The phrase 'sole text' is technically correct and can be used in written English in certain contexts.
For example, one might write, "Before making the final decision, I reviewed the sole text of the contract." In this sentence, 'sole text' is referring to the entirety of the contract's text.
It also contains a long passage, the Patria Kōnstantinoupoleōs, on the origins of the city of Constantinople, which is the sole extant text of the original Historia.
The decisive event in the revival of skepticism occurred in 1562, after Agrippa's death, when the sole surviving text of Pyrrhonism, the most extreme form of ancient skepticism, was published in Latin translation.
But, it is not the sole sacred text that records this human longing.
Moreover, the sole reliance on text messages may have dampened the potential impact.
In my notes for this piece I reminded myself to make the point that Rebus's name is about the only anti-realistic touch in Rankin's work, the text's sole concession to admitting its own fictionality: not as unlikely as a Dubliner called Dedalus, but still pretty unlikely.
It came with a handwritten note in German that names a professor of Egyptology in Berlin, now deceased, and cited him calling the fragment "the sole example" of a text in which Jesus claims a wife.
It is in this context that he makes the sole reference in the text that "light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" (ibid., 488).
Russia was the sole vote against the text, while three countries — China, Angola and Venezuela — abstained.
Dr. Chan also visited a primary school – UNICEF is the sole provider of all text books and schools supplies for primary schools in Somalia.
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