Example sentences of "hold only for the " in BNC.

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1 This connection between high status employment work and present dissatisfaction with housework holds only for the middle-class women , but there is evidence that the tendency to be dissatisfied with housework in relation to the status of one 's previous job may involve the question of a ‘ reference group ’ .
2 However , as for small group tutorials , colloquia and seminars are usually held only for the senior years of the course .
3 It relies instead on a political theory about the legitimacy of private power and the conditions subject to which that power may be exercised : a theory that contends that power may be legitimately held only for the purpose of furthering the public good .
4 According to the quantity theory , money is held only for the purpose of making payments for current transactions .
5 It was normal practice for Rome to establish buffer states on her frontiers in the form of client kingdoms , an arrangement which held only for the lifetime of the chosen ruler .
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