The Athenians dispatched ambassadors to Artaphernes to dissuade him from taking action, but Artaphernes merely instructed the Athenians to take Hippias back as tyrant.

Emperor Taizong did not order a counter-attack and merely instructed the troops to defend firmly.

For the changelings in "The Kids Are Alright", Kripke merely instructed Hayden to make the children's faces pale and have dark circles beneath their eyes.

It was from Pompey, and merely instructed him to present himself at Pompey's villa on the Campus Martius that evening.

There were often sharp divisions between orthodox kyais, who merely instructed in Islamic law, with those who taught mysticism and those who sought reformed Islam with modern scientific concepts.

The Use and Abuse of History (1878) By Friedrich Nietzsche Forward "Incidentally, I despise everything which merely instructs me without increasing or immediately enlivening my activity."

Cooking shows and fixit shows can no longer merely instruct - they must entertain.

In his view, unlike a blueprint that merely instructed a user how to do something, software actually directly caused infringing conduct to occur.

While the Socialist-backed resolution called for immediate establighment of this system, a minority report merely instructing the governing Executive Council of the AF of L to investigate the applicability of this electoral method and to report their findings to the 1912 convention was favored by others.

Mr. Clinton could have won a good deal of support by merely instructing his chief drug policy aide, Lee P. Brown, to say that although the Administration had not calculated precisely how much it planned to spend on accomplishing the new goals, there would be a substantial increase in spending on treatment and prevention.