The phrase "alone an act" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to express the idea of an act being performed in solitude, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "To be alone an act of courage is often misunderstood."
Alternatives: "an act in solitude" or "a solitary act".
Cassandra: Is eating alone an act of bravery?
They simply left, alone — an act dramatic enough for that time and place that it shouldn't need the enhancements of pulp plotting.
In these days of the firework music career (rocket up, rocket down), any band would be proud to be playing such a venue seven years after their first hit, let alone an act from the throwaway world of pop.
Writing about the atrocity for Foreign Policy on Tuesday, Peter Bouckaert, the emergencies director at Human Rights Watch, said: Abu Sakkar is just one man, and there are many other armed fighters in Syria who reject such sectarian actions and would be horrified by the mutilation and desecration of a corpse — let alone an act of cannibalism.
It is hard to understand now that what came as a relief to Edwards came as an extraordinary shock to the rest of the world, and particularly New Zealand, which had never seen a bomb explode in anger on its territory, let alone an act of terrorism.
Peter Bouckaert from Human Rights Watch stresses that Abu Sakkar is "just one man, and there are many other armed fighters in Syria who reject such sectarian actions and would be horrified by the mutilation and desecration of a corpse - let alone an act of cannibalism".
The pattern has become dismally routine: A man, typically acting alone, commits an act of public violence stunning in its indifference to human life.
The assembly also assented to the articles of deposition, because abdication alone, as an act that could be rescinded, was insufficient.
Giving any "aid and comfort" to the Saudis would alone constitute an act of treason.
We are a nation where being black -- and nothing more; your blackness alone -- is an act of defiance.
For he is fully responsible for his act of embezzlement, and it is this act — and this act alone — that constitutes an act of institutional corruption.
