"merely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Often it was enough to merely substitute one name for another, but any detailed report of events demanded care and imagination.
- Other critics have denounced methadone treatment as merely substituting one addictive drug for another.
- Domestic oil producers could not shift the tax forward as a higher oil selling price because the purchaser would merely substitute imported or tax-exempt crude.
- When donors discover that their contributions merely substitute for withdrawn public funds, they stop giving.
- In many ways, Carter's suggestions are more radical than unionizing and paying college athletes, which would merely substitute the pro for the amateur model.
- Or is Captain Remy merely substituting for a ghost?
- Rather than removing carcinogens, Mr. Ierardi's lawyers say, the miracle filter merely substituted one poison for another.
- "They merely substituted the number thirteen on the wall of the elevator shaft and the indicator dial for the fourteen which is really there."
- Mr. Dunkel has argued that such high tariffs will merely substitute one form of protection for another.
- Merely substituting donations for access to lending facilities would be ineffective.
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