However much we might sympathize or agree with EPA's policy objectives, EPA may act only within the boundaries of its statutory authority.
A country, a style or an epoch are interesting only for the idea behind them.
We must ensure not only that everyone receives equal pay for equal work, but that they have the opportunity to do equal work.
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved.
If there are four equations and only three variables, and no one of the equations is derivable from the others by algebraic manipulation then there is another variable missing.
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
Progress is always relative: to the oppressed, it can only be viewed as an all or nothing deal - if oppression continues, even in a modified form, then the system must still be attacked until that injustice is eradicated.
It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it would be eroded by big money.
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.
Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.
Branding music as 'for the youth' is only an escapist tendency. Preference in music is only about restrictions of the mind.
I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.
The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.
In the 1990s, from the estates of Scotland came the phenomenon of Irvine Welsh. 'Trainspotting' demanded its place not only in the high ranks of contemporary fiction but as a describer of a Britain that literally and metaphorically was in a deep mess.
