"We believe that they single- handedly decided that they wanted to have her die and wait so they would not have to take the after-care coverage".
Yet these executives, and others like them, were compensated as if they single-handedly controlled the fates of their companies.
The myth of the successful solo entrepreneur is that they single-handedly bring a business to life.
For instance, maybe they single-handedly spearheaded an important project or work on a side project they manage themselves.
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Women began flooding the labor force in the 1960s, and they single-handedly drove almost all increases in family income for middle-class workers from 1970 on, according to a White House report.
As homecare worker Della Lundell from Merced, Calif., puts it, they single-handedly do the work of an entire team of professionals - serving as physical therapist, dietician, nurse, respiratory therapist, transporter, translator and more - for about minimum wage.
And the brands that learn this early on are not only visionaries, but are also inventors of industries -- they single-handedly disrupt the way everyday consumers operate their lives.
Installing self-service checkouts in a move to reduce the cost of hiring actual humans and increase efficiency, they single-handedly turned an adult generation of amateur snatchers like me into sophisticated George Clooneys of the trolley queue.
They single-handedly beat the Indian army in the 80s, and they're sometimes credited for having "invented" modern-day suicide bombing (it is believed that they've carried out more suicide attacks than any other group in the world, including the killing of two heads of state).
With respect to transplantation, refugees are caught between a rock and a hard place: as recipients they have to single-handedly clear many hurdles on the arduous road to renal transplantation and as donors they are left unprotected against human organ trafficking.
