He had no part at all in the maneuvers that produced the first coalition government and was powerless when the Conservatives, with the sole exception of Sir William Maxwell Aitken (soon Lord Beaverbrook), insisted on his being demoted from the Admiralty to the duchy of Lancaster.
The Primary Curriculum Review, by contrast, was commissioned and paid for by the government and is the sole work of a serial government-report writer, Sir Jim Rose.
"He was a true friend and a great man," said Everton Weekes, the sole survivor of the famous "Three Ws" with Sir Frank Worrell having died in 1967.
The country's first foreign minister, Sir Zafarullah Khan, and the nation's sole Noble Prize laureate, Dr. Abdul Salam, both belonged to the Ahmadiyya community.
Jason Kenny won gold and silver in the men's sprint at Beijing and is GB's sole permitted entrant in the match sprint, edging out Sir Chris Hoy.
Only rarely are individual ministers disavowed by their colleagues and forced to accept sole responsibility for their policy initiatives; such was the case with Sir Samuel Hoare's resignation in 1935 over his proposed appeasement of Fascist Italy.
In April Whitbread-winner John Guy's A Daughter's Love (Fourth Estate) promises to "break open a secret" about Sir Thomas More by focusing on his daughter Margaret, his sole intermediary when he was imprisoned in the Tower for treason.
After the death of his colleague Sir John Barbirolli in 1970, Boult was seen as "the sole survivor of a great generation" and a living link with Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Holst.
In a filmed interview with the biographer of Sir William Stephenson, the spymaster code-named "Intrepid," Coward made his sole public statement about his wartime espionage work.
The sole unmarried PM of the past century and only the fourth of all time, Sir Edward served at No 10 from 1970 to 1974.
