| Courts are not supposed to decide questions which are merely moot, theoretical, abstract or hypothetical. |
| Inspectors would not aim to reward excellence or to measure quality, merely to identify incompetence or fraud. |
| I merely thought that Raczysnki was warming the crowd up for the inevitable madness to come. |
| The difference between God and man must be qualitative, not merely quantitative. |
| The physician merely waves an electronic wand in front of the patient's chest. |
| Nor is it merely that their absorption into domesticity makes functional sense in a commercial and industrial society. |
