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only and occasion
I can only hope that the continuing exchange of groups and individuals between our countries will not wear out all language pertinent to the occasion.
Look in this book for weak mortals and only on occasion for virtues and vices on the heroic scale.
The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, the last occasion being the famous flood of 1966, with 4, 500 m³ / s after rainfall of in Badia Agnano and in Florence, in only 24 hours.
Monet had insisted that the occasion be simple ; thus only about fifty people attended the ceremony.
He was licensed a minister of the Church of Scotland, but only preached from the pulpit on one occasion.
The most obvious of which is spontaneous body posture of a longitudinal tilt of the torso toward the paretic side of the body occurring on a regular basis and not only on occasion.
It was on this occasion that Pasteur uttered his oft-quoted remark: "... dans les champs de l ' observation, le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés " ( In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.
The only occasion when Sayers returned to Wimsey was the 1942 short story " Talboys ".
Another Channel 4 poll in 2001 named it the 23rd greatest film of all time ( the only comedy that came higher on this occasion was Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot, which was ranked 5th ).
In terms of catering at the customers ’ sites, foodservice establishments of this category often only provided dishes strictly according to their menu, and would not provide any dishes that were not on the menu, because they were generally incapable of providing dishes outside their menu according to the specific occasion.
On only one occasion, during the military history of the Soviet Union, the Narodnoe Opolcheniye was incorporated into the regular forces of the Red Army, notably in Leningrad and Moscow.
Both of these remarks, of course, are made only for the present, on the assumption that both these outstanding and devoted Party workers fail to find an occasion to enhance their knowledge and amend their one-sidedness.
One of the youngest popes, he was the only man to have been Pope on more than one occasion and the only man ever to have sold the papacy.
If you cut enemy supply lines, the only option for him will be to ensure supplies by air ... ( sic ).. at that situation the Indian Army was unlikely to confront and it had to come up to the occasion.
On occasion the Court was accused of extending its jurisdiction ; strictly speaking only allowed to intervene in matters of international law, the Court became involved in municipal law during the Loans Cases.
Shakedown marks the only occasion in which the Sontarans and their Rutan foes appear on screen together, and was adapted into a Virgin New Adventures novel.
Williams lacked foot speed, as attested by his 19-year career total of only one inside-the-park home run, one occasion of hitting for the cycle, and just 24 stolen bases.
He did not live with any of the others, however, and can be confirmed to only have met with any of them in Hamburg on a single occasion: that of Said Bahaji ’ s wedding at the al-Quds Mosque.
* May 31 – Mecklenburg Correctional Center-6 inmates-including James and Linwood Briley escape from a death row facility, the first and only occasion this has ever happened in the US.
One partner may stay overnight on occasion, then it becomes a regular occurrence, and then the two decide it makes more sense to save money and only pay rent on one residence instead of two when only one is being occupied full-time.
Besser was the only " third " Stooge that dared to hit Moe back in retaliation and get away with it ; Larry Fine was also known to hit Moe on occasion, but always with serious repercussions.
It is likely that six or fewer Shillelagh missiles were fired at Iraqi bunkers ; this appears to be the only occasion in which Shillelagh missiles were fired in a combat environment, from the inventory of the aforementioned 88, 000 missiles produced.

only and when
The horses were only several lengths away when he fired.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
With the rapid rate of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would be only a moment when damage could be done.
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.
In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.
In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.
His revolutionary pamphlets, published when he was only 19, quickly brought him to the attention of the patriot leaders.
He issued his Emancipation Proclamation only when he felt that necessity left him no other way to save the Union.
But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.
Here there may be an analogy with cancer: we can detect cancers by their rapidly accelerating growth, determinable only when related to the more normal rate of healthy growth.
This means that the inception of change itself can begin only when the factors conducive to change have already become more powerful than those anchoring the existent form in being.
so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.
In any case, Miss Millay's sweet-throated bitterness, her variations on the theme that the world was not only well lost for love but even well lost for lost love, her constant and wonderfully tragic posture, so unlike that of Fitzgerald since it required no scenery or props, drew from the me that I was when I fell upon her verses an overwhelming yea.
`` The place had no sink or washbasin, only a bathtub '', his mother discovered when she visited him.
About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.
If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.
A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.
Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.
Understanding, as he did, the difficulty of the art of poetry, and believing that the `` only technical criticism worth having in poetry is that of poets '', he felt obliged to insist upon his duty to be hard to please when it came to the review of a book of verse.
The bills were principally for hospitalization and doctors' fees during the last years of his life, and when he died he owed in the main only current doctor's bills.
In my experience the assurance of forgiveness comes only when I have confessed to the wronged one and have made as full reparation as I can devise.

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