Sentence examples for only to build from inspiring English sources

Second, China has not been a major naval power for centuries, and building a navy requires a long time not only to build ships but to create well-trained and experienced sailors.

Japan's desire for "normalisation" aims only to build on those benign influences.

Sometimes it seems to me that we destroy one wall only to build another.

*** During the night the wind began to calm, only to build up once again.

Many states in the United States established motor fuel taxes that were used only to build and maintain highways.

Workers could enter the zone only to build the roads and rail, leaving no other permanent structures.

Not content only to build the football program, Paterno was an advocate for academic integrity and donated millions to build up the nonsporting programs of the university.

As my colleague Keith Bradsher has reported from Beijing, China has offered not only to build, but also to help finance, California's high-speed railroad.

Competent Iraqi security forces are essential not only to build a democratic country, but also to let the Pentagon start withdrawing troops, the Americans say.

Mr. Butler contends that the United States should push for new weapons inspections, if only to build an international case against Mr. Hussein.

But many think that the "largest legal creation of wealth in the history of the planet", as John Doerr, a leading venture capitalist, once put it, should not serve only to build bigger homes and buy ever larger yachts.