Only the Brantas and Sala rivers could provide long-distance communication, and thus their valleys supported the centres of major kingdoms.

Only after the reunification with the construction of numerous shopping centres, government ministries, embassies, office buildings and entertainment venues, was the area revived.

Only recently it has become apparent that places in Central Asia like Merv in Turkmenistan and Akhsiket in Uzbekistan were important centres of production of crucible steel.

Only few centres of pottery production could compete with Athens in terms of innovativeness, quality and production capacity.

Only car manufacturers and automobile R & D centres are issued these plates.

# Only even permutations of centres are possible ( 2 )

# Only even permutations of the centres are possible ( 2 )

Only with the more sensual, intense and baroque expressions of Marenzio, Monteverdi and Gesualdo does the singing seem a little superficial.

Only economic risks seem to make governments act by George Monbiot November 1, 2010 in The Guardian

Only Eugène Delacroix and other pupils of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin — the leaders of that romantic movement for which Ingres throughout his long life always expressed the deepest abhorrence — seem to have recognized his merits.

Only two species seem incontrovertible: A. arenaria and A. breviligulata.

< p > Only now did he seem to understand my real reason for hiding among the ruins.

Only on Lanzarote does a somewhat larger number of these birds still seem to exist, but altogether this particular subspecies is precariously rare: Probably less than 300 and perhaps less than 200 birds still exist, and it is classified as insuficientemente conocida (" data deficient ") by the Spanish Ministry of Environment.

" Irwin appends a note: " Only a divine author, outside of time, would seem capable of alluding to a later text.

Only pollen and habit seem to provide a morphological basis for the separation.

Only Tibetan translations of this Sanskrit text seem to have survived.

Only in the North American population of Buteo brachyurus does it seem to be the prevalent form.

Only the youngest witch, Agnes, and the Omnian priest, Mightily Oats, seem able to resist this charm, due to their dual personalities.

Only at one location does it seem possible to trace a connection, at Mære church in Norway.

Only in retrospect do the warning signs seem obvious ; signs which pointed in other directions tend to be forgotten.

" Only when Williams is around does the movie seem human, true, and funny: Even in her slapstick there's pain ," wrote The Boston Globe reporter Wesley Morris.

Only studies analyzing the cultural oppression of homosexuality seem to take a less deterministic position.

Only in the first years after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 did a few Moravian political parties seem to be able to gain some success in elections.

Only the Federation representatives seem optimistic.

Only a small number of the genuine stamps seem to have survived.

Only a few species seem to have the very broad spectrum of prey seen in the raiding species.

Only the second movement ( Largo ) contains a prominent melody, while the external movements seem to be composed mainly of virtuosic piano runs and cadenzas.

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.

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

Only in Europe have our lines remained firm -- and there only on the surface.

Only in one instance have we moved purposively and effectively to dislodge existing Communist power: in Guatemala.

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 in its final scene, where Beatie Bryant ( Mary Doyle ) shakes off the disappointment of being jilted by her intellectual lover and proclaims her emancipation do we get much which makes worthwhile the series of boorish rustic happenings we have had to watch for most of the first two and one-half acts.

Only the Asteraceae have composite flower heads ; the other families do not, but share other characteristics such as storage of inulin that define the eleven families as more closely related to each other than to other plant families or orders such as the Rosids.

Only 28 of the 49 parties to the agreements have the right to participate in decision-making at these meetings, though the other 21 are still allowed to attend.

Only recently the ends of some highways that came rather close to one another from the east and the west have been connected.

Only with Aram Damascus is he believed to have had strained relations.

Only fragments of any of the plays have survived-about 340 in all, totaling about 1, 000 lines.

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.

Only when the side-effects have become too severe and / or a patient has been symptom-free for a long period of time is discontinuation carefully attempted.

Only open curves that have some infinite branch, can have an asymptote.

Only when all numbers have been added is the result held in the accumulator written to main memory or to another, non-accumulator, CPU register.

Only those Benedictine monks who have been ordained as a deacon or priest are also members of the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church.

Only Joel Schumacher might have had an opposing view.

Only on the route between Kaga-Bandoro and Ouandago, some 2, 000 houses have been burnt, leaving an estimated 10, 000 persons homeless.

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 four descents have ever been achieved.

Only 5 drivers have joined this exclusive club since-Rusty Wallace, Alan Kulwicki, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, and Matt Kenseth.

Only the states of Delaware, West Virginia, Vermont, Maine, North Dakota, and Wyoming do not have a single city with a population over 100, 000 as of the 2007 census estimates.

Only one PDP-3 appears to have been built, in 1960, by the CIA's Scientific Engineering Institute ( SEI ) in Waltham, Massachusetts.