But her long nails and close-set eyes, both quizzical and confrontational, spoke of the toughness of someone singularly capable of protecting herself.
It's the GRU that has learned how to weaponise the tech platforms that we use every day and that underpin our news and information systems in ways we have singularly failed to protect.
And yet, throughout it all, bar one moment shortly before her death when she hit rock bottom, Jacqueline's mother remained singularly focused on protecting her children and ensuring that every day they understood her profound love for them and the joy they gave her.
While he is the GOP's most generous donor he spent an estimated $150 million on Republican campaigns in 2012 alone his political agenda has been singularly focused on protecting his gambling interests and pushing a hardline, pro-Israel foreign policy.
"But we spend huge amounts of money protecting species and biodiversity, so why should it be that the one thing that makes us singularly human shouldn't be similarly nourished and protected?" What's more, languages are conduits of human heritage.
A president's use of the pardon power to protect himself is singularly reprehensible.
It seems only logical to doubt the business acumen of people who have been singularly inept when it comes to protecting their interests in the world of digital distribution.
"Officers assigned to protect public officials must make singularly swift, on the spot, decisions whether the safety of the person they are guarding is in jeopardy," she wrote.
Officers assigned to protect public officials must make singularly swift, on the spot, decisions whether the safety of the person they are guarding is in jeopardy.
A government's first duty is to protect its people – this government is singularly failing to do so.
As long ago as 1965, the International Labor Organization, a branch of the United Nations, saw an "urgent need" to protect domestic workers, whom it called "singularly subject to exploitation".
