"These days at the agency, bin Laden and Al Qaeda appear to be treated merely as first among equals."

It is merely treated as an additional data transfer.

Tenants would suffer as rental buildings were treated merely as cash cows, milked and allowed to decline.

But a person must never be treated merely as a means to another's end, no matter how valid.

Several students feel that they are merely treated as mark scoring machines and not as human beings.

Kings are now merely treated like any other chessman.

"I do not wish to be treated in the same manner as other diplomats merely by reason of great danger from the ravages of war", he announced.

Something is desperately wrong when people are treated like criminals merely for attempting to show sympathy and solidarity with fellow countrymen.

Surely they cannot be treated merely as objects of decision-making.

He had been treated merely as a scapegrace debtor who had come to ask favours from an old friend.