely Israel, is engaged in a covenant relationship with God, which was spelled out in explicit precepts variously enumerated as 6, 7, or even 10 and occasionally as many as 30 that reflect general humanitarian behaviour and are intended to assure the maintenance of the natural order by the establishment of a proper human society.
