Our civil liberties are too important to be treated merely as an opportunity for a few easy headlines.
(The other women in his life, such as Gennifer Flowers, are treated merely as political problems to be managed).
It is possible that they were treated merely as pieces of furniture such as the chairs which, according to Ms Main, were less common than guns.
While the preservation of historical identity was considered beneficial, the maintenance of tradition was not; the Talmud was to be treated merely as religious literature, not as legislation.
In Italy, where they never went away, the risk is different: if monuments are treated merely as depoliticized aesthetic objects, then the far right can harness the ugly ideology while everyone else becomes inured.
The movie would lose little if Shakespeare's verse were ditched altogether and the play were treated merely like a narrative framework with dialogue done entirely by Logan or another screenwriter.
Neither Hamas nor Hizbullah can be treated merely as targets in the war on terror because they have deep roots in their societies; yet profound differences exist between them.
These days, they are mentioned in international political and economic discussions, but one often has the impression that their problems are brought up as an afterthought, a question which gets added almost out of duty or in a tangential way, if not treated merely as collateral damage.
Does this imply that the clone will be treated merely as a means?
Conventionally, resources spent on intangibles such as knowledge, design, licenses, and trademarks have been expensed and hence treated merely as costs and not as investments with book values.
Humanity must never be treated merely as a means, but always at the same time as an end (Kant 1797, 209).
