In the last national presidential election, many of our country's most distinguished scientists felt the singular need to enter the public arena and criticize the Bush administration for systematically choosing politics over science in various public policy settings where the norm had theretofore been scientific objectivity.
That urgency muted my usual fanciful impulses, which would have just distracted from that singular need.
Those same shots, shown over and over through those first, incredulous hours, producing a singular need to know why someone would do such a thing.
So primordially vital is our need to mate and raise to maturity our young that our entire society is and always has been defined by that very singular need.
On their Twitter account, @alabedbana, which now has more than 4,000 followers since they began tweeting on 24 September with the singular message: "I need peace," Bana and Fatemah offer snippets of life under the bombs, and images of the carnage in their city interspersed with videos of Bana drawing with her friends or learning English.
Every few years a cookbook author steps up to meet the needs of the singular cooking constituency; this book will serve best the ones who are already comfortable in the kitchen.
The creation of applications that customers not only realize they benefit from, but also are customized to their specific culture, socioeconomics and health needs must be the singular focus of any HIT app developer.
He had studied the islands with the singular zeal of a man who needs to understand.
Still, we need not assume that we can have this knowledge only if we can get somehow in a mysterious contact with the universal nature over and above the singulars; all we need is to learn how "to read" the singulars in our experience to discern the "common message", the universal nature, informing them all, uniformly, yet in their distinct singularity.
Since we abandoned the singular thou we have felt the need for some way of differentiating between you as a singular pronoun and you as a plural pronoun.
