Alderson was asked if he could envision giving a single player a $100 million contract.
Quite right: left alone, pay committees will spout pages of jargon to avoid giving a single figure for how much a director could make.
It called for giving a single dose of the drug, nevirapine, to women during labor and another dose to the newborn within three days of birth.
Stage Left also continues a practice that should go the way of menus with prices for men only -- giving a single wine list to a table, usually to a man.
What, like AV? — Wings Over Scotland (@WingsScotland) May 14, 2014 Osborne's been talking about sterlingisation for a good ten minutes now without giving a single reason why it wouldn't work.
She visited the studios of Radio 4's Today programme, where she spoke to listeners, and listened to a live performance in the Radio 1 studio, giving a single clap at the end of the performance.
By showing a program on WB and on one of the cable channels -- or both -- Turner is giving a single episode of a series a larger audience so that it can sell more advertising time for that episode at a higher rate.
Flaubert did strange things, such as eliminating any authorial voice or stable moral centre; he used the imperfect as his main tense, giving a single action the sense of being suspended in time; played with varying shades of irony down to the deepest hues of pastiche; slipped between the subjective and the objective viewpoint without a tremor.
BG Back before "Newcastle United" was entered into the dictionary as the correct collective term for a load of players who have stopped giving a single crud about results, Alan Pardew's side registered an historic 1-0 victory at Old Trafford, marking the high-point of their season and one of the lows of Manchester United's.
(6) The fallacy of many questions (plurimum interrogationum) consists in demanding or giving a single answer to a question when this answer could either be divided (example: "Do you like the twins?" "Neither yes nor no; but Ann yes and Mary no".) or refused altogether, because a mistaken presupposition is involved (example: "Have you stopped beating your wife?").
The reduction of cost by giving a single dose is significant, especially in developing countries without national health insurance.
