To erase the endowment would merely accelerate the speed of that descent.

The coming of Blair merely accelerated the fixation with opting out.

The proposed air plan merely accelerates Los Angeles into a cleaner future.

But he is not merely accelerating the processes of nature.

A further upward move in interest rates would merely accelerate a trend of the last month.

Our life here be not ill, merely accelerated.

The meltdown merely accelerated Europe's rendezvous with demographic and mathematical destiny.

Confusion and concern over the fee on deposits merely accelerated that trend, they added.

Most historians agree that the war merely accelerated the dissolution of Britain's empire.

Economic deprivation, by this argument, merely accelerates terrorist recruitment.