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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.
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Only and paved
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 7, 854 km out of over 20, 000 km of Georgian roads are paved.
Only Khartoum International Airport was equipped with modern operational facilities, but by the early 1990s, Khartoum and seven other airports had paved runways.
Only a handful of the streets were paved, and most homes were used as summer homes.
Only the main roads were paved, according to a 1938 map.
Only a small fraction of the road is paved because permafrost and the freeze-thaw cycle create an enormous cost for maintaining the road.
Only 19. 36 % of the roads in the province are paved and only 10. 53 % of respondents to a survey of local businesses think that road quality is good or very good.
Only the major roads are paved and the rate of electricity connection is almost universal.
Image: Pgstreetscene1. jpg | Only the streets around the Plaza are paved.
Only and through
Only high frequency sounds like mating calls are heard in this way but low frequency noises can be detected through another mechanism.
Only thirty-eight made it through their first year in the New World.
Only when Lenin sought a coalition with Trotsky and others, were negotiations with the Germans voted through with a simple majority.
Only through the activities of her fleets did Elizabeth pursue an aggressive policy.
Only the daytime games survived during this period ; game shows remained a fixture of daytime television through the 1960s along with soap operas, reruns, and local telecasts of old films.
Only later ( about the time of the release of Doom II ) did Id Software release their games via more traditional shrink-wrapped boxes in stores ( through other game publishers ).
Only in civil society, can man be ennobled — through the use of reason: The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.
Only when an incumbent president is absolutely absent ( either through resignation, impeachment or death ), the Congress of the Union constitutes itself acts as an electoral college to elect an interim president by absolute majority.
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 a legal ( possessor has legal ground ), bona fide ( possessor does not know he has no right to possess ) and regular possession ( not acquired through force or by deceit ) can become ownership over passage of time.
Only minimal efforts had been expended through the early 1980s to improve existing and, according to both Sudanese and foreign observers, largely inefficiently operated transport facilities.
Only 18 people passed the impact zone through the available stairway and left the South Tower safely before it collapsed.
Only through the activities of the National Research Council of the Humanities and the dedicated efforts of certain ambitious university professors created some expansion of historical scholarship.
Only through studies by Charles Frédéric Gerhardt and Auguste Laurent on organic chemistry was it possible to demonstrate that Avogadro's law explained why the same quantities of molecules in a gas have the same volume.
Only systematics counted as true science and field studies were considered inferior through much of the 19th century.
" Only with pure minds then can the blessings be received by the recipient through the Yoboku administering the Sazuke.
Only through learning a system completely will an artist be able to, " absorb what is useful ," and discard the remainder.
Only by altering available purchasing power through debt, selling off assets, or new wages from new forms of domestic production, will the imported goods be purchased.
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 call packets from or destined to a phone serviced by the concentrator actually are processed by the concentrator — nonlocal phones ' time slots just pass through the concentrator unchanged.
Only Wyatt Earp came through the fight unharmed.
Only nine months after winning the Cup, in March 1906, the Montreal Wanderers pushed through a resolution at the annual meeting of the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association ( ECAHA ) that would allow professional players to play alongside amateurs.
Only actual U. S. states and the District of Columbia had FIPS state numeric codes in the range 01 through 56.
Only after Biot was able to analyze the rocks at l ’ Aigle was it commonly accepted that the fireballs seen in the sky were meteors falling through the atmosphere.
Only and walls
Only cities and metropolises may have walls, and each city or metropolis can only have one wall, up to three walls per player.
Only a last-minute rebuilding of its walls had preserved Constantinople unscathed.
Only the southern tip of a large town has been uncovered, yet it has revealed complexes of multi-level buildings, streets, and squares with remains of walls standing as high as eight metres, all entombed in the solidified ash of the famous eruption of Thera.
Only the exterior walls remained, and they had to be torn down and mostly reconstructed because of weakening from the fire and subsequent exposure to the elements, except for portions of the south wall.
Only 20 % of the power produced by the D-T reaction could be used this way ; the other 80 % is released in the form of neutrons which, because they cannot be directed by magnetic fields or solid walls, would be very difficult to use for thrust.
Only one section of the original Roman walls remains.
Only the Abdijkerk ( Abbey church ), the monastery terrain, and bits and pieces of walls remind us of the religious beginnings of the city.
Only the shell of the outer walls remained.
Only those walls and some scattered foundations from other icehouses remain.
Only fragments of walls remind that there was a fortress once.
Only a few walls and a storage barn of the original abbey survive.
Only public, non-domestic foundations remain, with poorly reconstructed walls.
Only parts of the platform walls were decorated because it was planned to operate the branch with short trains.
Only one unusual nine-sided tower survives, together with the moat walls and medieval bridge.
Only the foundations remain of 3 circular stone walls separated by ditches.
Only the outer walls remained.
Only the outer walls survived.
Only the lower sections of the walls and columns of the shrine remain.
Only the lower sections of the walls and columns of the temple superstructure remain.
Only four bubble walls can meet at a point, with the lines where triplets of bubble walls meet separated by cos < sup >− 1 </ sup >(− 1 / 3 ) ≈ 109. 47 °.
Only the base of some of the walls remained from the old building and these were partially excavated in 1955 before the car park was constructed The remains of the building lie under the far side of the car park ( farthest from the church ) extending from north west to south east, parallel with the fence at the end.
Only the newly-appearing stone walls, which were replacing the earlier mudbrick and wood walls, were strong enough to support the weight of a tiled roof.
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