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Only Wolsey's sudden death at Leicesteron his journey to the Tower of London saved him from the public humiliation and inevitable execution he would have suffered upon his arrival at the Tower.
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Only the sudden appearance of Soviet military vehicles, and then tanks, seemed to prevent a complete takeover.
After Lee's sudden death in 1981, the producers, instead of hiring a replacement, decided to leave M out of For Your Eyes Only out of respect for the actor and trade his lines with M's Chief of Staff Bill Tanner.
Just before his sudden departure from writing Bond novels at the start of 2003, Benson had indicated his intention to write more short pieces and publish a short story collection along the lines of Fleming's For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy and The Living Daylights.
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Sullivan was phoned the following morning to be told the news, and he broke it to Pearce's Only Fools and Horses co-stars David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst, who were both devastated by Pearce's sudden death.
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Only when that term is ended and he is a private citizen again can he be permitted the freedom and the courage to discount the dangers of his death.
Only the death of Stephen, the great hospodar of Moldavia, enabled Poland still to hold her own on the Danube River ; while the liberality of Pope Julius II, who issued no fewer than 29 bulls in favor of Poland and granted Alexander Peter's Pence and other financial help, enabled him to restrain somewhat the arrogance of the Teutonic Order.
Only six new games were released after the debut of the second system before its death, several of which were developed at Fairchild before they sold it off.
Only forty years after Michinaga's death, his Fujiwara heirs were not able to prevent the ascension of Emperor Go-Sanjō ( reigned 1068 – 1073 ), the first emperor since Emperor Uda whose mother was not a Fujiwara.
Only twenty-seven years old at his death, Moseley could in many scientists ' opinions have contributed a lot to the knowledge of atomic structure had he survived.
Only a few weeks before his death, the government of France awarded him its highest honor, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d ' Honneur.
Only the day, 8 July, is known thanks to the Regesta Historia Brandenburgensis, which records the death in " VIII Id Jul " of " Juditha marchionissa gemma Polonorum ".
Only when an incumbent president is absolutely absent ( either through resignation, impeachment or death ), the Congress of the Union constitutes itself acts as an electoral college to elect an interim president by absolute majority.
Only after Wegener's death did evidence lead to a gradual change of opinion and ultimate acceptance of his ideas.
Only later, after Picasso ’ s death, when the rest of the art world had moved on from abstract expressionism, did the critical community come to see that Picasso had already discovered neo-expressionism and was, as so often before, ahead of his time.
Only the humanity of Jesus Christ experienced death.
Only days later, on 28 April 1192, Conrad was stabbed to death by Hashshashin ( Assassins ) before he could be crowned.
Only shortly before his death was Rilke's illness diagnosed as leukemia.
Only 12 days later Achilles slew him, after the death of Patroclus.
Only four years after Qin Shi Huang's death, revolts and territorial uprisings overthrew the Qin Dynasty.
Only at Bayreuth could his last work be presented in the way envisaged by him-a tradition maintained by his wife, Cosima, long after his death.
" Leone abandoned this project in favor of A Place Only Mary Knows, though Donati wrote a treatment and the project remained in gestation for years after Leone's death.
Only in 1831 their correspondence resumed ; it continued in sporadic fashion until Johanna's death in 1838.
Only on September 30 was Lin's death confirmed in Beijing, which led to the cancellation of the National Day celebration events the following day.
Only a few weeks before Novello's death, Coward had written of him: " Theatre – good, bad and indifferent – is the love of his life.
Only after his death was it discovered that his claim that he was born in St. Davids, West Wales was false.
Only one man fell to his death, at night and under mysterious circumstances, at the anchoring place for his wire.
Only one year before Pavlov ’ s own death.
Only five years later, Canada had three successive kings in the space of one year, with the death of George V, the accession and abdication of Edward VIII, and his replacement by George VI.
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Only recently, and perhaps because a television debate can so effectively dramatize President Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have the abilities on which the capacity for making distinctions depend begun to be clearly discernible at the level of politics.
Only the strong look squarely at weakness.
Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.
Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.
Only a few more than 10,000 boats had been registered with the Division of Harbors and Rivers at the end of the 1960 boating season, but many had been taken out of the water early when the threat of a hurricane brought the season to an early close.
Only eight of the 50 houses were completed at the time of the editor's visit on June 8th ; ;
Only Co differentiated between the two groups at less than the 5% level ( Af ).
Only two principal storehouses were actually established -- one at Mobile, the other at New Orleans.
Only at this moment -- perhaps because it was before dawn and she was lying in Doaty's bed -- she found herself examining how others might regard her.
" Only four months later, Kurosawa's eldest brother also died, leaving Akira, at age 23, the only one of the Kurosawa brothers still living, together with his three surviving sisters.
Only a single England victory had come in a match in which the Ashes were still at stake, namely the First Test of the 1997 series.
Only 28 of the 49 parties to the agreements have the right to participate in decision-making at these meetings, though the other 21 are still allowed to attend.
Only slower trains stop at these, but Aachen-West has developed enormous importance due to the expanding RWTH Aachen university.
Only a few weeks after his accession the Ottoman Empire sustained a crushing defeat at the Battle of Slankamen from the Austrians under Margrave Louis William of Baden and was driven from Hungary.
Only the Jarawa and Sentinelese still maintain a steadfast independence and refuse most attempts at contact ; their numbers are uncertain but estimated to be in the low hundreds.
Only the first 6000 to arrive were admitted and paid, with the red rope now used to keep latecomers at bay.
Along with BOCA, Collegiate a cappella groups may submit their tracks to Voices Only, a two-disc series released at the beginning of each school year.
Only bromine and mercury are liquids at 0 degrees Celsius ( 32 degrees Fahrenheit ) and normal atmospheric pressure ; caesium and gallium are solids at that temperature, but melt at 28. 4 ° C ( 83. 2 ° F ) and 29. 8 ° C ( 85. 6 ° F ), respectively.
Only one family of pterosaurs, Azhdarchidae, was definitely present in the Maastrichtian, and it became extinct at the K – T boundary.
Only Eurylochus, suspecting treachery from the outset, escaped to warn Odysseus and the others who had stayed behind at the ships.
Only the empty staves display the intention to add musical notation to the codex at a later date.
( Only two stadiums owned by U. S. colleges or universities — Papa John's Cardinal Stadium at the University of Louisville and FAU Stadium at Florida Atlantic University — consist entirely of chairback seating.
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