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.

`` Only a discontinuity can end it '', Professor Morrison writes.

Only when the available gas is nearly consumed or dispersed does the starburst activity come to an end.

Only 7 employees now remain employed at the company's original site and the outlet shop will close at the end of August 2009.

Luke's presence in Rome with the Apostle Paul near the end of Paul's life was attested by 2 Timothy 4: 11: " Only Luke is with me ".

Only 16 of 80 " contestants " ( teachers ) chose to end the game before delivering the highest voltage punishment.

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

Only after the end of the Viking Age did the separate kingdoms acquire distinct identities as nations, which went hand in hand with their Christianization.

Only two nuclear weapons have been used in the course of warfare, both by the United States near the end of World War II.

Only sharks that are willing to scavenge follow the chum trail and if they find no food at the end then the shark soon swims off and does not associate chum with a meal.

Only at the end of the 1950s did the tight censorial control begin to ease — some poets were allowed to publish again ( Hrubín, Oldřich Mikulášek, Jan Skácel ) and a new literary group formed around the magazine Květen, striving to break the hold of socialist realism ( Miroslav Holub, Karel Šiktanc, Jiří Šotola ).

Only since the end of World War I have women begun to wear their hair short and in fairly natural styles.

Only Logudoro survived to the end under local Sardinian rulers.

Only starting January 1, 1808, could laws become effective to end the slave trade.

Only an Edict of Toleration issued by Emperor Joseph II as late as 1781 put an end to religious repression.

Only at the end of the eighteenth century did jeans arrive in the United States.

Only near the southern end of this natural coral barricade do two open passages permit safe ship navigation from one side of the Indian Ocean to the other through the territorial waters of Maldives.

Only Bree and a few surrounding villages lasted to the end of the Third Age.

Only the period, however, may not end a quoted sentence when it does not also end the enclosing sentence, except for literal text:

Only in the future, at the ‘ end of days ’, will all the created beings of Ilúvatar fully understand not only the divinely provided concepts and themes they each personally embody, but how each relates to all the others and fits ( as per Ilúvatar ’ s intentions ) in the entire greater scheme of existence.

Only when he went down at the end did the general firing cease.

Only in Valinor was this fading delayed, which is one reason all Elves had no choice but to go to Valinor in the end.

Only one volume ( dealing with events up to the end of the Cultural Revolution ) of the biography written by Hu's former aides was eventually published, with the other two volumes held by the government and remaining unpublished.