The effect is cheap and bullying; not one of these mothers sought to downgrade fatherhood, they were merely dealing with tricky post-split arrangements, as many people have to do.
According to Leibniz, the terms 'efficiently cause' and 'produce' are synonymous: "It must be admitted that in saying that "efficient cause" is what produces and 'effect is what is produced, you are merely dealing in synonyms" (New Essays A vi, 6, 228).
In other words, we are merely dealing with two different ways for representing the same physical reality, and it is possible to switch between these different representations by means of a unitary transformation, i.e. an operation that is analogous to an innocuous rotation of the frame of reference.
This will usually convince even the nosiest (no pun intended) observer that you were merely dealing with an itch, which is not forbidden.
Most historians have agreed that we are not merely dealing with a movement "within Judaism," but the makings of a "new religion" that comes to be called Christianity.
An uneasy feeling has spread among investors that this latest of a series of agreements by the Europeans was merely a piecemeal deal to help Europe limp through to the end of the year.
Columbia had to consider whether the library was "merely a tactic by Merck dealing with their competition from SmithKline Beecham," he continues.
Lamoriello, however, denied that the deal was merely to rent a player for a playoff run.
The accusations against the officials had spurred a national debate about whether the accepting of the state posts constituted a crime or was merely an unsavory political deal.
They argued that the deal was merely based on voluntary pledges and that there was no mechanism to punish countries that failed to meet those commitments.
