Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

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 a very few of the more advanced ones, such as India and Pakistan, have developed systematic techniques of programing.

Only in Europe have our lines remained firm -- and there only on the surface.

Only in one instance have we moved purposively and effectively to dislodge existing Communist power: in Guatemala.

Only too often, however, you have the feeling that you are sitting in a room with some of the instruments lined up on one wall to your left and others facing them on the wall to your right.

Only in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.

Only the Asteraceae have composite flower heads ; the other families do not, but share other characteristics such as storage of inulin that define the eleven families as more closely related to each other than to other plant families or orders such as the Rosids.

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 recently the ends of some highways that came rather close to one another from the east and the west have been connected.

Only with Aram Damascus is he believed to have had strained relations.

Only fragments of any of the plays have survived-about 340 in all, totaling about 1, 000 lines.

Only seven of his estimated seventy to ninety plays have survived into modern times, and there is a longstanding debate about his authorship of one of these plays, Prometheus Bound.

Only when the side-effects have become too severe and / or a patient has been symptom-free for a long period of time is discontinuation carefully attempted.

Only open curves that have some infinite branch, can have an asymptote.

Only when all numbers have been added is the result held in the accumulator written to main memory or to another, non-accumulator, CPU register.

Only those Benedictine monks who have been ordained as a deacon or priest are also members of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.

Only Joel Schumacher might have had an opposing view.

Only on the route between Kaga-Bandoro and Ouandago, some 2, 000 houses have been burnt, leaving an estimated 10, 000 persons homeless.

Only a few monarchies ( most notably Japan and Sweden ) have amended their constitutions so that the monarch is no longer even the nominal chief executive.

Only four descents have ever been achieved.

Only 5 drivers have joined this exclusive club since-Rusty Wallace, Alan Kulwicki, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, and Matt Kenseth.

Only the states of Delaware, West Virginia, Vermont, Maine, North Dakota, and Wyoming do not have a single city with a population over 100, 000 as of the 2007 census estimates.

Only one PDP-3 appears to have been built, in 1960, by the CIA's Scientific Engineering Institute ( SEI ) in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Only by means of an intensive preoccupation with the detailed considerations following from any decision can he ensure attention to the practical details to be dealt with if the implications of immorality in the major decision are effectively to be checked.

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 four towns indicated that they made any more than a normal effort to list property of this kind.

Only the independent art schools, that is, those not connected with any university or college, receive severe and separate investigation before accreditation by the various regional organizations.

Only a dozen or so schools send as many as six students, and there are seldom more than fifteen men in any single delegation.

Only the dive itself had any meaning.

Only ordained priests can administer it, and " any priest may carry the holy oil with him, so that in a case of necessity he can administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick.

Only a proper, artist-grade acrylic gesso should be used to prime canvas in preparation for painting with acrylic ( however acrylic paint can be applied to raw canvas if so desired without any negative effect or chemical reaction as would be the case with oils ).

Only 15 citations of Jensen's paper were in any way supportive of his theories, and 7 of these 15 were only in relation to minor points.

Only the ninth district ( Virgin Gorda and Anegada ) does not include any part of Tortola.

Only from Spain did Louis XIV receive any good news where Das Minas and Galway had been forced to retreat from Madrid towards Valencia, allowing Philip V to re-enter his capital on 4 October.

Only a fraction of the population at either time spoke Corsican with any fluency.

Only consumers are protected as per this act and any person, entity or organization purchasing a commodity for commercial reasons are exempted from any benefits of this act.

Only the acquittal in the Supreme Court is the final acquittal which prevents any further retrial.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

Only in the 15th century did production of painted icons begin to approach Eastern levels, and in this century the use of icons in the West was enormously increased by the introduction of prints on paper, mostly woodcuts which were produced in vast numbers ( although hardly any survive ).

Only Supreme Court decisions have any direct effect on later interpretation of the law.

Only eleven states allow juries in any aspect of divorce litigation ( Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin ).

Only the center, the offensive player who snaps the ball, is allowed to have any part of his body in the neutral zone.

As the Nazi party became the largest party in the Reichstag Horkheimer's 1932 observation proved chillingly prophetic: " Only one thing is certain ," he wrote, " the irrationality of society has reached a point where only the gloomiest predications have any plausibility.

Only one of the team is racing at any time and the replacement rider has to be touched before he can take over.

Only an upheaval, a thrashing about in the sticky mass, showed where any life was ... Horses died like so many flies on sticky fly-paper.

Only three teams ( Juventus, Ajax and Bayern Munich ) have won each of the three main competitions ( European Cup / UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup Winner's Cup and UEFA Cup / Europa League ), a feat that is no longer possible for any team that did not win the Cup Winners ' Cup.