The governor has also enjoyed political support from Hollywood: his sole out-of-state fund-raiser as governor was held at the Los Angeles home of an HBO executive.
StrikeForce, an Edison, N.J., maker of authentication technology, claimed that it was the "sole patent holder for out-of-band authentication".
Where it gets troubling is when you haven't slept for three days because of an inability to trace the roots of a loose bit of 19th century regional French slang that some academic cited in a piece about the rubber factory that made the French army's boot soles out of recycled nitrate film prints from the 1910s.
People who point to state budget cuts as the sole reason why tuitions are out-of-control may be confusing correlation with causation.
Whether or not prostate cancer was the sole reason for his dropping out of the race, there is no question about the difficult choices Mr. Giuliani confronted.
Mr. Hijab rejected that assessment, saying that replacing Mr. Assad was the sole way out of the uprising, which started as a peaceful protest movement in March 2011.
This very stairwell was the sole route out of the building, running from the top to the bottom of the south tower.
Several fighters, who were meeting in the next room as the jet screamed overhead — and the sole bomblet, out of more than 100, hit their building — chuckled at their near miss.
By the time of "The Divorcée" (which earned Shearer her sole Oscar out of six nominations) and "A Free Soul," she had left her innocence behind and become MGM's embodiment of the sophisticated society woman in Prohibition-era New York.
At the request of The New York Times, the Foundation Center identified 3,935 foundations that reported a financial institution as their sole trustee, out of a total of more than 77,000 foundations in its database.
