Sentence examples for as the singular from inspiring English sources

While Egypt was once seen as the singular strategic player in the region, today other countries play a larger role.

The order of the portraits is as important as the singular carte de visite that circulated in the North.

Nyong'o won for supporting actress for her performance as the singular slave Patsy in Steve McQueen's historical drama.

Since Lerner's departure, Curitiba has begun a backslide that threatens its status as the singular case of enlightened planning.

The plural "their" has no plural noun for its antecedent; "team" is singular, as the singular "prides" and "itself" make clear.

The parallels between Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe are striking: both were once viewed as the singular successes in their respective regions, the envy of their neighbors.

While the opposition to abortion is a tenet of Catholicism, they do not see it as the singular issue around which their religion revolves.

For many years, I've been rooting for — but stopping short of employing — what is known as the singular they as the only sensible solution to English's lack of a gender-neutral third-person singular personal pronoun.

The regularized image system contains the same elements as the singular counterpart but with coefficients that depend on a regularization parameter.

President Bush has said that, of the current Justices, he admires Scalia and Thomas the most, and Scalia, who is sixty-nine, is recognized, even by his ideological opponents, as the singular conservative mind of the Rehnquist Court.

But to get there — or get there without a protracted battle — he will have to fend off efforts by his rivals in South Carolina to emerge as the singular anti-Romney candidate.