We're merely supposed to enjoy feelings of vague benevolence.
They're merely supposed to tell consumers when the producer believes the products will reach their peak quality.
He was merely supposed to simulate an opponent's plays for the Bulldogs' first-team defense, but he did not grasp the concept.
(This is one of Rand's reasons for rejecting the idea of a divine creator as the cause of the universe; though it is a matter of dispute whether this objection works if such a creator is merely supposed to be responsible for the existence of everything other than itself).
They argue that Putnam's "just more theory" talk is merely supposed to highlight the theoretical inadequacy of several particular theories of reference; it's not supposed to provide a general argument of the type sketched above (Anderson 1993; Douven 1999; Haukioja 2001).
They are merely supposed to try.
Congress is a deliberative body; the executive is merely supposed to "execute that on which the legislature has already deliberated".
But Yuval Steinitz, a Likud leader in the Israeli Parliament, said that Israel was merely getting what it was supposed to gain from the Oslo accords of 1993 and 1995 -- an end to terrorism -- while the Palestinians were receiving far more: full statehood, without explicit curbs on an eventual military force.
What was supposed to be merely a bail hearing took on the proportions of a full-blown trial, with sharp questions from the presiding magistrate, Desmond Nair, and a withering cross-examination that left the prosecution's main witness, Detective Hilton Botha, grasping for answers that did not contradict his earlier testimony.
It was supposed to be merely a "stick practice, not a contact practice," he added, and so Mr. Junta began yelling at Mr. Costin, "Control this!" Mr. Orlandi said Mr. Costin yelled back, "This is hockey!" Soon afterward, Mr. Orlandi said, a player on Mr. Costin's sons' team hit Mr. Junta's son in the head with an elbow.
