Only, they carefully substituted old country folk dances for the Virginia Reels and square dances that were so popular among more worldly trains in the great westward migration.

Only recently, and perhaps because a television debate can so effectively dramatize President Kennedy's extraordinary mastery of detail, have the abilities on which the capacity for making distinctions depend begun to be clearly discernible at the level of politics.

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 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 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 a dozen or so schools send as many as six students, and there are seldom more than fifteen men in any single delegation.

Only ordained priests can administer it, and " any priest may carry the holy oil with him, so that in a case of necessity he can administer the sacrament of anointing of the sick.

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 a few monarchies ( most notably Japan and Sweden ) have amended their constitutions so that the monarch is no longer even the nominal chief executive.

Only a proportion of purebred heifers are needed to provide replacement cows, so often some of the cows in dairy herds are put to a beef bull to produce crossbred calves suitable for rearing as beef.

A group of MIT hackers responded by altering the banner so that the inscription read " The Only Institute of Technology.

" He said, " we recognize the imperative need for this development ... the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist ... Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

Only one notation name may be specified in the value of ENTITY attributes ( there's no support in SGML, XML 1. 0 or XML 1. 1 for multiple notation names in the same declared external ENTITY, so separate attributes will be needed ).

Only a very small number of copies could be made at a time, so circulation was extremely limited.

Only atoms with partially filled shells ( i. e., unpaired spins ) can have a net magnetic moment, so ferromagnetism only occurs in materials with partially filled shells.

Only a dozen or so were taken by British Columbian stations, nearly all of them in 1953 at Coal Harbour.

Only after 1800 did the supply increase sufficiently so that, on the insistence of Admiral Lord St Vincent, it began to be issued generally.

Only Jainas have been absolutely unwilling to allow such ideas to penetrate their community, despite the fact that there must have been tremendous amount of social pressure on them to do so.

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 Hezbollah retained its weapons, and was supported by Lebanon's parliament in doing so, because it officially for defending Lebanon against the Israeli occupation.

Only a limited number of planes are able to make the transatlantic journey, so when one lands they must prepare it for the return trip as quickly as possible.

Only after we have been integrated within the environment so as to perceive objects as such can we turn our attention toward particular objects within the landscape so as to define them more clearly.

Brando made the following comment about his sex life in an interview with Gary Carey, for his 1976 biography The Only Contender, " Homosexuality is so much in fashion it no longer makes news.

Only one of this first series ( and very few of the following three in which he did not appear ) has survived, the rest of the original disc recordings having apparently been destroyed or discarded as no longer usable, so there is almost no record of his work as a radio " Goon ".

Only a very few of the more advanced ones, such as India and Pakistan, have developed systematic techniques of programing.

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 a few years ago a middle western college circulated a request for a teacher of interior design.

Only a few other people -- very important people -- knew of the nitrogen-mustard eggs nestled below decks.

Only a few days after moving into the White House.

Only in a few cases are leaves produced along the length of the stem.

Only a few weeks after his accession the Ottoman Empire sustained a crushing defeat at the Battle of Slankamen from the Austrians under Margrave Louis William of Baden and was driven from Hungary.

Only a few dates and descriptions in Gettens ' and Stout's book are now outdated.

Only a few individuals in the Soviet Union dared to defend ' traitors ' like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn, and those who had dared were inevitably punished.

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

Only a few months later, Karl Schwarzschild found a solution to Einstein field equations, which describes the gravitational field of a point mass and a spherical mass.

Only a few species are arboreal-the North American gray fox, the closely related Channel Island fox, and the raccoon dog habitually climb trees.

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 a few interior valleys and coastal strips are flat enough for soil accumulations of consequence, however.

Only a very few comparable DOSes were stored elsewhere than floppy disks ; among these exceptions were the British BBC Micro's optional Disc Filing System, DFS, offered as a kit with a disk controller chip, a ROM chip, and a handful of logic chips, to be installed inside the computer ; and Commodore's CBM DOS, located in a ROM chip in each disk drive.

Only a few educated Romans with antiquarian interests, such as Varro, could read Etruscan.

Only a very few Protestants believe in the infallibility of ecumenical councils, but they usually restrict this infallibility to the Christological statements of the first seven councils.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

Only few scholars have argued against Paul's authorship.

Only a few fragments and letters of Epicurus's 300 written works remain.

Only in occupations relating to agriculture, forestry, and school teaching was a rough parity approached, and as few as 6 percent of Finns worked in jobs where 40 to 60 percent of workers were of the opposite sex.

Only a few years into his service as a federal judge, Hopkinson died in Philadelphia at the age of 53 from a sudden epileptic seizure.

Only a few fans could afford more professional printers, or the time it took them to print, until photocopying became cheap and ubiquitous in the 1970s.