It was understood at once that such a change would be explosive; Senator Trent Lott, the former Majority Leader, came up with "nuclear option," and the term stuck.
His philosophical stance has typically been understood as at once extremely paradoxical and yet crucial for the broader development of Greek natural philosophy and metaphysics.
From Egypt to Pakistan, it must be understood that Islam cannot at once be a political force and above criticism.
Either theory can be understood in a descriptive way, prescriptive way, or both ways at once.
But the key words are understood almost at once.
No great musician, however, was ever understood at once; and, in regard to such musicians as Beethoven, for example, the most sagacious critics have found themselves aridly committed by opinions hastily expressed.
While some women became ascetics, many more focused their religious lives on realizing a state of blessedness that was understood to be at once this-worldly and expressive of a larger cosmic well-being.
However, the analysis of such complex systems is a dynamic and continuous process, and all components cannot be identified or understood at once.
At their neat bungalow home in Slavutych, Kondratiev adds: "When I saw the power plant, I understood at once there was no chance we were going back …" His wife shakes her head: "I definitely thought we were coming back at first.
Still, he understood at once that television was something important for better or worse, and he decided on the spot to be part of it.
I understood at once that it was an attack.
