For one thing, he says, the bar association's rules of conduct are only recommendations, proposals for what the laws should be.

Even if he did, the only recommendation she felt he would make was to put Ruth in the dreaded nursing home.

His only recommendation was that they pick up the pace.

But the policies urged in the report are only recommendations.

"My observations about constitutionality and remedy are clearly only recommendations," he said.

His only recommendation was that he had stayed alive so far.

The general managers can pass only recommendations, which are sent on to the league's board of governors.

The lines of attack were only recommendations, though.

Currently, therefore, the only clear recommendation for treatment is in symptomatic patients.

Still, agencies' budget recommendations to the mayor are only recommendations, and he can reject them.