It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

The fire had gone down, and the man was only a shadow against the trees.

There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.

It was the only thing about her that was the least bit hard to remember.

under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

The river was only a few blocks away but an unbroken line of piers prevented me from seeing it.

Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

The only reason we brought you was to get Miller out.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

He was only vaguely aware of the sluicing rain.

He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.

There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.

The establishment of a Court to protect individuals from human rights violations is an innovative feature for an international convention on human rights, as it gives the individual an active role on the international arena ( traditionally, only states are considered actors in international law ).

Gygax later looked for innovative ways to generate random numbers, and he used not only common, six-sided dice, but dice of all five platonic solid shapes, which he discovered in a school supply catalog.

Although only 17 years old he was innovative in improving the methods of copying tomb decoration.

Hilbert produced an innovative proof by contradiction using mathematical induction ; his method does not give an algorithm to produce the finitely many basis polynomials for a given ideal: it only shows that they must exist.

It was innovative for the time, in being both the first ever treaty for a truly international court ( as opposed to a mere arbitral tribunal ), and in providing individuals with access to the court, going against the prevailing doctrines of international law at the time, according to which only states had rights and duties under international law.

The innovative uniforms only increased after the team's move to Oakland, which also came at the time of the introduction of polyester pullover uniforms.

The innovative look not only unified their entire product line, but set Apple apart in the marketplace.

They not only deny Ryan any credit for an innovative Middle East peace plan, but also panic when terrorists detonate a nuclear bomb in Denver during the Super Bowl and nearly plunge the world into a Soviet-American nuclear war.

The aim of the APCJ peer review process is to be rigorous and free of bias, ensuring that only high-quality, innovative work is published.

An innovative, even maverick, leader, he not only kept the school from going under but also turned it into a first-class research institution.

With rigorous external reviews ensuring that only the most innovative research secures funding, the IRP is responsible for many scientific accomplishments, including the discovery of fluoride to prevent tooth decay, the use of lithium to manage bipolar disorder, and the creation of vaccines against hepatitis, Haemophilus influenzae ( HIB ), and human papillomavirus.

Outside of works completed with his brother Hubert van Eyck and those ascribed to Hand G-believed to be Jan-of the Turin-Milan Hours illuminated manuscript, only about 23 surviving works are attributed to van Eyck, although all are of an exceptionally innovative and technical quality.

Although it was innovative, the Star was an expensive () system that was purchased by only a few businesses and institutions.

Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved products and services.

According to Kramer, he and Rose intentionally structured the film to debunk ethnic stereotypes ; the young doctor, a typical role for the young Sidney Poitier, was purposely created idealistically perfect, so that the only possible objection to his marrying Joanna would be his race, or the fact she had only known him for ten days: the character has thus graduated from a top school, begun innovative medical initiatives in Africa, refused to have premarital sex with his fiancée despite her willingness, and leaves money in an open container on his future father-in-law's desk in payment for a long distance phone call he has made.

Other notable later examples of the non-representational style include Bill Konersman's innovative 1987 video for Prince's " Sign o ' the Times " – influenced by Dylan's " Subterranean Homesick Blues " clip, it featured only the text of the song's lyrics — the video for George Michael's " Freedom 90 " ( 1990 ), in which Michael himself refused to appear, forcing director David Fincher to substitute top fashion models in his place.

Built in 1848, his innovative design required only three piers, where five would ordinarily have been required ; this allowed ice floes and timber rafts to pass under with less damage to the bridge.

Grassmann felt somewhat aggrieved that he was writing innovative mathematics, but taught only in secondary schools.

An innovative language laboratory encourages foreign language studies, including French, German, Spanish, Russian and Latin and they are one of the only towns in the country that still offers Classical Greek.

The greenbelt towns not only provided work and affordable housing, but also served as a laboratory for experiments in innovative urban planning.

Lynch introduced innovative legislation, such as raising the school leaving age ; reducing school class sizes ; removing a ban on married women working as teachers and allowing the Jewish skull cap to be worn but only from the age of 12.

In the haste to abandon the shipyard, the Merrimack had only been destroyed above the waterline, and an innovative armored superstructure was built upon the remaining portion.

Hans Monderman, the innovative Dutch traffic engineer, and pioneer of shared space schemes, was sceptical of their role, and is quoted as having said of them: " We only want traffic lights where they are useful and I haven't found anywhere where they are useful yet.