Only after the ascendancy of Mikhail Gorbachev to Soviet leadership in 1985 did mass media in Finland gradually begin to criticize the Soviet Union more.

Only those who make effort, really attain it, but nonetheless, each soul is capable on its own to do so by gradually reducing its karma.

Only in the human form can the soul experience its own divinity by entering into involution, through which it gradually eliminates all impressions that cause the appearance of separateness from God.

Only gradually did Zug become sovereign and federal.

Only unhealthy stallions have their harems taken over, and even then the new stallion gradually takes over pushing the old one out without a fight.

Only gradually does he admit that he has faked an orgasm .).

Only in the second half of the 18th century, the town began to gradually recover.

Only in Hungary were the conditions for convertibility gradually being introduced by reforms intended to link domestic prices more directly to world prices.

Only gradually did a full complement of more modern weapons, equipment, and transport begin reaching the division in 1940.

Only gradually it became a lighter garment to be worn underneath the kontusz, while the belt became a colourful affair worn over the kontusz.

* " Only when the rust is removed from steel gradually, An arrow can be formed from decent steel.

Only gradually did Wilmot come to believe that the South was dominating the national government to the detriment of the rest of the nation.

Only lightly armed, however, they were unable to prevent the Germans from outflanking them and gradually they were forced to pull back before, at 2200 hours, their transport arrived and they were able to withdraw just as they were faced with encirclement.

Only moderately successful on its initial broadcast and despite an initially mixed reception, the show has gradually begun to develop something of a cult following, due to having begat the careers of a number of now prominent performers, directors and writers such as Andrew O ' Keefe who started his television career on the show & went on to host Deal or No Deal, Dragons ' Den, The Rich List and Weekend Sunrise.

Only a few clerks stayed on and the uninhabited and disused parts of the castle gradually deteriorated.

Only gradually did Cymru ( the land ) and Cymry ( the people ) come to supplant Brython.

Only when St. Ephrem composed hymns in the same pentasyllabic metre and had them sung to the same tunes as the psalms of Bardaisan, did the latter gradually lose favour.

Only gradually does Harry Kemble accept it when his wife informs him that she has made up her mind to stay for good now.

Only infrequently did the situation color his thinking.

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 Palestine, and I will never live to see Palestine because I did not believe.

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 then, when his glance focused on the divan and saw that it was empty, did he remember his earlier problem.

Only then did he decide he didn't want one.

Only an occasional tip turned out to be a phony, and, like the police, Casey had made a point of running down all such suggestions and he did not hesitate this time.

Only the memory of previous hurt, bewilderment and perplexity made him sure that if he did not ask B'dikkat when he, Mercer, was happy, the answer would no longer be available when he needed it.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

Only during the 1970s and 1980s did television chefs such as James Beard and Jeff Smith shift the focus towards home-grown cooking styles, particularly those of the different ethnic groups within the nation.

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 rarely did they describe their work as astronomical, and then only as a secondary category.

Only later when Cadogan and Churchill went to take charge did the town ’ s defences begin to fail.

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 one was ever built because Mrs. Beech did not like the aircraft.

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 after the 1990s did the ceremony resume.

Only after independence from Colombia in 1903 did some begin to regard Panama as a North or Central American entity.

Only twice in his 22-year career did Young finish lower than 5th in the category.

Only a few, trusted people are aware of it, such as Batman and other members of the Justice League, Superman's cousin Supergirl, and Clark's childhood friend Lana Lang ( In pre-Crisis stories, Lana did not know but their friend Pete Ross did, unbeknownst to anyone — including Clark ).

Only at the turn of the century did Christmas trees appear inside churches, this time in a new brightly lit form.

Only the former International Race of Champions actually retired the No. 3, which they did in a rule change effective in 2004.

Only in the 1960s did Nissan begin to brand some automobile models as Nissans, and these were limited to their high-end models, for example the Cedric luxury-type sedan.

Only in the 1980s did it begin to develop a modest domestic arms industry as the Directorate of Army Industries manufactured rifle ammunition, uniforms, boots, and other consumable items.