That he would do something so very thoughtful merely strengthened her conviction in the right of loving him.

This merely strengthens my belief that the notion of fairplay has totally disappeared.

Better to retain the stony bodies, merely strengthen them, using metallo-vegetable fibers.

To challenge it, yes- for each challenge met merely strengthens its truth.

Two of the old lady's progeny died young, which merely strengthened her conviction that in a cruel world only the hardened survive.

Mr. Kissinger argued that that merely strengthened the case for taking military action against Iraq early next year.

In China, the state's attempt to silence dissident artist Ai Weiwei merely strengthened his voice.

Weakness and equivocation merely strengthen those who seek to undermine democracy.

The second is that we cannot accept sectoral policy areas, which have the opposite effect of merely strengthening the centre.

Many of those bonds were already in place, and life at PayPal merely strengthened them.