If a bill makes substantial, and not merely incidental, provision for:

He wants the ring, and he would like me - you are merely incidental.

The Indian seems merely incidental, in other words; not integral.

Thus the working party is arguing that information skills are not merely incidental to the curriculum but central to it.

All this was merely incidental magic from the Good Magician's foot.

All the other events in Billy's life are merely incidental to his time as a soldier and a prisoner of war.

In the first half, such inconsistencies seem merely incidental.

That travel was merely incidental to a business which took place in each state.

The judge said he was not entirely convinced by the defendant's argument that the commercials have a merely incidental impact on students.

Were the old cores merely incidental to that vastly more important search?