There is such a moment of truth in her description of a cousin's wedding, during which the bride is ostentatiously submissive over the course of a prolonged celebration totally dominated by men, who dance with one another while the women are merely allowed to watch.
Often, if you are merely allowed to openly and shamelessly ask for what you want and receive the support of your partner in having those desires, that can be enough.
By bleating about his or her erudition you are merely allowing your own ignorance to embarrass you.
It is merely allowing other people to do what they choose to do, rather than prescribing to them what they must do.
(Instead, the episode generated a different controversy: viewers noticed that Alex Ariza, Maidana's strength and conditioning coach, pressed some white napkins to Maidana's nose as he tried to recover; in response to suggestions that he had given Maidana something illicit, Ariza said that he was merely allowing Maidana to blow his nose).
The difference between Brady's case and the debate over assisted suicide is only one of degree: whether it is the provision of a poison that a man may freely choose to drink or whether it is merely allowing a man freely to choose not to drink at all, in both instances it is 'we' who do or don't make available the means of death.
But increasingly such bells and whistles are just one part of more elaborate hotel pet programs meant to show travelers that dogs are not merely allowed — they are wanted.
The judge is not merely allowed to sentence the prisoner: her power-right gives her the ability that is, the authority to do so.
Even so, he is quick to admit that not all Seeed Studio products are hits, and humble about the challenge of surviving as a business in an open-source world, where copying good ideas is not merely allowed but encouraged.
That is, Franz merely allowed the death to occur.
