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 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 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 if the corpse had been properly embalmed and entombed in a mastaba, could the dead live again in the Fields of Yalu and accompany the Sun on its daily ride.

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 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.

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 an eligible pass receiver may legally catch a forward pass, and only an eligible receiver may advance beyond the neutral zone if a forward pass which crosses the neutral zone is thrown.

Only in the upward development of the soul do human beings find happiness in this life and the next, for if the soul is unhappy, a person will be miserable regardless of how materially wealthy he or she may be.

Only lions, leopards, tigers and jaguars are truly able to roar, although the loudest mews of snow leopards have a similar, if less structured, sound.

Only if many elements are likely to be compared will it be worthwhile considering methods that make fewer comparisons but impose other requirements.

Only if the data is written to would it have to be physically copied, a process known as copy-on-write.

Certainly, Erdős behaved as if nothing else in the world mattered, including money or love, as emphasized in his biography The Man Who Loved Only Numbers.

Only then, and only if the divorce from the second husband is not intended as a means to re-marry her first husband, may the first husband and the woman re-marry.

However, he also advances a " Remedial Rights Only Theory " where a group has " a general right to secede if and only if it has suffered certain injustices, for which secession is the appropriate remedy of last resort.

Only two fighters are involved in each duel and they are usually of the same level or status if they belong to any sect.

Only if the connection to the main controller is unavailable, the readers use their internal database to make access decisions and record events.

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 if the organism becomes intelligent enough to understand its own interests, as distinct from those of its genes, can there be true conflict.

Only a patient will truly know if the symptoms are something mild or serious.

When asked in 2000 if he would ever like to return to acting, Howard replied, " Only if I can act with Cindy Williams again ", referring to the actress who played opposite him in American Graffiti.

Only if all of these conditions are met will a digital signature actually be any evidence of who sent the message, and therefore of their assent to its contents.

Only if such a vote fails may the President dissolve the Bundestag.

Only rarely is attention given to accurate progress reports and evaluation.

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.

Only Lille, Marseille and Saint-Étienne have never given up their tram systems.

Only one of the panels is active at a given time.

Only then did they discover that the withdrawal order had been given.

Only single men of a certain age group were conscripted ( they were given a free suit of civilian clothes as well as a uniform ), and after serving for about a year, would be discharged into the reserve.

In The Only Game in Town, a Mongol warrior, while not knowing that the two " magicians " he meets are time travelers from the future, correctly guesses their intentions — and captures them with the help of the " magic " flashlight they had given him in an attempt to impress him.

Only Mackenzie Bowell and the Viscount Bennett were given private funerals, Bennett also being the only former Prime Minister of Canada to die and be buried outside the country and Bowell the only whose funeral was not attended by politicians.

Only a few examples are given here:

Only one player per team may try to answer a given question.

Only a portion of the Broadway theatres feature a new production in any given season, and there are 27 award categories, so most new shows receive one or more nominations.

Only a united effort was then necessary to have given China the victory.

Only one can be used to mount any given disk volume at any given time.

Only two medals ( both made of gold ) were given before the practice was terminated, one posthumously to de la Luzerne and the other to his successor Count de Monstier.

* Only a simulation model of the environment is given ( the subject of simulation-based optimization );

Only the last and largest chamber, the body chamber, was occupied by the living animal at any given moment.

Only a select few are chosen by the original founders to come to the island, and thus newcomers who were not given a personal invitation are not welcome, but are not sent away because to do so would jeopardize the secrecy of the community.

Only when the first-born ( along with the rest of Israel ) sinned in the incident of the golden calf, the priesthood was given to the Tribe of Levi, which had not been tainted by this incident.

" Only in 1726 after William Benson's successor Hewett died, Hawksmoor was restored to secretaryship, though not the Clerkship of the works-this post was given to Filtcroft.

Only about 500, 000 of 900, 000 acres ( 2, 000 of ) of farmland in the county are planted in any given year due to the practice of typically harvesting one crop every two years, a necessity in a region with only 12 inches ( 300 mm ) of precipitation annually.

Only one process can use the resource at any given instant of time.

Only one of these instructions is used in a given implementation.

One newspaper wrote, comparing the current lifestyles of the Sex Pistols: " Only original bassist Glen Matlock remains touring with his own band, an irony given that he was sacked for being too conservative ".

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