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This is not only terribly offensive, but astonishingly idiotic, this sort of thing merely inflames old divisions. – Ben Jones	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This sort of thing merely inflames old divisions. – Ben Jones	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
We should not see it as something that will damage the old taxi industry, but merely to offer better services and compel them to modernize and innovate. – Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We should not see it as something that will damage the old taxi industry, but merely to offer better services and compel them to modernise and innovate. – Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Our intention was not to put white people on a pedestal, it was merely to fight fire with fire. – Edgar Antillon	Found on CNN 8 years ago
To meet the huge challenge of feeding a burgeoning global population, using fewer resources, as our climate becomes increasingly unstable, we will need to use all of the tools at our disposal, be they social, political, economic or technological, regulatory reform is no longer merely an option, it is a necessity. – Andrew Miller	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It is not merely the amount and location, but also the time frame — she has been very active in what essentially adds up to three weeks. – Veryan Khan	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We are not merely making commitments and announcements, we have been backing them up with concrete actions. – Narendra Modi	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
But China's case is a bit different, if you look at the last six years, firms have leveraged up quite a lot, previously bank loans were at quite high interest rates. If China can relax monetary policy further, firms could have a great incentive to borrow at a lower rate, and use them to pay off high-yield debt. Merely doing so will alleviate firms' financial burdens and also the risk of default. – Liu Ligang	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The rise of extreme religiosity that we are seeing in the Middle East, and even in Europe and the United States, is happening in Israel, too, and I don't see it as merely a counter-reaction to Arab hostility. – Tamar Hermann	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Softer output and employment numbers merely represent a cooling in the pace of expansion from unusually strong rates earlier in the year. – Chris Williamson	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We believe selling non-core assets would merely be a quick fix for Eskom when in fact the underlying problems are not being addressed, the government should be looking to sell off portions of Eskom ownership rather than other assets and trying to patch up holes. – Sean McCalgan	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Some watches are more branding than substance, watch out for brands with bloated prices thanks to merely adding precious metals and jewels to base watches and movements that aren't worth very much. – Ariel Adams	Found on CNN 9 years ago
It is merely regularizing the existing reality in a way that permits both countries to extend normal public services to the residents of these areas. – Shashi Tharoor	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. – Richard DeVos	added by anonymous 9 years ago
The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. – Thomas Wolfe	added by anonymous 9 years ago
My music is not modern, it is merely badly played. – Arnold Schoenberg	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. – David Lloyd George	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage. – Frank Moore Colby	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it. – Georges Bernanos	added by anonymous 9 years ago
We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. – Jean Rostand	added by anonymous 10 years ago
This means we must subject the machinetechnologyto control and cease despoiling the earth and filling people with goodies merely to make money. The search of the young today is more specific than the ancient search for the Holy Grail. The search of the youth today is for ways and means to make the machineand the vast bureaucracy of the corporation state and of government that runs that machinethe servant of man. That is the revolution that is coming. That revolutionnow that the people hold the residual powers of governmentneed not be a repetition of 1776. It could be a revolution in the nature of an explosive political regeneration. It depends on how wise the Establishment is. If, with its stockpile of arms, it resolves to suppress the dissenters, America will face, I fear, an awful ordeal. – William O. Douglas	added by anonymous 10 years ago
What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me. – Henry Miller	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. – Harry Emerson Fosdick	added by anonymous 10 years ago

This is not only terribly offensive, but astonishingly idiotic, this sort of thing merely inflames old divisions.

– Ben Jones

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This sort of thing merely inflames old divisions.

– Ben Jones

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We should not see it as something that will damage the old taxi industry, but merely to offer better services and compel them to modernize and innovate.

– Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We should not see it as something that will damage the old taxi industry, but merely to offer better services and compel them to modernise and innovate.

– Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our intention was not to put white people on a pedestal, it was merely to fight fire with fire.

– Edgar Antillon

Found on CNN
8 years ago

To meet the huge challenge of feeding a burgeoning global population, using fewer resources, as our climate becomes increasingly unstable, we will need to use all of the tools at our disposal, be they social, political, economic or technological, regulatory reform is no longer merely an option, it is a necessity.

– Andrew Miller

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It is not merely the amount and location, but also the time frame — she has been very active in what essentially adds up to three weeks.

– Veryan Khan

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We are not merely making commitments and announcements, we have been backing them up with concrete actions.

– Narendra Modi

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

But China's case is a bit different, if you look at the last six years, firms have leveraged up quite a lot, previously bank loans were at quite high interest rates. If China can relax monetary policy further, firms could have a great incentive to borrow at a lower rate, and use them to pay off high-yield debt. Merely doing so will alleviate firms' financial burdens and also the risk of default.

– Liu Ligang

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The rise of extreme religiosity that we are seeing in the Middle East, and even in Europe and the United States, is happening in Israel, too, and I don't see it as merely a counter-reaction to Arab hostility.

– Tamar Hermann

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Softer output and employment numbers merely represent a cooling in the pace of expansion from unusually strong rates earlier in the year.

– Chris Williamson

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We believe selling non-core assets would merely be a quick fix for Eskom when in fact the underlying problems are not being addressed, the government should be looking to sell off portions of Eskom ownership rather than other assets and trying to patch up holes.

– Sean McCalgan

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Some watches are more branding than substance, watch out for brands with bloated prices thanks to merely adding precious metals and jewels to base watches and movements that aren't worth very much.

– Ariel Adams

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It is merely regularizing the existing reality in a way that permits both countries to extend normal public services to the residents of these areas.

– Shashi Tharoor

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

– Richard DeVos