This goal was achieved only once instruments provided access to the microstructure of materials.
The capsule ejection system was repeatedly tested, but in-air payload recovery was achieved only once during the early years of the program: the capsule released by Discoverer 14 was retrieved on Aug. 18, 1960.
Liberals from the Institute of Contemporary Development, a Russian think tank, countered that successful economic modernization could be achieved only once Russia had established effective democratic institutions, such as the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and press freedom.
Napoleon enjoyed several advantages the Union didn't, including shorter conflicts, narrower geography and population density, pockets of friendly population support, closer supply lines and an ability to defeat opposing armies completely (something that was achieved only once in the Civil War, at the Battle of Nashville in late 1864).
The observed number of hits in the RDC schizoaffective disorder, bipolar type set was achieved only once in any of the 2500 simulations of 279 participants randomly selected from the bipolar disorder data-set and compared with the controls.
(That phrase either means nothing at all, since in some sense we have been in "a time of war" since at least 9/11, or else means something so doomed and horrific — full-scale permanent warfare in the Middle East — that, as the historian Andrew Bacevich has explained, it could be achieved only by changing everything once admirable about American life).
Once clarity of thought process is achieved, only then should one venture into this terrain.
This ranking continues through their professional life — once in the company, promotion can be achieved only through an annual competition.
But the task of turning round a party that has just been ejected from government and making it electable again within a single term is a hard one – achieved only once in the postwar era by Labour in 1974 with a lot of help from Edward Heath.
