We don't say this to be mean, we're merely giving out some life advice.
"In France, our processes are not as standardized as they are in Germany, where they sow corn for the sole purpose of producing biogas," said Schlienger. "Here we won't divert food crops — we are merely giving new value to waste.
Other monkeys were merely given a sham shot.
African tribes were merely given a choice of who would rob them.
Yet even in its heyday, TAA delayed adjustment, particularly for displaced workers, who were merely given extended unemployment compensation payments without encouragement to find other employment.
If Alice were merely given a massive enough set of responses, it would seem as creative as a human -- which is not as creative as we might like to believe.
It appears however that we must distinguish between such lands as were sacred to the gods themselves and could not be taken from them except by exauguratio, and such as were merely given to the priests as possessio, formed part of the ager publicus.
There was no comment, for example, on whether the fluids studied were titrated to accurate physiological end-points, or were merely given in absolute amounts, irrespective of the underlying physiology.
In making those remarks, Mr. Karzai asserted, he was speaking only to the Taliban and telling them that their bomb attacks were merely giving the Americans a reason to prolong their stay in Afghanistan.
Defense lawyers said the bikers were merely giving a ritual "black eye" to the owner, David Snyder, who was also a Breed member, for speaking harshly in public to a senior member of the group.
(GW II, 203 | VT 203) What we take to be merely given to us in experience can in fact be explained in terms of a productive — and hence active — capacity of the mind, although the procedures of this activity remain unknown to us.
