Feminists often argue that marriage merely reproduces and reinforces the inequality between the sexes prevalent in wider society.

By selecting and arranging the details, Flaubert hoped to capture the essence of the life he described instead of merely reproducing it.

However, "Shakespeare is here not merely reproducing the proverb, but playing with it, for he has here inverted it.

The examiner noted that some girls merely reproduced the notes in the book or those given by the teacher.

Clerke's position as an original theologian is also questioned; it has been thought he merely reproduced Daniel Zwicker's arguments.

I could merely reproduce the eyewitness narrative, and annotate it for the reader.

The audience sat on their hands, and one of the main reasons was that Mr. Jackson was merely reproducing the sound of his records.

It is therefore not sufficient to merely reproduce the legislation in force in other countries.

In reality the report merely reproduces the Commission's current attitude to the demands on the central and eastern European countries.

They are merely reproducing the same wistfulness and dreamlike melodies of their first album.