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From the standpoint of ecology, Antarctica should be reserved solely for research, not for tourism or for commercial exploration.
Victory and defeat aren't solely decided by the size of your army.
Are you from a planet solely populated by women?
I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit. It amazes me, I confess; for, certainly, there can be nothing so advantageous to them as instruction.
The ferries are powered solely by the natural current of the Rhine.
Empirical data is based solely on observation.
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Let us not believe that the Devil belongs solely to the past.
You would like the clinic to verify your method, reserving its further application solely to yourself. That's quite impudent.
Give me your word of honour that your methods will be applied solely in room No. 13.
On the charge of outrageous acts against the government and my own person, I've decided to call you, gentlemen, in special assembly chaired solely by myself.
Can you possibly mean that you've come here solely on account of my letter?
Now thrive the armourers, and honour's thought reigns solely in the breast of every man.
In my mind you were indifferent to our problems, preoccupied solely with your own existence.
And remind her that Tsar Ivan in Moscow is solely in charge of negotiations.
Unlike you, I don't think the world runs solely on logic.
Lawton said they'd to prove him solely responsible.
The pursuit of glory creates solely a great hero. contempt of it creates a great man.
He lives solely by energy and reason.
I demand that the defendant show proof of his assertions, so we can put an end to this scandalous outbreak, intended solely to distract the court from the defendants' true crimes.
Her condition is due solely to psychological trauma.
All that remains are solely her instincts as a life-form.
Of course you realize your plea of self defence relies solely on this other man. Unless he appears and admits quarrelling with her prior to your arrival.
He would be intent solely upon his idea.
He caused a man to be murdered solely in order to distract me.
In spite of his well-known devotion to the Goddess of Chance, Rajni Singh insists that his visit to our shores in solely in the hope that British surgeons may restore his left arm paralyzed in the service of the Empire.
I mean the quiet kind, perpetrated solely in our mind.
As a modern businessman, I work solely on the basis of astrology.
Of course, it was understood these weapons were to be used solely for the purpose of hunting game.
Most people, you know, think cricket is solely for the Australians and the English but let me tell you this Shahbandar the West Indians are playing better than we are at the moment.
It is activated solely by mental commands.
Captain, Dr. McCoy's life is not solely dependant on Gem.
You are to decide, solely upon the evidence presented.. Whether the defendant committed the crime.
Let us not rely on deeds or on the constraints of the law, but solely on the word of the Gospel, which comforts the conscience.
Today's agenda is solely on the subject of increasing circulation.
Lou, my concern is solely for Richard's future.
Understand this: I'm staying in this house solely for the boy's sake.
All of our hearts are solely for our Motherland.
The Cherkes will accuse us and hold us solely responsible for this situation and thus seize power.
We will work solely for food and shelter.
But I, Mavic Chen, was solely responsible for the recovery of the Core of the Time Destructor.
One lives solely for his needs, another for the salvation of his soul.
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It was in Yugoslavia that Vojislav Kostunica was elected president, but his mandate comes solely from support in Serbia.
In the end, Chernobyl's legacy does not belong solely to Ukraine, for ours is a country located in the heart of Europe.
A wage premium based solely on citizenship is grating.
Since then, East Turkestan has existed solely on paper, as a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), a would-be competitor of the United Nations set up in 1991.
In short, Iranian officials' claims that their nuclear program is aimed solely at power generation or medical research lacks all plausibility.
Whether or not he was solely to blame, a true opportunity for historical compromise was missed at Camp David in August 2000, and he himself acknowledged it a year later.
A speculative bubble, sustaining itself solely by reaction to price increases, cannot go on forever.
More importantly, rallying the world solely against Russia would mean taking Russia's great power pretensions too seriously.
Group dynamics prevent company boards that consist solely of males from including women, even if members individually would support such a decision.
But responsibility for assisting Burma does not lie solely at the door of the UN.
Rather, the rich owe their wealth solely to their own luck and effort.
The quality of the assets backing the bonds depends solely on issuers' goodwill and technical skills.
The benefits of microfinance are in danger of being over-hyped - there are not that many successful micro-businesses that the poor can start solely with the help of loans, because skills and management abilities are also often necessary.
The decisions to improve the election law and receive Mashal are not aimed solely at persuading Jordan's own Islamists to join the political process.
On the other hand, the Court cannot charge - or refrain from charging - a senior political or military official responsible for grave crimes solely to avert negative political repercussions.
Moreover, the reality is that the US is now too stretched economically and militarily to succeed by relying solely on its own resources.
Yet it would be dangerous to redress past imbalances solely at the expense of traditional beneficiaries, especially because they remain powerful enough to derail the peace process.
It is unreasonable in this democratic age to pay special deference to people solely on the basis of their birth.
Securing a structure of peace in Asia, however, is not solely America's responsibility.
This so-called democratic transition, a process designed solely by dictators and with input only from the regime's loyalists, will result in continued dictatorship.
It was most likely prompted solely by domestic political considerations.
China's belated bouts of openness about the rural spread of AIDS and the SARS epidemic clearly indicate that the central government regards transparency solely as a matter of expediency.
No one should realistically expect the renminbi's exchange rate to be determined solely by the income level of the relatively prosperous eastern coastal regions.