It won't help to merely shift money from one foreign aid program for poor people to another.
The changes may merely shift the burden of public funds to day care.
Local officials say this plan would merely shift traffic problems elsewhere.
Merely shifting the date a few months later could be done more easily by passing a state law.
The regulators merely shift the equilibrium toward one state or another.
It merely shifts the question to what power source is used to produce the hydrogen.
Through the new regulation we want to increase safety for citizens and not merely shift the responsibility.
That does not contain medical costs, but merely shifts the burden.
Web took one tiny step forward as he pretended to be merely shifting his weight.
He merely shifted a lever, and got a better spark.