If this once spelled fireworks, they have long ago sputtered out.
Breton's novel begins "Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt'".
Hart's own view is that an overweening deference to law consorts more easily with theories that imbue it with moral ideals, permitting "an enormous overvaluation of the importance of the bare fact that a rule may be said to be a valid rule of law, as if this, once declared, was conclusive of the final moral question: 'Ought this law to be obeyed?" (Hart 1958, p. 75).
"If this once-in-a-generation opportunity to pass a public option goes down the drain after we were just a couple votes away in each house of Congress, everyone will remember exactly who was and was not willing to fight when it counted," said the group's co-founder, Adam Green, when asked why he aired the ad.
It was as if, just this once, the clichés of New York heart trumped the clichés of New York indifference.
So Miceli, 44, a call centre worker, asked her supervisor if, just this once, she could slip out for two hours.
As far as I'm concerned, seating average Americans in the Capitol, for once, if only this once, made the whole food fight worth the wait.
"I'm proud to introduce a friend of mine, from the New York Giants, Michael Strahan," he said coolly, as if this happened once a day, not once in a lifetime.
Suspend my passport if you like: this once loyal citizen of Red Sox Nation hadn't watched an inning all season, until Wednesday night.
If you do this once with, say, zucchini slices, you get a deeply craggy, golden shell surrounding a tender vegetable chip.
"You won't forever after blame me or be jealous of the others if we do this once, to celebrate my coming back to life with your great help, right?" I shook my head no.
