He doesn't say a word, merely nodding in acknowledgement of Stephen's greeting. |
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By now, his hostile rhetoric has carried him beyond the self-discipline of consistency, and he becomes merely quarrelsome and captious. |
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The second point, my Lord, is that merely being offered some nebulous assurance at this stage provides absolutely no comfort whatsoever. |
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The physician merely waves an electronic wand in front of the patient's chest. |
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Nor is it merely that their absorption into domesticity makes functional sense in a commercial and industrial society. |
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Courts are not supposed to decide questions which are merely moot, theoretical, abstract or hypothetical. |
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Other participants see the education battle as merely the front of the Party's war on tradition. |
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The difference between God and man must be qualitative, not merely quantitative. |
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This wasn't a real football drill, where the banging of heads can make one's teeth chatter or develop headaches in those merely watching. |
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Inspectors would not aim to reward excellence or to measure quality, merely to identify incompetence or fraud. |
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They are also very expensive, which is merely unfortunate since, like intaglios and Abyssinian cats, they are infinitely desirable. |
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I merely thought that Raczysnki was warming the crowd up for the inevitable madness to come. |
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I left the theatre, not raging at a failed masterpiece, but merely feeling a little jaded and nonplussed. |
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He withdrew the move, and made another, claiming that he was merely adjusting the pieces on the board. |
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Each time it is returned, he merely washes it thoroughly and wears it again. |
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Incidentally, the waterboard in these photos wasn't merely one among many torture devices highlighted at the prison museum. |
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He stressed that all times he was merely forwarding queries and requests from the man's sister. |
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The developments were not, however, in new types of clock, merely in improved designs of sundials and water clocks. |
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Consequently, Chalk should not be perceived as merely a thick pelagic ooze deposited in a tectonically quiescent period. |
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He merely jerked her forward so that she was much closer to him than she would ever like to be. |
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Northam's acid comments aside, however, Stoppard falls short of his Shakespeare In Love triumph, while John Barry's soundtrack merely ticks over. |
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The President is not merely proposing to impose his jerry-built system on soldiers captured on the battlefield, however. |
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I was merely commenting how superior the Assos jersey seemed, compared to the other jerseys in my burgeoning collection. |
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It is merely worth observing that the claims he makes are in some ways pretty modest. |
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In private, profit-oriented businesses, this is merely the way of the world. |
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These days, White House service seems merely a way station on the road to the best-seller list. |
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However, by getting both the quotation and its author wrong, he merely exposed his own lack of education. |
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More than merely improving the Museum's collection, the Gilman acquisition transforms it. |
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This could lead not merely to low alcohol content but to acrid and pungent tastes and aromas as well. |
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Tuesday's skirmish with the tribunal judges was merely the latest of many acrimonious bust-ups. |
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His youthful views seem merely that, youthful, like his habit of drinking milk in hope of bulking up his slight, small frame. |
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Yahoo is merely hooking up with the most alpha male company it can still find in order to survive. |
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It is not merely an authenticity that Brooks uses to connect with his admirers, but his embrace of an average identity. |
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Wins such as Hobby Lobby, far from leading them to adopt a more relaxed posture, merely prove the need for more work. |
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A distinction is drawn between Abatement Notices which require works to be done and those which merely require the recipient to abate the identified nuisance. |
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He was no longer talking to her, merely venting his rage out loud. |
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In aug. 2003, Muller said he believed Cobalt was merely a holding facility. |
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In my small garden I have three compost bins and two water butts so I do not lack facilities to dispose of vegetable waste, merely space to accommodate an unwanted bin. |
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He said officers no longer arrest people for merely having an open beer bottle but instead ask them to leave the alcohol behind. |
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The big finale, which should be an edge-of-seat cliffhanger, barely quickens the pulse, and merely provides Willis with the opportunity to grandstand. |
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The facts do not cease to matter merely because a white cop killed a black boy. |
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Looked at more deeply, it seems to license quietism and indifference to things in the world, on the grounds that nothing that merely happens to people is really bad. |
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The passenger-rail behemoth sucks up more taxpayer dollars than ever, and its ridership gains are merely a blip. |
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But Silva, hapless Silva, got his merely for tangling with the Colombian goalkeeper in a clumsy melee of limbs. |
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Even if the movie was merely as intended as a making-of-a-hit, behind-the-scenes project, it essentially failed. |
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She shoved him back, but the space between the walls was not much bigger than the two of them, and he merely reached a hand back to steady his balance. |
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And it merely delayed the apocalyptic maelstrom that followed rather than preventing it. |
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Albany is not a place filled with people, but merely a place where state government operates and Cuomo can work to pass laws. |
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Irritated members of Congress say that the authorization of the train-and-equip mission is merely about optics. |
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But if Portnoy is himself our satirist, he is merely shocking the bourgeoisie in rather conventional ways. |
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All of this is an abomination not merely as a matter of principle, but even in purely practical terms. |
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Here, she kept things classy on The Tonight Show, merely telling Leno about the ballroom dance she was learning. |
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Suspense, of which Hitchcock remains the acknowledged master, is merely the form of cinema that focuses most self-consciously on this general truth of cinematic experience. |
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Later reports say that authorities claimed to be merely escorting him back to his house arrest. |
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In the latter case the holding of the meeting would have served no useful purpose and would merely waste the available assets of the bankrupt's estate. |
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Are the more modest price rises across Britain as a whole merely a reflection of the fact there are huge urban wastelands where no one will ever want to live again? |
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Each time it merely turned an engine around or coaled and watered it, such as when a yard engine came in for a crew change, the roundhouse was credited with a half-dispatch. |
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Among other faults, it merely shifts the allocation for visas instead of increasing the total number. |
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At first Wales and Sanger conceived of Wikipedia merely as an adjunct to Nupedia, sort of like a feeder product or farm team. |
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It made Canada a full partner, and reduced the obligation to obtain consent for the use of nuclear weapons to merely requiring consultation. |
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Beaufre, by contrast an opportunist, saw plans merely a means to an end, without much inherent value. |
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Nearly all of the islands have lochs, but the watercourses are merely streams draining the high land. |
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I wish merely to caution you against the whole tone of L'Etoile's suggestion, by calling your attention to its ex parte character at the outset. |
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What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence. |
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The Leader also advises the House on proper procedure when necessary, but such advice is merely informal, rather than official and binding. |
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It is not actually necessary for the governor general to sign a bill passed by a legislature, the signature being merely an attestation. |
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However, as conventions are merely convention and not law, the House of Lords would not be taking illegal action if they were to act otherwise. |
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However, some have argued that as relative poverty is merely a measure of inequality, using the term 'poverty' for it is misleading. |
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This does not 'make' the person a saint, it merely recognizes the fact and announces it to the rest of the Church. |
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Some maintain that arbitration avoids prejudiced juries and sympathy verdicts, but such remarks may merely reflect their utterers' antijury bias. |
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The animals were not merely illustrated out of an interest in the natural world. |
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Sometime after the incident, Block claimed that he had subsequently apologised to Wood for his behaviour, and Wood had merely brushed it off. |
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Barlow explained in interviews that Williams had given up trying to offer creative input and merely did as he was told. |
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Movies like this are not merely difficult to make at all, but almost impossible to make well. |
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It is not enough to merely explicitize tacit knowledge. Rather, tacit knowledge has to be put in some sort of system to be useful. |
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The law of reason and consequent he considered not as different, but merely as expressing metaphysically what these express logically. |
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Some of the charges against them... are due merely to the false light in which they are regarded. |
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He merely got tantalizing scraps of information flung at him from the boundary wall of faydom. |
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At each stage the de facto situation precedes the de jure assertion, which merely regularizes an existing fact of life. |
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However, the changes have been criticized as being too slow or merely cosmetic. |
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All the defendants denied the charges and claimed that they were merely protesting in defence of their rights. |
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The Brazilian regions are merely geographical, not political or administrative divisions, and they do not have any specific form of government. |
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Some are merely places where farmers have collected stones removed from a field. |
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If we imagined a person capable of comprehending infinity, we should merely think that he was able infinitely to add up finities. |
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The Lisbon Treaty merely states that they should take account of the results of the elections when choosing whom to nominate. |
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From the perspective of the lower classes, a peak was merely added to the social pyramid. |
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Such masks were occasionally also specific to a particular role, and an actor could then play multiple roles merely by switching masks. |
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The concept turned out to be merely a flash in the pan and is no longer used. |
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Afterwards the King merely expressed regret that he had broken the shaft of his favourite axe. |
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The message merely stated that General Grey would arrive that evening from Windsor. |
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It seems to me that she might, by merely sitting quietly at his side, saying little and looking less, get nigher his heart. |
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A man who gained his ends by trickery of a kind that was not merely immoral but criminal. |
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Words are the furnace by means of which merely subjective connections made by individual human beings are converted into noematic meanings. |
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The custom has been to some extent sanitised by tourist guides who claim that the spitting is merely for good luck. |
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Until 1856 the Canongate was not merely a street, but the name of the surrounding burgh, separate from Edinburgh and outside the Flodden Wall. |
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Each band also has its own tie, which can match the kilt tartan, or is sometimes merely a block colour. |
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By the time Llywelyn the Great won the wars in Gwynedd, in the late 12th century, lords in Deheubarth merely appear among his clients. |
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Ernie constantly badgered me to get her to talk to him but I suspected she would throttle him if he merely glanced in the direction of her norks. |
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This is not to say that one has access to an eternal blueprint or that one is merely going along with some foredetermined cosmic plan. |
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But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. |
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Louis's celebrity power was not, however, merely directed toward African Americans. |
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By anagramming letters and altering the order of words, he produces two quatrains, which we content merely to quote as examples of gadzookery. |
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Roberto then took three swings, but did not move his legs or hips, just the arms and wrists-he was merely getting his eye in. |
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However, killer whales are merely seasonal visitors to Arctic waters, and do not approach the pack ice in the summer. |
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Some sceptics asserted the promoters were merely using silver from somewhere else, to ramp up the shares. |
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At first the outposts were merely summer camps, but from the early 1630s, a few individuals started to overwinter. |
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Originally the meeting worked effectively however later it merely became a forum for discussion and for nobles to express their dissatisfaction. |
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They were encouraged to retain their distinctive cultures and traditions and required merely to integrate. |
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But merely passing through the first floor was, of course, a giant leap for ghostkind. |
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County Councils and Municipalities are independent of one another, the former merely covers a larger geographical area than the latter. |
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In other cases, by analogy, the consonant was written double merely to indicate the lack of lengthening. |
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Such commercial extinction does not mean that the species is extinct, merely that it can no longer sustain a fishery. |
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A random assemblage of fish merely using some localised resource such as food or nesting sites is known simply as an aggregation. |
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Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation. |
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To see their shared Germanic heritage, one merely has to note the many common words that are very similar in the two languages. |
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That merely confirmed many of the existing stereotypes about speakers of the language. |
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Still, I see you mean well enough, and are merely suffering from the debilitating cheerfulness of youth. You will soon grow out of that. |
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So Henry II was king of England, but he was merely Duke of the Normans and Angevins and Lord of Aquitaine. |
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The central position of the rogues in the plot gives unity to what could be merely a collection of gullings. |
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He was not influenced by sordid considerations.... Had she been merely of illegitimate birth, he would have overlooked the bar sinister. |
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While he carried the title of viceroy of Egypt, his subordination to the Ottoman porte was merely nominal. |
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When merely expressing submission to a dominant animal, the posture is similar, but without arching the back or curving the body. |
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The grooming seems to disadvantage fleas rather than merely having a social function. |
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Duarte Pacheco had served the previous king as a squire, and had served King Manuel merely as a high ranking servant. |
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In other words, it is a mistake to regard this or any film text 'as if it were merely hermetic', or an isolated island. |
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Its atmosphere might have been provincial, but it was never merely parochial. |
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For example, willow and coleus can be propagated merely by inserting a stem in water or moist soil. |
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Indeed, the ferocious combat itself was passed over as merely an ephemeral event. |
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They also contend that those who believe in paranormal phenomena do so for merely psychological reasons. |
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Callixtus declined to support Louis, however, and merely advised the two rulers to seek peace. |
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Some readers, then and now, find this teasing of their expectations merely irritating. |
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It is merely recorded, and any tampering of an odometer would not be discovered as part of the MOT inspection. |
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Opinions of these poems vary between those who find them captivating and brilliant, to those who find them merely clever and contrived. |
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In modern times, some authors have cast doubt on whether Claudius was murdered or merely succumbed to illness or old age. |
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Further, these fragments in 4Q158 are not merely harmonistic, but also hyperexpansive. |
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The other merely needs jealousy and bate, of which there are great and easily accessible reservoirs in every human heart. |
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For beginners wishing to merely finish a marathon, a minimum of four months of running four days a week is recommended. |
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By my own admission I pfaffed around a bit here but I'm going to claim that I was merely enjoying the moment! |
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It is uncertain whether she was legally married to Constantius or merely his concubine. |
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The shape of the hook shank can vary widely from merely straight to all sorts of curves, kinks, bends and offsets. |
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He did not propose any specific scheme of reform, but merely a motion that the House inquire into possible improvements. |
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In many cases, the nasality was not contrastive and was merely present as an additional surface articulation. |
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The translation was undertaken at Alfred's command by Werferth, Bishop of Worcester, with the king merely furnishing a preface. |
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I make no claim to understanding it, I treat it merely impressionistically. |
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Domitian's authority was merely nominal, however, foreshadowing what was to be his role for at least ten more years. |
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Instead he merely dismissed Titus Petronius Secundus, and replaced him with a former commander, Casperius Aelianus. |
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But these sums were but a small part of their income, were merely pin money for their wives and children. |
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We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another. |
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An actual and not a merely philosophic intersectionalist was William Gilmore Simms of Carolina. |
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Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket. |
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The most degenerate souls did at last sleep in the bodies of trees, and grew up merely into plantal life. |
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Whether Machiavelli is overstating issues and Piero had merely ordered a thorough accounting is unknown. |
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The cantons of the Helvetic Republic had merely the status of an administrative subdivision with no sovereignty. |
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Cromwell's programme, assisted by Anne Boleyn's influence over episcopal appointments, was not merely against the clergy and the power of Rome. |
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Outlaws also, though merely in civil cases, are intestable, in respect to their personal property, while their outlawry subsists. |
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Docetism held that Jesus' humanity was merely an illusion, thus denying the incarnation. |
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Knowing the right person or merely being in the right place at the right time continues to be the best way of getting a job. |
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But these breaks depend merely on the number of related forms which have become extinct. |
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The creation and expansion of such social relations is not merely observed on a material level. |
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In the end of 1975, for the first time in 500 years, Portugal was again a merely European country and its Navy a merely North Atlantic navy. |
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Thus, the authority of the president, when he was not a magistrate, was void in judicial matter and merely signed the verdicts. |
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However, availability of sufficient rainfall to supply tap water to both metropolitan areas in the future is merely speculative. |
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Salazar refused to recognize the transfer of sovereignty, believing the territories to be merely occupied. |
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Preformation, as even Aristotle spotted, merely postpones the problem, for how did the homunculus get its shape? |
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Eating meat does not conform to God's original intention, and resorting to carnivorism merely accentuates an unattractive part of human nature. |
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There are no contemporary descriptions of Yermak and all portraits are merely estimations. |
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Nowhere did he claim to have discovered the eastern tip of Asia, merely that he had rounded a great rocky projection on his way to the Anadyr. |
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At the time, Shanghai was merely a small walled county seat in the old quarter around the present city's Yu Garden. |
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The Venetian Senate passed sumptuary laws, but these merely resulted in changes in fashion in order to circumvent the law. |
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They will be here at five, take merely the clothes necessary for the journey and her jewel-casket. |
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Knowing a word, however, is not as simple as merely being able to recognize or use it. |
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Or the merely verbal pressure of jawbonings by prominent people may try to silence a certain point of view. |
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Sometimes, these places were named before spelling changes but more often the spelling merely serves as an affectation. |
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Furthermore, Johnson, unlike Bailey, added notes on a word's usage, rather than being merely descriptive. |
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The choice of IPA letters may reflect the theoretical claims of the author, or merely be a convenience for typesetting. |
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The French Revolution differed from other revolutions in being not merely national, for it aimed at benefiting all humanity. |
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The French people expressed no respect for the dictates of foreign monarchs, and the threat of force merely hastened their militarisation. |
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In process of time, the comma was added, which was then merely a perpendicular line, proportioned to the body of the letter. |
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By 1585, Geneva, once the wellspring of the reform movement, had become merely its symbol. |
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However, Dundas merely assessed the enemy positions and then withdrew, arguing that the French were too well entrenched to risk an assault. |
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They verily are not the true congregation of Christ who merely boast of his name. |
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In the past, some theologians distinguished between rubrics they considered of Divine origin and those merely of human origin. |
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As stated above, this is merely an honorary title involving no additional power. |
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The first attack merely damaged the rail network for three days, and the second attack failed altogether. |
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The defendant was in control when she began drinking, and the state of mind in which she killed her daughter was merely induced by the alcohol. |
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More generally, some modern circuit courts may also refer to a court which merely holds trials for cases of multiple locations in some rotation. |
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Judges saw themselves as merely declaring the law which had always theoretically existed, and not as making the law. |
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Stimulation of scutellaris during ontogeny by high temperature merely reduces the markings concentricly. |
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It would be merely foolish to assert that it is of no interest whatever to know that The Disciples is a forgery. |
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Before its union with the State, its power in this direction, as in others, was merely over the spirits of men. |
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My companions ate merely to satisfy the corrodings of hunger. I fasted till after three the succeeding morning. |
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In many cases, the Lord Chancellor would merely be elevated to the office of Lord High Steward temporarily. |
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The British courts have held it is not enough for an affected person to merely be informed of a hearing. |
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This however, merely caused many sepoys to be convinced that the rumours were true and that their fears were justified. |
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Not that Warner's is merely a domesticated version of Euripides. It stars, after all, that least kitchen-sinky of actors. |
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I used to think that this militant atheism was merely a function of the Randianism out of which most modern libertarians emerged two decades ago. |
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But as a matter of pure logic, one cannot conclude that we ought to do something merely because something is the case. |
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The Court of Justice's reply is not merely an opinion, but takes the form of a judgment or a reasoned order. |
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However, the system really served to increase inefficiency, because if the norms were met, management would merely increase them. |
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Also, conventions often exist that the upper house ought not to obstruct the business of government for frivolous or merely partisan reasons. |
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Formally, the motion that follows the speech merely calls on parliament to thank the monarch or viceroy via an Address in Reply. |
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It did not require parliament to last for a full term, but merely set a maximum length on its life. |
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Anne showed no concern at the news of her father's flight, and instead merely asked for her usual game of cards. |
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The Lord High Steward merely presided at trials, and the whole House could vote. |
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At other times a Deputy was appointed merely to enhance an individual politician's standing within the government. |
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He was the first to understand that simple machines do not create energy, they merely transform it. |
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Such advances and increases in efficiency, they suggest, merely accelerate the drawing down of finite resources. |
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The discoloration is merely an indication of an injury, and in all probability does not of itself affect the properties of the wood. |
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Barrack Field at the Royal Artillery Barracks was a famous cricket ground in the 18th century but is now merely used for recreational sports. |
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The men were merely attacking what they saw as the reason for the decline in their livelihoods. |
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Whether they owned the original or merely possessed a Wedgwood copy mattered little to Wedgwood's customers. |
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Normally, the Law Lords were the members who opined on the law, the other members merely concurring with their opinions. |
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Furthermore, there has been some consideration of what happens when a company merely attempts to abuse its dominant position. |
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But Reitman, who also coscripted the film from a novel by Walter Kirn, isn't interested in merely satirizing the existence of guys like Bingham. |
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The judge in the parable granted the widow's suit merely because she lay upon him, and was troublesome to him. |
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This hut consisted merely of a bench with a small roof, but it provided shelter from the frequent rains and escape from the house. |
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This was an argument for using a uniform prior distribution for a binomial parameter and not merely a general postulate. |
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A rhetorical question is one used merely to make a point, with no response expected. |
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In this case, therefore, the linearoid system of invariant differential equations is merely the linearoid transform of a linear system. |
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The latter does not seem to have had a pool above the furnace, merely a tank into which the water was pumped. |
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Instead of merely banning Latin, the Act was framed so as to enforce English. |
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The roadside stand did a good business just selling products to people who merely wanted directions. |
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Smith had merely dug a shaft, salted the mine with a good grade ore, in order to lure Jeremiah into purchasing. |
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If you look carefully, a sand dollar is merely a sea urchin in flattened form. |
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De Veritate is concerned not merely with the truth of statements but with correctness in will, action, and essence as well. |
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What Ghaznavi had considered animal intuition or some sixth sense was merely the razor-edged faculties and savage wit of the barbarian. |
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Besides, the body paint would probably be visible on the sheets as dark smudgings, since the films were merely in black and white. |
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A disposition granted on a cessio bonorum is merely in farther security to the creditors, not in satisfaction or in solution of the debts. |
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I wasn't a participant in the preparations, merely a spectator. |
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You'll probably be able to get one merely for the price of hauling it to your place if it's superugly. And it needn't remain an eyesore. |
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You are not merely within territorial waters, but you have invaded a national port. |
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The theater is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, it is also the return of art to life. |
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Electricity seems destined to annex the whole field, not merely of optics, but probably also of thermotics. |
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The complaint alleges the lunch was merely to establish an alibi. |
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Vajrayana, a body of teachings attributed to Indian siddhas, may be viewed as a third branch or merely a part of Mahayana. |
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The terminus ad quem is already existing, and merely receives a new ubication. |
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If the situation created by the War has transformed also the English circulation into unconvertible paper money, this is merely a passing fact. |
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Further, in making him a slave, he does not merely unhumanize one individual, but UNIVERSAL MAN. He destroys the foundations. |
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The unmortared wall of bricks would be easy to dismantle, merely requiring backs strong enough to lift the bricks and enough time to do it. |
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A charge of 200 pounds of gunpowder, in bags merely laid at the foot of the stockade, untamped, was first exploded. |
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In early infancy activity is entirely purposeless and unwilled, merely the instinctive movement of every part of the body. |
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The antimetabole of the first line does not merely reflect but establishes the logic of prodigal love. |
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And, without any dramatic whoop-de-doo at the close of this song, he merely restates his simple, sentimental first phrase. |
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What do dogs want? They want each other. Human beings are merely a cynomorphic substitute, as we all know. |
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The calyx, too, instead of being woollyish, is merely fringed with rather stiff hairs. |
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Instead of driving down the street to meetings, soon Yahoos need merely stroll the walkways that crisscrossed a bright green lawn. |
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To do another man a diskindness merely because he has done me one, serves to no good purpose, and to many ill ones. |
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The court said there is nothing inherently wrong with an adhesion contract merely because it is in that category. |
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The third Guru writes in the Adi Granth, 'They are not truly wedded whose two bodies merely came together. |
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But Robson said Whitlow admitted he had fouled Lua Lua and Shearer was merely asking the official to speak with the Bolton player. |
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By merely pulling down some of the air potato vines, we saw how the woods began to open up. |
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True, there are some workplaces that are awful and irredeemable, and maybe those of us who like our jobs are merely lucky enough to avoid those. |
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So, have pity on the mansplainer. His is the merely the voice of a patriarchal world eclipsed by a new one... wait, did that sound mansplainy? |
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In an age when we needed a visionary, he is merely a careerist. |
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Here the use is not part of a predication but does not seem to be merely adverbially subordinate. |
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Let us note that this paper presents merely experimental results and any detailed human-related experiments are a matter of future work. |
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The police condemn them and argue that drivers should obey speed limits at all times, not merely when a device senses a radar trap. |
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Godolphin's recent CCA Oaks heroine Jilbab could never get into contention, merely plugging on for fourth. |
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Indeed, what makes an antique an antique is not merely how old it is, as if antiqueness were a property or quality of the object itself. |
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Instead of being merely humorous or deadly serious, Homer's gods are jocoserious. |
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It may merely suggest that Genyornis became extinct at a later date than previously determined. |
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But Osterman is not merely a documenter, preserving the lost art form of the radio drama. |
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He are merely a doggly pup who ain't got no soul to skare with Demon Rums, etc. |
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They are so deeply entrenched in both worlds that it is unclear whether they control fate, or whether they are merely its agents. |
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This was a sight check, to see if he looked like some dustout or merely sounded like one. |
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They are, in his view, ignorant men who compose and act in plays merely for financial reward. |
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Thirdly, Mill's position, by calling mathematics merely another species of inductive inference, misapprehends mathematics. |
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Boswell's emphasis on Johnson's later years shows him too often as merely an old man discoursing in a tavern to a circle of admirers. |
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In the part which merely concerns him, his independence is, of right, absolute. |
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A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. |
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Those who practised a sport professionally were considered to have an unfair advantage over those who practised it merely as a hobby. |
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Thus the poem merely implies that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England. |
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The double consonants in French orthography, however, are merely etymological. |
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Food doesn't cease to exist merely because somebody swallowed it, beanbrain. |
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For that clerk, in the eyes of the people who come to you for service, is not merely an employe. |
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I merely repeat, remember always your duty of enmity towards Man and all his ways. |
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When used to classify speech sounds, voiced and unvoiced are merely labels used to group phones and phonemes together for the purposes of classification. |
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Early buses were merely a bus body fitted to a truck chassis. |
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The engineers at AMC have wrought a minor miracle in modifying this archaic transmission so that it is merely inconvenient instead of being an outright disappointment. |
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Neither does a not-great website whose amateurishness merely reinforces the suspicion that shambling yoghurt-knitting is still a popular activity. |
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The sheriff was not the judge of the court, merely its president. |
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Free gas in the riser was therefore subjected to a slight but continuous decrease in compressibility which merely served to prolong the period of afterflow. |
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The Book is a more allusive work than the Tale, which leads to speculation on whether the digressions in both works might not merely be a case of a rambling narrator. |
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With what astoundment would ye, if ye were alive with your merely human perfections, listen to the creed of our, so called, rational religionists! |
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Is philosophy merely one bemooded Dasein in the person of the professor forming his or her speech so as to suit another bemooded Dasein, namely, that of the students? |
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Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men. |
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Connectedness is a requirement for higher education if our academic work is not to be merely the technological equivalent of counting angels on pinheads. |
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The United States cannot acquire jurisdiction tortiously or by disseisin of the state, or by occupancy with merely the tacit consent of the state. |
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Not merely do publishers opt for a local, regional or national market, but they vary in the extent that they editionalize to offer regional news coverage. |
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On the other hand he declares carefully that his views are relatively unimportant and that he merely behaves like any other eisteddfodwr in similar circumstances. |
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No one entered more fully than Shakespeare into the character of this species of poetry, which admits of no expletive imagery, no merely ornamental line. |
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The accident was an excuse merely to replace an old-fashioned regular with old-fashioned notions by an active, fire-eating young general who would ginger things up. |
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There must be knowledge of a danger, not merely possible, but probable. |
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In all hypernatremic patients who primarily have water losses without electrolyte losses, the urine sodium excretion concentration merely reflects sodium intake. |
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It is not clear if Bede meant that Augustine rebuilt the church or that Augustine merely reconsecrated a building that had been used for pagan worship. |
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Winston did not know why Withers had been disgraced. Perhaps it was for corruption or incompetence. Perhaps Big Brother was merely getting rid of a too-popular subordinate. |
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Some commentators have seen this change in mood as evidence of a more serene view of life on Shakespeare's part, but it may merely reflect the theatrical fashion of the day. |
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In practice, Presbyterianism meant that committees of lay elders had a substantial voice in church government, as opposed to merely being subjects to a ruling hierarchy. |
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The area's connections with Camelot and Camlann are merely speculative. |
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However, when the king was merely seeking advice, he often only summoned the nobility and the clergy, sometimes with and sometimes without the knights of the shires. |
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