Q: Since the military seems to be the big obstacle here, why not simply cut a deal with them?

To restore the nation's financial health, we must do more than simply cut spending.

They simply cut him and his nearly $1.5 million salary for 1996.

But in considering what to do now, we cannot simply cut and run.

It's not a long shot anymore to simply cut someone off.

There had been a time when he would have simply cut his losses and moved on.

Then they simply cut through the woods and climbed the ridge.

If a Club was used, they simply cut through the steering wheel.

The question, he thought,is whether I try to fighthim or simply cut and run?

Suits are simply cut to go to the office, for working women.