By 1910, Martha was the sole survivor, an extraordinary fate for a bird whose ancestors had, in Audubon's words, sounded — from a distance!
The president and the Republican and Democratic House and Senate leaders seem to believe that voters bestowed on them the role of sole determiners of the fate of the citizenry.
By 1910, Martha was the sole survivor, an extraordinary fate for a bird whose ancestors had, in Audubon's words, sounded from a distance!—like "a hard gale at sea, passing through the rigging of a close-reefed vessel".
Even if we accepted that Sam's performance wasn't up to par and that that was the sole reason for his fate, there is nothing beyond the hollow words of NFL officials to suggest that if he were "good enough" he'd be playing -- and much to suggest otherwise.
The leaders have the sole authority to determine the fate of legislation, the amount of state money that lawmakers receive for their districts, the type of committee assignments they get and even the size of their paychecks.
Although he has insisted that his comments have been consistent and that his sole concern is for the fate of Elian, the vice president has been criticized by Republicans and Democrats alike for appearing to distance himself from the administration in hopes of winning over Cuban-American voters who want the boy to remain in the United States.
But at least as important is the less flattering interpretation: that the most powerful woman in Europe (if not the world) shied away from taking sole responsibility for Greece's fate because sharing it out among as many players as possible was a way of protecting herself from any blame.
Such measures must not be the subject of bargains, such as trading the ratification of the constitutional document for strengthening the role of the army as the guardian of legitimacy, and as the sole body responsible for the fate of the country and its budget.
But perhaps its most resonant element was the fate of Ben Duane Joness), the sole survivor of a zombie siege on a country house.
The process of modernization in the Muslim world has been associated with the growing role of the state and its bureaucracy as the chief, then eventually, sole actor and controller of the fates of Muslim societies.
