I make three arguments: first, in creating a malaria control program, the Argentine state did not merely respond to a given "social fact" but rather was the key participant in constructing the "malaria problem".
He said last week that the United States "will not merely respond after the fact" of a terrorist attack but will "take the fight to al-Qaeda and its extremist affiliates whether they plot and train in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and beyond". That rhetoric is not much different than Bush's pledge to "take the battle to the enemy..
The ones who survived did not merely respond more effectively to their abuse; they found purpose and meaning in it.
The result: desires, in organisms that can truly represent their environment internally (and not "merely" respond to it). Bruce Waller looks at the implications for moral philosophy in The Natural Selection of Autonomy (1998).
Fairooz was not merely responding" to her arrest.
Congressional colleagues representing every political viewpoint across America spoke with one passionate and determined voice to ensure that we would lead, not merely respond to this global crisis.
Kimberly Paschall, an attorney for the government, argued during a court hearing on Friday that "Ms. Fairooz was not merely responding" to her arrest.
In 2010, White House counterterrorism director John O. Brennan said that the United States "will not merely respond after the fact" of a terrorist attack but will "take the fight to al-Qaeda and its extremist affiliates whether they plot and train in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and beyond".
And the visual cortex didn't merely respond – the more complicated the math, the greater the activity in the vision center.
(An additional series of tests checked turtles' responses to fragrances including jasmine, lemon, and cinnamon against the mud mud was still what drew turtles to the surface, suggesting that they weren't merely responding to any new scent).
