But in fact they were merely replacing one reality with another.

They were merely replacing a smaller flag that had been raised earlier by a different group of men.

In truth, we would be merely replacing their codes of law with our own.

But some critics say he is merely replacing it with his own cronies.

And billions more of the Federal grants have merely replaced state spending, bringing no new benefits or services to the poor.

Nowadays the station is replaced merely by a halt, which no longer has regular train traffic.

They say he merely replaced the old Camden Democratic machine with one of his own.

A change of emphasis merely replaces one group of men by another, as does revolution.

Merely replacing the central processing unit will not let the user take advantage of the most current advances in technology.

Even if businesses merely replaced existing stocks, instead of letting them fall further, factory production would get a big lift.