In an e-mail to several reporters, Mr. Wagner said Hitler was merely presented as "idiosyncratic, odd," and there was little sense of the horrors that he would perpetrate.
Dr. Begun, in a telephone interview, emphasized that he was not disagreeing with the designation of the new species, but was "merely presenting an alternative" to the single-genus interpretation.
At both Mr Clinton's failed summits this year in Geneva with the late Hafez Assad of Syria, and at Camp David with Messrs Arafat and Barak the Israeli side felt it had offered as much as it could; the Arab side felt that the American mediator was merely presenting Israeli ultimatums.
There is no time for the characters — and the actors — to do nothing, to speak casually and to be merely present.
Mr. Grangent said undercover officers working at the airport did not try to solicit sex but were merely present in the restrooms.
Swift is interesting for often appearing vulnerable and calculating at the same time — even her ad-libs are delivered with a cheerleader's precision — but on "New Year's Day," the album's coda and best song, she's merely present.
At the beginning of the decade, he is shipped out to Belfast, where the army must participate in the fiction of being merely present to assist the civilian police (the Royal Ulster Constabulary, as they were then called) in their duties, rather than directly imposing martial law.
Lawyers for some of the teenagers said they were disappointed that prosecutors had not made a distinction between those boys who they actually believe committed violence against Mr. Robles, and those who were merely present or who searched through Mr. Robles's pockets as he lay on the ground, writhing from the attack.
For comparison, it should be noted that, during hydrogenation of anthracene at the presence of commercial cobalt- molybdenum catalyst of Ryazan plant at 430 °C, hydrocarbon destruction processes were merely present because of the lesser extent of the catalyst activity (Sharipov et al. 1990).
