The president not only invited his fellow citizens to give thanks for "singular deliverances and blessings" but also to ask forgiveness for the sins that had led to deaths "in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield".
His classmates and townsfolk will now remember him for this singular moment, but also, thanks to the miracle of youtube, every gimlet-eyed college administrator, every suspicious prospective father-in-law, every skeptical potential employer, every miserly bank loan officer, and every conscientious State Department Terrorist Watch List administrator will see him coming, and not face first.
He had held that the (material) intellect does not know singulars through universal species, but thanks to the intentional representation of a given singular present in the elementary thought and accessible to the intellect only at the moment of the active union of a single individual man with the material and active intellects in the soul.
Early-15th-century Florence was the center of artistic competition, thanks to a singular confluence of talent, ambition and money.
Now, thanks to Janny Scott's remarkable "A Singular Woman," absence has become presence.
Most years, New York is able to surmount the news cycle's seasonal lull, thanks to the city's singular amalgam of ambition, clannish rivalries and creaking infrastructure.
In fact it's ludicrous to think that a business which has attracted millions of fans thanks to a founder's singular vision should suddenly start taking their orders from those fans.
More recently, however, thanks in large part to her singular efforts to avert the limelight, the family name has faded from view.
The estimation of the measurement noise is achieved thanks to the transformation of the original system into a singular form where the measurement noise makes part of the augmented state.
That may be about to change, thanks to a new force of eastern Syrian rebels with a singular focus on the Islamic State and, local sources say, quiet backing from the United States.
