Sentence examples for thing only when from inspiring English sources

Regulation, it would appear, is a good thing only when it serves your purposes.

But broccoli is a bad thing only when it is badly done.

We might want to think what this whole doing the right thing – only when caught – says about Apple's senior management.

SOME skeptics may believe a thing only when they see it in writing, but is the writing more believable when it is seen on paper rather than on a computer screen?

Do you think that most people cannot be trusted, are mostly out for their own personal gain, would lie to get ahead, know less than they pretend to know, use people chiefly for what they can get from them, exaggerate their misfortunes, don't really care what happens to you and do the right thing only when it suits them?

We should do the same thing only when the similarities between two cases are the most ethically relevant features of the situation.

Mr. Cengiz replaced some of the floorboards, but said he took care to change things only when repairs were necessary.

The first is, they tell you meaningful things only when you talk to them in places other than where they have been trained to answer questions.

We often ask if he intends to return to fashion: we're always told he does things only when it seems right.

For this disease ("dis-ease") there is a simple but powerful prescription, offered by Bertrand Russell; the key to happiness, he said, is to worry about things only when relevant.

Mr. Watzman poses a choice between barbarism (suicide bombers) and the civilized world, in which "we do terrible things only when it is necessary to prevent something even worse from happening".