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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.
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Only one other contemporary of More's evokes so immediate and direct a response, and only one other contemporary work -- Niccolo Machiavelli and The Prince.
Only in one instance have we moved purposively and effectively to dislodge existing Communist power: in Guatemala.
Only two principal storehouses were actually established -- one at Mobile, the other at New Orleans.
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 paved alleyways tunneled through the walls of those fortresses into the mysterious core of intimacy behind the houses where backyards owned no fences, where one man's property blended with the next to form courtyards in which no one knew privacy.
" 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 one year of deficit was recorded, but the price paid was retrenchments and lean public spending.
Only recently the ends of some highways that came rather close to one another from the east and the west have been connected.
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.
In 1983 an a cappella group known as The Flying Pickets had a Christmas ' number one ' in the UK with a cover of Yazoo's ( known in the US as Yaz ) " Only You ".
Only one adjacent country is connected to Burkina Faso via rail, Côte d ' Ivoire, a country in which the same one-metre gauge is employed.
Only the addition of significant new forces on one side or the other seemed likely to tip the scale.
Only and rule
Only the former International Race of Champions actually retired the No. 3, which they did in a rule change effective in 2004.
: Only when each people, left to itself, develops and forms itself in accordance with its own peculiar quality, and only when in every people each individual develops himself in accordance with that common quality, as well as in accordance with his own peculiar quality-then, and then only, does the manifestation of divinity appear in its true mirror as it ought to be ; and only a man who either entirely lacks the notion of the rule of law and divine order, or else is an obdurate enemy thereto, could take upon himself to want to interfere with that law, which is the highest law in the spiritual world!
Only Thailand was spared the experience of foreign rule, although, Thailand itself was also greatly affected by the power politics of the Western powers.
Only the chapter house was completed before he died and the work was ably continued by his successor, Robert of Pipewell, under whose rule the abbey gained a reputation for caring for the needy.
Only the palace and the church survived, but the town managed to recover under the rule of bishop Andrzej Załuski.
: Only teach thy sons the bow and all weapons of war, in order that they may fight the battles of their brother who will rule over his enemies.
Only after the Dutch rule during the period of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands ( 1815 – 1830 ) and the establishment of the kingdom of Belgium, came a period of increasing prosperity for the region.
Only with the unification by King Anaukpetlun that the Mons again fell under the rule of the Burmese in 1616.
# If you pull into my driveway and honk, you better be dropping off a package because you're sure not picking anything up ( Alternative rule # 5: Only delivery men honk.
Only a higher power could judge the two " equal swords ", as each was given power by God to rule over their respected domains.
Only when he has regulated his Internal and his social relations by this ideal can he be regarded as rule moral.
Only one person is supposed to attempt catching the bull, but this rule being strictly enforced depends on the village where the event is conducted and more importantly, the bull himself.
" Only a card which has an even number on one face and which is not red on the other face can invalidate this rule.
Only cyclobutadiene and benzene are fully planar, though and annulene with all trans double bonds ( placing the hydrogens inside the ring ) can achieve the planar conformation needed for aromaticity, with and annulene following Hückel's rule with 4n + 2 π electrons.
Only the first rule shall now be used except in appeler, jeter, and their derivatives ( which continue to use ll and tt ).
Only Ermland's diocesan chapter maintained independence, enabling to establish its autonomous rule in the capitular third of Ermland's diocesan territory ( Prince-Bishopric of Ermeland ).
Only some of the most modern operating systems ( Windows XP included ) may disregard this rule, but doing so can still cause some compatibility issues, especially if the user wants to perform dual booting on the same drive.
Only with the rule of Yusuf's grandson, Ibrahim Adil Shah I ( 1534 – 1558 ), did the title of Adil Shah come into common use.
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