A girl who isn't merely "strong" or "brave" or any of the epithets female leads often have attached to them.
Second, the partnerships do not merely have strong advocacy skills but also display a keen business sense.
We must not merely be stronger than our enemy, but better than our enemy.
He regards the defending champions as the best: not merely the strongest in terms of this tournament, or the finest of the current World Cup cycle, or even the most accomplished outfit of a professional era stretching back two decades.
For him it's not merely strange.
For Minnelli, Bacall wasn't merely a strong or tough woman.
OK, the XC90 is so hot that getting a hold of one for anything close to invoice isn't going to happen until later this year, when supply finally matches demand, while demand for the MDX is merely strong, not manic.
All these issues are not merely bilateral and have strong probabilities to generate protracted regional disputes and controversies over the shared water resources.
In fact, many events are most naturally regarded as not merely unrepeated, but in a strong sense unrepeatable — the 2000 presidential election, the final game of the 2001 NBA play-offs, the Civil War, Kennedy's assassination, certain events in the very early history of the universe.
The alternative is that MFG→PPC information flow was not unidirectional, but merely stronger than the coexisting, but less dominant, PPC→MFG information flow.
