Sentence examples for approved only one from inspiring English sources

Between 1976 and 2004, when Willingham filed his petition, the State of Texas had approved only one application for clemency from a prisoner on death row.

Instead, they cast their votes by fax -- a process which, the New Yorker article states, "has become known as 'death by fax.'" Even more troubling: "Between 1976 and 2004, when Willingham filed his petition, the State of Texas had approved only one application for clemency from a prisoner on death row".

Until the approval of the GM salmon, the FDA has approved only one product, an anticoagulant derived from the milk of transgenic goats.

The Red Cross had approved only one.

The government licenses political parties -- and has approved only one new party in the past 22 years.

Mr. Davis had asked for two new prisons, the one in Delano and a smaller one in San Diego County; the Legislature approved only one.

Hoping to tether Republicans to Washington during the final stretch of the campaign, Mr. Clinton approved only one-day temporary stopgaps to keep the government operating.

His bosses at Ford would approve only one risky new project that year, 1986.

The corporate chiefs of Sony Music Entertainment and Bertelsmann's BMG had scrambled to strike a deal and present it to regulators before any rivals, fearing that authorities might be willing to approve only one industry combination.

"I give my boss probably four or five ideas for good-ass burns a week, and he usually approves only one," said one Democratic staffer.

Since the disaster, the United States Small Business Administration has approved only about one in three applications for disaster loans.