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Mrs Alison-Madueke was never arrested or detained and her passport was never seized. She was merely invited (by British police), and she honoured it promptly, she has breast cancer and it was not detected early. It was discovered nine months ago. – Oscar Onwudiwe	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Unfortunately, it appears ‘deconfliction’ is merely an Orwellian euphemism for this administration’s acceptance of Russia’s expanded role in Syria, and as a consequence, for Assad’s continued brutalization of the Syrian people. – John McCain	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Merely constructing a portfolio in relation to a specific index is, in our mind, the wrong approach, there's no point in holding shares in a company you don't like just because it's in an index. – Matthew Vaight	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I merely look at this as a business decision: If the math doesn't add up, it doesn't add up, we could keep our pride and die hungry, or we eat well and be less proud. I chose to eat well. – Chief Executive John Chen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
July's rise in industrial production merely offset the declines in the previous two months, so is not the beginning of a stronger upward trend in the sector, the survey evidence points to fairly sluggish growth over the rest of the year. – Jack Allen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
At some point people do question the kind of life they are leading and wonder whether it is actually the life they want to live. Do they merely experience a series of ‘phony’ moments and a succession of fake sequences, or are they actually building up a authentic life story that gives them the enrichment they have been looking forward to. ( "Quest for the real moment" ) – Erik Pevernagie	added by anonymous 8 years ago
Merely owning a firearm or having a CPL does not automatically make you a gun rights advocate. In fact, you don't need either. – Rick Ector	added by anonymous 8 years ago
The figures teased out of their report on the fall in domestic and even long-haul connectivity show that as a nation, by expanding Heathrow, we would merely be investing in decline, their report very clearly shows that a third runway will fail both London and the UK on every level. – Boris Johnson	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They say the dog is man's best friend. I think it's fair. Merely because the man don´t get such loyalty to their neighbors as their dogs are with them. – L.F. Magister	added by L.F. Magister 8 years ago
While Donald Trump thinks that running for president is merely his own personal reality TV show, the reality is that women need access to safe, affordable reproductive health care. – Christian Miron	Found on CNN 8 years ago
That is a presumptive field test and it is not conclusive, and what those results tell us is merely the presence of that chemical. It doesn't tell us anything more than that. – Kevin Killea	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It is very important to understand here that that is a presumptive field test and it is not conclusive, and what those results tell us is merely the presence of that chemical. – Kevin Killea	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For Washington, any scenario with Rajapaksa back in power - even merely as an MP - is undesirable. – Michael Kugelman	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Policy will likely transition from being aggressively stimulative toward merely stimulative. – Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
In our time the hot abjuration to keep politics out of the pulpit is merely the way the 19th Century offers the thirty pieces of silver. – George William Curtis	added by anonymous 8 years ago
I think the right thing to do is merely not to go ahead. with this deal. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
A growth which is merely material will always run the. risk of creating new divisions, of the wealth of some being built on the poverty of others. – Bolivia Pope Francis	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Islamic State executions are not merely retribution by the state for behavior seen as illegal, the Islamic State uses executions to intimidate and dominate the local population, for diplomatic communiqus to world leaders, for recruitment purposes and to demonstrate the organization is in complete control. – Veryan Khan	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The board of immigration disagreed with the immigration judge and held that the Taliban is a de facto government in Afghanistan and that they exert power over large portions of the country, the danger that my client faces is not merely because he is a military officer but because he has an imputed position of being pro-Western because he attended training in the United States. – Matthew Borowski	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We must face hard truths -- if the current rate of new HIV infections continues, merely sustaining the major efforts we already have in place will not be enough to stop deaths from AIDS increasing within five years in many countries. – Peter Piot	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This was not merely a mass shooting, not merely a matter of gun violence, this was a racial hate crime and must be confronted as such. – Cornell William Brooks	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Not only was [Blumenthal] providing unvetted, uncorroborated, unsubstantiated intelligence to our top diplomat, he was just simply forwarding on intelligence that somebody by the name of Tyler Drumheller was sending him, he didn’t know if the sources were legitimate, he didn’t know whether or not the information had been corroborated. He was merely a conduit between somebody who may have had a financial interest in Libya and our nation’s top diplomat. – Trey Gowdy	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He didn’t know if the sources were legitimate, he didn’t know whether or not the information had been corroborated. He was merely a conduit between somebody who may have had a financial interest in Libya and our nation’s top diplomat. – Trey Gowdy	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The court of appeals merely held that the district court did not err when it held that Texas had standing to sue, the true test will be on the merits of the case. That could be a few years down the road, after a trial. – Stephen Yale-Loehr	Found on CNN 8 years ago

Mrs Alison-Madueke was never arrested or detained and her passport was never seized. She was merely invited (by British police), and she honoured it promptly, she has breast cancer and it was not detected early. It was discovered nine months ago.

– Oscar Onwudiwe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Unfortunately, it appears ‘deconfliction’ is merely an Orwellian euphemism for this administration’s acceptance of Russia’s expanded role in Syria, and as a consequence, for Assad’s continued brutalization of the Syrian people.

– John McCain

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Merely constructing a portfolio in relation to a specific index is, in our mind, the wrong approach, there's no point in holding shares in a company you don't like just because it's in an index.

– Matthew Vaight

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I merely look at this as a business decision: If the math doesn't add up, it doesn't add up, we could keep our pride and die hungry, or we eat well and be less proud. I chose to eat well.

– Chief Executive John Chen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

July's rise in industrial production merely offset the declines in the previous two months, so is not the beginning of a stronger upward trend in the sector, the survey evidence points to fairly sluggish growth over the rest of the year.

– Jack Allen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At some point people do question the kind of life they are leading and wonder whether it is actually the life they want to live. Do they merely experience a series of ‘phony’ moments and a succession of fake sequences, or are they actually building up a authentic life story that gives them the enrichment they have been looking forward to. ( "Quest for the real moment" )

– Erik Pevernagie

added by anonymous
8 years ago

Merely owning a firearm or having a CPL does not automatically make you a gun rights advocate. In fact, you don't need either.

– Rick Ector

added by anonymous
8 years ago

The figures teased out of their report on the fall in domestic and even long-haul connectivity show that as a nation, by expanding Heathrow, we would merely be investing in decline, their report very clearly shows that a third runway will fail both London and the UK on every level.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They say the dog is man's best friend. I think it's fair. Merely because the man don´t get such loyalty to their neighbors as their dogs are with them.

– L.F. Magister

added by L.F. Magister
8 years ago

While Donald Trump thinks that running for president is merely his own personal reality TV show, the reality is that women need access to safe, affordable reproductive health care.

– Christian Miron

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That is a presumptive field test and it is not conclusive, and what those results tell us is merely the presence of that chemical. It doesn't tell us anything more than that.

– Kevin Killea

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is very important to understand here that that is a presumptive field test and it is not conclusive, and what those results tell us is merely the presence of that chemical.

– Kevin Killea

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For Washington, any scenario with Rajapaksa back in power - even merely as an MP - is undesirable.

– Michael Kugelman

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Policy will likely transition from being aggressively stimulative toward merely stimulative.

– Atlanta Fed President Dennis Lockhart

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

In our time the hot abjuration to keep politics out of the pulpit is merely the way the 19th Century offers the thirty pieces of silver.

– George William Curtis

added by anonymous
8 years ago

I think the right thing to do is merely not to go ahead. with this deal.

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

A growth which is merely material will always run the. risk of creating new divisions, of the wealth of some being built on the poverty of others.

– Bolivia Pope Francis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Islamic State executions are not merely retribution by the state for behavior seen as illegal, the Islamic State uses executions to intimidate and dominate the local population, for diplomatic communiqus to world leaders, for recruitment purposes and to demonstrate the organization is in complete control.

– Veryan Khan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The board of immigration disagreed with the immigration judge and held that the Taliban is a de facto government in Afghanistan and that they exert power over large portions of the country, the danger that my client faces is not merely because he is a military officer but because he has an imputed position of being pro-Western because he attended training in the United States.

– Matthew Borowski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We must face hard truths -- if the current rate of new HIV infections continues, merely sustaining the major efforts we already have in place will not be enough to stop deaths from AIDS increasing within five years in many countries.

– Peter Piot

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This was not merely a mass shooting, not merely a matter of gun violence, this was a racial hate crime and must be confronted as such.

– Cornell William Brooks

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Not only was [Blumenthal] providing unvetted, uncorroborated, unsubstantiated intelligence to our top diplomat, he was just simply forwarding on intelligence that somebody by the name of Tyler Drumheller was sending him, he didn’t know if the sources were legitimate, he didn’t know whether or not the information had been corroborated. He was merely a conduit between somebody who may have had a financial interest in Libya and our nation’s top diplomat.

– Trey Gowdy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He didn’t know if the sources were legitimate, he didn’t know whether or not the information had been corroborated. He was merely a conduit between somebody who may have had a financial interest in Libya and our nation’s top diplomat.

– Trey Gowdy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The court of appeals merely held that the district court did not err when it held that Texas had standing to sue, the true test will be on the merits of the case. That could be a few years down the road, after a trial.

– Stephen Yale-Loehr

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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