However, these well-meaning pieces of international law have become almost the only channel through which most immigrants can hope to enter most rich countries.
No one liked it, but the reality was that embedding with American, British or other NATO troops had become almost the only way to do any kind of reporting in areas dominated by the Taliban.
Many economists said an economic stimulus bill was crucial, regardless of the details, because government spending has become almost the only way to break the vicious cycle between sinking demand and sinking investment.
The push to drill started before the Bush administration came into office, but in recent months oil and gas issues have become almost the only items on her agenda, Ms. Mecham said.
Under the later Seljuqs (particularly the Artuqid atabegs of Mosul) and the Mamlūks, engraving became almost the only form of decoration, but only to serve as a basis for the yet richer technique of inlaying, or damascening: small silver plates and wires, themselves delicately engraved, were hammered into the ribs and surfaces, which were hollowed out and undercut at the edges.
"We're obviously more and more focused on international gateways and on access to the web and the Internet," says Lankester, who acknowledges that the World Wide Web has of late become "almost the only solution".
Indeed, he became almost the only Republican presidential contender to criticize the invasion ordered by the last Republican president.
With a second ortho-fluorine (series c), the g_ chel and perp conformations become almost the only populated forms, whereas they were clearly less abundant in series a and b.
When the path loss difference between LOS and NLOS links is larger than 16 dB, the BER performance becomes almost the same with the LOS only channel.
Consequently, the implementation of marker-assisted selection (MAS) becomes, almost exclusively, the only feasible option for reducing costs while at the same time improving breeding efficiency.
