If you go out with people who are carrying knives, it's no excuse to say you were merely holding the victim down.
But the Jets were merely holding back the flood and when the dam broke -- when Eric Allen intercepted Testaverde and returned it 50 yards for a touchdown to break a scoreless tie early in the second quarter -- it wiped out the Jets like the waters rising on Atlantis.
Journalists at the newspaper felt they were merely holding him accountable.
With wearable electronics being inherently more personal than a handset (which is merely held in the hand, not fixed to the wrist), then — on the surface at least — the modular concept seems to make a lot of sense here.
Chief Justice Chaudhry insists that he is merely holding corrupt and inept politicians to account.
It is possible that Amazon, which controls about 60 percent of the e-book market, is merely holding back with price cuts for the right moment.
If the Russians felt Dudley was merely holding the fort, they could afford to be relaxed about their former bete noire.
In the San Jose-Detroit series, no one can yet figure out if the Red Wings' blowout victory in Game 4 was merely holding off inevitable defeat or if it portends a historic comeback, but everyone knows Detroit's Johan Franzen put on a superhuman effort to make it happen.
Also, Mr. Alladin said that he was merely holding his knife in front of him and swinging it back and forth as an attempt to hold the crowd at bay, but some of the youths who spoke to investigators told them that he was the aggressor, the law enforcement official said.
Digital Chocolate is in fast retreat, and Wooga is merely holding steady.
