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Later in the day, Mr. Mukherjee said that the government was merely seeking to clarify the 1962 law — something it has done before with other laws.
The latter view is perhaps best summarized by a remark of Geroch, Can-bin and Wald (1982): "The purpose of a construction [of 'singular points'], after all, is merely to clarify the discussion of various physical issues involving singular space-times: general relativity as it stands is fully viable with no precise notion of 'singular points'".
Our intention here, however, is merely to clarify what we mean in the limited context of this document.
#Egypt — Egyptocracy (@Egyptocracy) 26 Jan 13 This post was revised after publication to reflect comments on Twitter by the journalist Ghazala Irshad, who asked us to clarify that she was merely reporting on the presence of the Black Bloc, not admiring them as we first reported.
What he fails to clarify that this was merely the last show for the Spiders From Mars, his backing band, as opposed to the last show for David Bowie.
He clarified that the strike was merely requested by Afghan forces, but still insisted that the buck stopped with the US military.
Instead of clarifying at the outset that this "merger of equals" was merely transitional, Schrempp admits that the Stuttgarters nurtured an illusion.
Ms. Huet subsequently clarified that her comment was based on the "words of traders" and was merely intended to relay a "funny and not impossible hypothesis".
