Sentence examples for openness only to from inspiring English sources

Until now, American and European officials have criticized the Syrian government but stopped short of sanctioning Mr. Assad, who is still sometimes viewed as a reformer willing at least to make gestures of political openness only to be stymied by more hard-line elements in Syria's ruling elite.

"[Pope Francis'] willingness to have a commission study the role deaconesses played in the early Church suggests openness — but openness only to having women today fulfill an analogous role to the women of the early Church, not to 'changing' something (the all-male priesthood) that cannot be changed ..

The other is to argue that the constitution of moral facts by non-moral natural facts is an a posteriori matter, akin to the relation between water and H2O, and that therefore Moore's openness only points to a conceptual gap, not a metaphysical one (Ridge 2014: Section 2).

But Mr. Gorbachev has once again squandered the credit he was working hard to earn for a change of style, a new openness not only to his own people but to the rest of the world.

The airy openness appeals not only to the financial masters of the universe who want clients to see the views, but also to new media and technology firms that want a loftlike feel.

The Facebookification of the mobile web is a threat to openness, to choice, to privacy — but only if you care about those things.

Discussions of collaborative innovation in both academic journals and the popular media often wrongly link "openness" only with "flatness"—and even suggest that open, flat approaches are always superior.

But openness only on request is not always good enough.

As with Mr. Gorbachev's glasnost in general, the openness only went so far.

But her openness only goes so far; like most disabled people, she sometimes disguises the true extent of her disability.

The benefits of open systems cannot possibly accrue equally to the other side, i.e., that of the sellers or young companies that can base openness only on their new, often unproven technology.