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Example sentences for: merely

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USAT 's headline announces the international "rebuke on [the] test ban vote" received by the U.S., while the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times --which off-lead the story--note merely that "Clinton Fumes at [the] GOP" ( LAT ) and "Fault[s] GOP Partisanship" ( WP ). The Post and LAT lead with the military's tightening grip on Islamabad, a story off-leaded by the NYT and stuffed by USAT .
So on Thursday, Lott declared that he did support the action, did not suspect any connection with the impeachment process, and had not meant to imply otherwise merely by uttering words whose plain meaning and universal interpretation was the exact opposite.
If he is right, then those who show it at all are merely genuflecting in the direction of the purists.
The term "basic" does not necessarily mean that other financial information not covered by the auditor's opinion is less important to users than that contained in the basic statements; it merely connotes the expected nature of the auditor's review of, and association with, the information.
Being asked to make a judgment about a surname merely on the basis of its modern spelling is rather like being asked to give the meaning of a word such as pain without being told whether the word is English or French and without knowing whether the word should really be spelled pane .