Reports of teachers having been forced to collect signatures to register them in the first place fortified the impression that their names appeared on the ballot only to provide a veneer of pluralism.No one expected Mr Rakhmon the lone face of politics in Tajikistan after 21 years at the helm to lose this managed election, of course.
Few, however, believe that the charismatic leader -- the lone face of the anti-guerrilla organization -- will soon fade from the scene.
There, the congressman positioned himself as a lone figure facing the government's table full of prosecutors and F.B.I. agents.
You are the heroic commander of a lone hovertank, facing off against a battalion of enemy hovertanks who have encroached upon your peaceful snowglobe home.
The most common version of the image, distributed worldwide by The Associated Press, shows a lone man facing down a line of tanks near Tiananmen Square the day after Chinese troops killed hundreds or thousands of peaceful protesters.
EU officials are briefing that 'net payers' -- the countries whose contributions fund the Union -- could not reach agreement, but that there was no single flashpoint, and David Cameron didn't find himself as a lone voice facing the other 26 countries.
Leonard Menchiari, a director and animator from Florence who is developing the game, said in an e-mail exchange that the concept was initially inspired by a photograph of a lone protester facing a line of armored police in Cairo — a scene replicated in the game's trailer.
Less ironic in its appearance than much of Sherman's work, the artist has here captured all the wistful romanticism attached to the image of a lone individual facing the wide open spaces.
But what she didn't say in her lone face-to-face shot with Mr. Cuomo also loomed large.
Fusing home video from 1992 with new 35mm material, the film drives through backyard neighbourhoods and down trashed boulevards, occasionally settling on lone faces in tragic portrait.
One of the lone faces to regularly appear outside the Moakley U.S. Courthouse is death penalty opponent Joe Kebartas, 66, of South Boston.
