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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are proper only" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to specify that something is appropriate or suitable exclusively in certain contexts or conditions.
Example: "These guidelines are proper only for advanced users who understand the complexities involved."
Alternatives: "are suitable solely" or "are appropriate exclusively".
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Eight courts have ruled that such searches are proper only if there is a reasonable suspicion that the arrested person has weapons or contraband.
From the LDS: "Sexual relations are proper only between a man and a woman who are legally and lawfully wedded as husband and wife.
"An historic" and "a historical" are proper only if you use the alternative pronunciation with a silent "h".
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At least seven other appeals courts, on the other hand, had ruled that such searches were proper only if there was a reasonable suspicion that the arrested person had contraband.
It is instructive that month after month, year after year, this 'review' panel always voted for more medicationdespite the scientific literature showing that periodic respites from drugs are advisable and that prolonged use of antipsychotic drugs is proper only when the medical need is clear and compelling". Psychologists Brieff 26-27 (fomitted omitted).
Summary judgment is proper only if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.
The court reasoned that under Terry, the frisk, as opposed to the detention, is proper only if the detaining officer reasonably believes that the suspect may be armed and dangerous, in addition to having an articulable suspicion that criminal activity is afoot.
Because of this predominance, both the Republic and the present Kingdom of the Netherlands are often called "Holland"; but this name as applied to the whole country is proper only for the Napoleonic Kingdom of Holland, which occupied the territory of the old republic between 1806 and 1810.
Relation is proper only to the person.
Recently, John Turri (2013) has published results from a series of survey studies, where the aim was to determine whether speakers accept a factive or a non-factive norm: the norm is factive in case an assertion is proper only if what is asserted is true, otherwise non-factive.
Further, Rawls appears to endorse a presumption in favor of liberty in his liberal principle of legitimacy: "Our exercise of political power is proper only when we sincerely believe that the reasons we offer for our political action may reasonably be accepted by other citizens as a justification of those actions" (Rawls 2005, xlvi).
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