For like it or not, the only future she was going to have after tonight was in his past.

She was his only future- his daughter- the one thing in the universe he might have done right.

And the children are the only future we have.

Not the only conceivable future, certainly, because of surprise factors that no model could include.

He said: "The only possible future for all of us is to overcome our differences.

Like the ancient Romans, you thought the only future lay with the organization in power.

That is the only long-term future for the coal industry.

If the only future you see for us is one of hostility, fine.

And he sees that the only future for his country lies in a return to Europe.

Yet their kind of empathy might be the only viable future for us.