There was no White House debate about whether the bomb should be dropped, no singular decision to use it, no suggestion that it was an alternative to invasion.
And in his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in Charlotte, President Obama made this singular decision, faced by voters, the crucial theme of his speech: "When all is said and done, when you pick up that ballot to vote.
Conservation tools have historically been oriented toward optimization for singular decision-makers.
Shen Buhai echoes Shen Dao: "He who is a singular decision-maker can become the sovereign of All under Heaven" (Creel 1974: 380, translation modified).
Stories about donation are often told as one hero making a singular decision to register as a donor; in truth, they come from finely coordinated teams of people.
"The ruling by the Regional Court of Cologne represents a singular decision which deviates from the broad majority of legal opinions on circumcision.
Decision-making was not a singular decision, but rather involved many different steps.
(see Table 1).> Decision-making was not a singular decision about one method of artificial nutrition, but rather a process of problem-solving for patients who often had complex symptomatology and multiple co-morbidities.
Considering different interventions and their associated risks, burdens and benefits was not a singular decision but rather an on-going process as the patient's condition changed and dependent upon their circumstances.
A singular challenge with decision making in the Anthropocene is that many of the most important challenges we face are "wicked" problems.
