Sentence examples for Singular occurrence from inspiring English sources

How you regard this singular occurrence depends on your point of view.

His story is part of a common narrative, not a singular occurrence.

Jarre took his spectacular show to China in 1981, an incredible and singular occurrence at the time.

There were some pockets of the city where homicide was a singular occurrence: 12 of the city's 77 police precincts, in locations as varied as Hamilton Heights, in Upper Manhattan, and Park Slope, Brooklyn, had logged one each through Sunday.

Because they covered only a single month in 2003, it could not be determined if the pattern of payments to the nine people was a singular occurrence, or continued closer in proximity to the hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions that Mr. Hsu eventually bundled.

That isn't a singular occurrence, it was just the worst day.

This follows from its treatment of bare singular occurrences of names as definite descriptions, where a given name "N" is analyzed as the x s.t.

If one is also concerned with causal explanation if one holds that singular occurrences are explained by citing their causes then the causal completeness of physics in turn commits multiple realizability proponents to physics' possessing an important variety of explanatory completeness that all other sciences lack.

The majority of farms reported singular occurrences of births and deaths.

A substitution instance is the result of replacing primitive non-logical symbols by possibly more complex ones of the same semantic type n-place predicatype n-placen formulas in n variables, and individual constants with singular terms—each occurrence of the same predicatessymbol being replaced by the same possibly complex symbol.

Causal explanations explain because they fit singular causal occurrences into true causal generalizations (2005, 442 43).