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 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 George Santayana seemed to understand and appreciate the film when he wrote: `` Miss Poitrine has perpetrated the most eloquent argument for the Protestant faith yet unleashed by Hollywood ''.

Only within the framework of a mature relationship characterized by honest appraisals of performance can we provide telling assistance.

Only when a decision is rendered by the District Court of Appeal ( or, of course, the Supreme Court ) is a binding precedent established.

Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil, and transformed by this translation, did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat, interlocking silhouettes whose legibility and placement created allusions to, if not the illusion of, unmistakable three-dimensional identities.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

Only by resorting to molding techniques can the cushion manufacturer hope to compete satisfactorily in the established cushion market.

Only the vain and incurably sentimental among us will lose sleep simply because foreign peoples are not as impressed by our strength as they ought to be.

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.

He stated that he acquired many of his writing techniques from three books, " Narrative Technique " by Thomas Uzzell, and " The Only Two Ways to Write a Story " plus " Twenty Problems of the Short-Story Writer ", both by John Gallishaw.

Only about 2 % of the continent is not covered by ice.

Only red abalone may be taken ; black, white, pink, and flat abalone are protected by law.

Only after the translation into Latin and the addition of commentary by van Schooten in 1649 ( and further work thereafter ) did Descarte's masterpiece receive due recognition.

Only later was it given a different meaning, a process in which Augustine ( Bp of Hippo Regis, 395-430 ) played a part by emphasising the idea of " the link from consecrator to consecrated whereby the grace of order was handed on.

Mira Sorvino is an alumna of the Veritones of Harvard College where she had the solo on Only You by Yaz.

*# The division of mankind threatens it with destruction ... Only universal cooperation under conditions of intellectual freedom and the lofty moral ideals of socialism and labor, accompanied by the elimination of dogmatism and pressure of the concealed interests of ruling classes, will preserve civilization ...

Only a few weeks after signing the agreement, Shuja was deposed by his predecessor, Mahmud.

Only ten of the network's main roads are even partially paved, and the paved roads are plagued by dangerous potholes, missing signage, missing barriers and guardrails near roadside hazards, and no pavement markings to separate traffic moving in opposite directions.

Only walks issued by the catcher signaling as described above are recorded as intentional walks ( see below ); walks issued without the catcher signaling – even if the pitches are intentionally thrown outside of the strike zone – are not recorded as intentional.

Also in the 2004 TV poll to find " Britain's Best Sitcom ", Blackadder was voted the second-best British sitcom of all time, topped by Only Fools and Horses.

Only in the 18th century did a steady economic and demographic growth begin, an effect of the reforms by Spain's Bourbon dynasty and a more stable situation along the frontier.

Only if the leading coalition ticket outpolls the second-place coalition by a margin of more than 2-to-1 does the winning coalition gain both seats.

Only about 4 % of the total mass of the universe is made of atoms or ions, and thus represented by chemical elements.

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

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 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 at the end of the 19th century did one internationally very important painter, Vincent Van Gogh and some other internationally well-acclaimed artists appear, like the realists Jozef Israëls, Anton Mauve and the more impressionist George Hendrik Breitner living in the Netherlands, and the romanticist Lawrence Alma-Tadema, living in England.

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.