Sentence examples for stage only if from inspiring English sources

No matter how elated he must have been onlookers would have been absorbed at that stage only if they owed allegiance to one of the clubs.

The manager of a theatre said he would allow Raymond and his two female colleagues on to his stage only if the females went on nude.

Gay characters now turn up regularly in Hollywood movies, as comic sidekicks or diversity tokens, but usually take center stage only if they are martyrs ("Brokeback Mountain," "Milk").

Zoe could exist on stage only if she died at the climax.

In cases where the tumor size was unknown, we assigned a stage only if the size was not a determinant in the TNM grouping.

Given the many years it takes to develop and prosecute these cases, some of them are reaching the settlement stage only now, even if the companies have since halted the practices that landed them in trouble.

The choreography for this dance in silence, which dates from 1979, keeps sending four women drifting across the stage, only to draw them back, as if magnetized by the wings.

Here the insurance principle comes centre stage, but only if politicians are prepared to treat taxpayers as grownups and sovereign.

Hiring writer after writer for the same story is what movies do, which gives the screen an edge over the stage, but only if we're talking about a bad play.

Patient selection for adjuvant therapy should be based upon more discriminatory pathological data than a crude assessment such as stage, but only if supported by evidence.

Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet, has recently toured the U.S. calling for such unilateralism, to be taken in stages and only if approved by the Knesset, a doubtful prospect at the moment.