Only France, said Le Monde, could break the politically correct consensus on enlargement.
Apart from America, which supplied the Tehran reactor in the 1960s, only France and Argentina can make the right fuel rods.
According to the European Commission's figures, only France among the euro-11 had a deficit that was even narrowly above 3% in 1997.
Propelled by its need to secure oil, natural gas and mineral resources to maintain its double-digit economic growth, China has become Africa's third-largest trading partner, behind only France and the United States.
Only Air France turned a profit--a very small profit, but even that was an accomplishment.
Chhouk Rin was prosecuted only after France, Britain and Australia put pressure on the government.
How his relations with the Socialist government develop over the next four years will matter not only for France but for Europe.
Only in France are they encouraged by the oddity that capital gains are taxed less heavily than income (so French executives have huge but undisclosed options).
The commission threatened, for instance, to block the government's recent bail-out of Alstom, an engineering group, approving a rescue plan only after France agreed to last-minute changes.
Not only had France and Germany decided that private creditors would have to worry about losing their money, but they had also cut a deal behind everyone's back.
Only in France could you record a reggae version of your national anthem, outraging upright citizens, and then, at your death, be compared to Baudelaire by the President.
It now educates a smaller proportion of its 15- to 19-year-olds than it did in 1995 (see chart), a dubious accolade shared only by France among the 30 OECD members.
But in 2007, with no formal training, Pic became the only female chef in France (and only the fourth woman in history) to earn the culinary world's top honor -- a three-Michelin-star rating -- for her family's restaurant, La Maison Pic, in the Rhone-Alpes town of Valence.
I'd been taught that great food only came from France, that the Michelin Guide was the only thing that mattered.
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More to the political point, only two of France's five big unions have accepted the deal.
France only rejoined the military wing in 1993, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Assisted reproduction is considered in France only as a way to treat the medical condition of infertility.
Within Europe, only Britain and France (both nuclear powers) have a tradition of wielding military force far afield.
Only last year France's economy was doing better in the recession than Germany's.
France only recently reduced statutory fees on refinancing, and Germany's last significant move was to liberalise interest rates in the 1970s.
The trouble is that small steps will take France only so far.
However, France only decided last week to intervene militarily in Mali.
But nowadays you find dogmatic hostility to France only on the dottier fringes of the Spanish right, and Mr Arroyo is keen to dissociate himself from jingoism.
Yet of the Europeans only Britain and France (with Germany coming up behind) have troops that can be moved anywhere in significant numbers and kept supplied for any length of time.
The trouble is, they have always agreed on the principle: indeed, the only thing that France, Germany and the ECB can agree is that a second support programme for Greece is essential.
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