"The only buyer in town right now wants to make sure there's no competition," he said.

Certainly he was not the only buyer for such slaves.

Denying a sale to the only prospective buyer would have serious negative impact on the value of the company.

"I was the only buyer in the market," he tells us.

The only buyer was the German government, and it could only pay with building a tanker.

Anther example is defense industry, where the state is the often only buyer.

There is no market for it; the only possible buyer is the team, which will pay 2.5 cents a share.

CP was the only buyer, buying 25 units, numbered 9000 - 9024.

At his 1905 exhibition, the only buyer of a painting was his former teacher Grigorescu.

The only potential buyers are foreigners and a handful of privileged or well-heeled citizens.