It's a situation where you have to single out certain things and certain individuals.
"Fairness requires that the tax code not single out certain investors for less favorable treatment".
Therefore, the majority says, if Congress is going to single out certain states, it would need to revisit the formula.
He said he believed the dual citizenship issue was an effort by Dr. Abdullah to single out certain Pashtun ministers.
Tax reform advocates generally agree that a fair code shouldn't single out certain groups for favorable treatment at the expense of others.
This sounds great in theory, but it's hard to implement in a system where Congress likes to single out certain activities for special tax treatment.
Opponents of stronger gun-control laws have long said that new laws would arbitrarily single out certain weapons while ignoring issues like deficiencies in the mental health system.
But it has drawn criticism from tax policy analysts on both ends of the political spectrum, who say it is unwise to single out certain industries for favored treatment.
The commission said that the Habre government carried out 40,000 political killings and 200,000 cases of torture, and that Mr. Habre gave direct orders to single out certain groups or people.
Physicians have long known that large doses of single drugs — certain sedatives or anesthetics — can take a life painlessly, and with far less distress than the three-drug cocktail causes if the injection is botched.
