How To Use One-man In A Sentence
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I left Chop Suey slightly bruised from getting in the way of an impromptu one-man mosh pit and grinning foolishly, which is the way all the best shows end.
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a one-man show
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Subsequent years spent back in South Africa gave him material for his one-man shows while he continued recording.
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He was a one-man operation and so it was easier for him to evade scrutiny.
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There's a power of difference between a monologue and a one-man show.
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Unfortunately, the bus driver decides to call a one-man strike at the Palazzo Venezia and we have to foot it from there.
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Variety has already called him a one-man bailout package for the entertainment industry for the way he defibrillated both the Tony and Emmy awards ceremonies this year.
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He seems to be running a one-man crusade against cigarette smoking.
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It has grown from a one-man business to a multi-million dollar business with close to $10 million in assets.
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One-man and two-man skin boats known as bidarkas, or kayaks, and large, open, skin boats were used.
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It's far from a one-man show.
Times, Sunday Times
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I clamber into the one-man hull, perch on the edge, and the instructor hands me the main sheet and the tiller extension.
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British agents developed a one-man midget submarine specifically to target enemy shipping anchored in ports or inshore waters.
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My strip is a low-tech, one-man operation, and I like it that way.
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Des, struggling to establish his new business as a one-man operation, gets to grips with new briefs - and not just the legal kind.
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This hard-bitten Philadelphia holster maker operates a classic one-man-shop specializing in extremely well-made and practically designed carry rigs.
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The one-man battering ram's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unlike the Navy's larger warships, the scout frigate CO's had little more than one-man staterooms to serve as office and sleeping quarters.
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The one-man battering ram 's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country.
Times, Sunday Times
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Bureaucracy gets pushed aside by so-called "adhocracy," executive power/one-man shows flourish, with institutional checks and balances flouted.
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The one-man battering ram's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country.
Times, Sunday Times
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But because I'm fundamentally weak and spineless, I find it awfully difficult to be similarly critical about the heroic efforts of a mere one-man band.
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Are there any limitations in being a one-man band?
The Sun
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Why else would a bus stop be built out other than to stop traffic flow while it piles up behind the buses, which are one-man operated?
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A one-man submarine which can plunge to the icy depths of the sea allowing aquanauts access to a previously unreachable marine world has arrived in Hull to make a valuable addition to the city's rich maritime heritage.
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River-buging is white-water rafting, only instead of a raft, you go down the rapids in a one-man inflatable armchair.
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It's also not a life of luxury: He operates a one-man window and eavestrough cleaning company six months of the year, working 12-hour days and living in a modestly furnished bachelor apartment.
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His one-man play is the story of the last day's work of the man who has catalogued and shelved them all.
Times, Sunday Times
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As well as the pub gigs, he's on the road a lot with a great, talented performer who does one-man theatre shows.
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The first one-man car arrived in York in 1924, complete with change-giving machine.
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This operation isn't meant to be a one-man band.
The Sun
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So many superlatives have already been applied to this tour-de force of a one-man show that it is hard to add anything new.
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As Obama seeks to “monarchize” American through the one-man rule of executive orders, he will run into a storm of flak that will make B-17 missions over World War II Germany look like milk runs in comparison.
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He essentially becomes a character in a one-man-show that features the reading of comix.
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On the whole, however, my one-man report on the grandparental role is positive on both sides.
Times, Sunday Times
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He organised his fourth one-man show at Calcutta in Artistry House in the year 1956.
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I saw him do his one-man show in London, which I loved.
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For a brief moment the one-man show had seemed so promising and he had dared to hope.
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In fact they were a one-man band.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps the ultimate in retromania is Girl Talk, a one-man band whose party tunes are composed entirely of dozens of painstakingly collaged samples from pop history.
When the Music Stopped
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His droll manner disguises, but does not hide, an awesome dexterity and emotional delivery of his one-man set.
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He established one-man rule in his country seven months ago.
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I recently learned that Billy has been putting on a one-man science show, which includes laying down on a bed of nails and having someone break a cinderblock on his chest with a sledgehammer.
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While in New York, he bumped into David Rubinoff, the playwright responsible for Stuck, a one-man show starring Sean Power that Zotter had seen and loved in Toronto.
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With the kind of face only a mother could love, Pettifer, this one-man show's twitching star, looks the part.
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He was a one-man crusade against injustice.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had his first one-man show in Düsseldorf that year.
Times, Sunday Times
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LCD is a one-man entertainment troupe that suggests a zonked universe where Brian Eno, Steve Albini and Giorgio Moroder are soul brothers.
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Joyce had little support and an even poorer supply of ball and staging a one-man comeback was a bridge too far for him.
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Jones' one-man show started as early as the seventh minute when he kicked Wales ahead after Scotland went over the top at a ruck.
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As his daughter lovingly describes him, he was in constant movement, a one-man service combination, who cared for his flock from the cradle to the grave, as mohel (circumciser) and Bar Mitzvah teacher, as celebrant at weddings, as a dayan granting divorce, as leader of prayers and as a judge in the ghetto.
Mischket Liebermann.
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He has held several one-man exhibitions of his paintings.
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Pound's one-man publicity campaign was not wholly selfish.
Times, Sunday Times
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Fuchs has achieved an international reputation, his work having been shown in one-man exhibitions in numerous countries.
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He waged a one-man crusade to see his then four-year-old daughter.
The Sun
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At no time did the games disintegrate into one-man shows of polo prowess.
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Richard took voluntary severance four years ago from his job as an engineer and since then has run his own one-man business from home.
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Future Tense Books is a wonderful publishing house in Portland, Oregon, helmed by the unstoppable one-man publishing crew of Kevin Sampsell.
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Mr Blinco was a founder member of the Coventry Reminiscence Theatre and he is currently working on a one-man show.
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He let slip on local radio last Friday that he'll be premiering a one-man show at this summer's art festival.
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He handed over the housekeeping every Friday night and kept some back to run his struggling, one-man business.
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By the time he died, he had produced, essentially single-handedly, seventeen immense volumes, marking him as the greatest one-man encyclopedist ever.
The Man Who Loved China: Summary and book reviews of The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester.
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In big companies and nationalised industries a growing number of redundant employees are asking to be retrained in the skills necessary for the one-man business.
Times, Sunday Times
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I am totally different from everyone else in the game because not only do I rap, I also produce, play musical instruments and sing which makes me literally, a one-man band.
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Isolation did not suit Gaddafi's his self-aggrandising, showman side, nor were his banknote-scattering, one-man African tours sufficient to feed his ego.
Gaddafi: a vicious, sinister despot driven out on tidal wave of hatred
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Besides automobiles, DTS has also tested an Olympic one-man luge, high-speed racing motorcycle, the University of Michigan solar team car and a land-speed record vehicle.
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Phil has now put together a one-man show that pays homage to his early heroes.
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He seems to be running a one-man crusade against cigarette smoking.
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Twain impersonator Richard Garey presents a one-man show in the Planters Barn Theater Monday-Saturday, May 29-Sept. 7 (plus sporadic performances in May); $16 adults; $14, children. 573-231-0021; heritagestage. com
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Meanwhile John Lawer insists he won't be giving up on his epic adventure or his one-man campaign against three-wheel discrimination.
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Following the complaint made against real Madrid for tapping-up the cheating acquitted date-rapist Ronaldo, one-man strop factory Ferguson has decided to sue Gordon Strachan for “Being Scottish, a football manager and a mardy bugger.”
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Rather, he is ensuring that the principle of one-man-one-vote holds good, even if it comes down to the narrowest of margins.
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The premise of the film sounds like that of a particularly macabre Choose Your Own Adventure story -- an American Average Joe is trapped in a coffin somewhere in the Iraqi desert with nothing but a cell phone, a Zippo, and his cajones -- but with killer timing, buckets of low-fi ingenuity, and a stunning one-man show from Reynolds, Cortés is able to craft a riveting bonafide action movie.
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How about a movie a lovie about a guy who competes in the one-man bobsled event, but just can never win?
FRIDAY FREE FOR ALL: THE PUMMEL HORSE
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He is today, veritably, a one-man-Open University on Mahatma Gandhi.
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Their run established a new world and national record as part of Windermere Records Week which saw high-speed watercraft - from one-man hydroplanes to offshore Formula 1 powerboats - take to the water.
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Meanwhile John Lawer insists he won't be giving up on his epic adventure or his one-man campaign against three-wheel discrimination.
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The payload, perched on the nose cone of the massive rocket, was a one-man exploration vessel, Ranger 3.
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The sponge is a one-man stimulus package, not just commercially but morally.
SpongeBob's Golden Dream
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Thomas Kitts writes about Ray Davies's one-man show, which was originally called 20th Century Man, before being retitled Storyteller.
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So, expect a lot of one-man plays and piano recitals.
Times, Sunday Times
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No great loss; Rolls' current one-man show is a dazzling compendium of pieces chock-full of barbed wit and sharp social insight.
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Dance bands have varied from the medieval one-man band of pipe and tabor to the small symphony orchestras of Johann Strauss.
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He's a one-man morality play.
Times, Sunday Times
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He had decided to go to the theatre instead, to watch a one-man show.
Times, Sunday Times
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But with Martin ailing and the rest of his teammates flailing, he was virtually a one-man show and ran out of gas in the fourth quarter, failing to make a basket.
USATODAY.com
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After making my first tuition payment last week, I'm thinking of launching a one-man crusade against the atrociously high cost of higher education today.
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He says Africa needs to move beyond the days of one-man rule, and wants Ghana to be seen as a model.
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Some one-man bands march that way through the business of the church because they feel it protects their position.
Christianity Today
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He was a one-man crusade against injustice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two shows, both alike in style, are bookending the coming week at Epsom Playhouse, starting with a one-man show and ending with a solo female play.
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The power is like a charging, one-manned train, where Mr. Koontz is the driver and the reader is the only passenger, where he or she will remain belted into the sea, reading paragraphs and turning pages, until the very last, collapsing in an exhausted heap; then rising after recuperation, hoping for a sequel.
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Like a great one-man show, Rux channels the multi-hued flavors of the diaspora, filtering his fiercely proud and thoughtful verses through African juju, avant-jazz and hip-hop.
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Regulations for a one-man commission to investigate the unauthorised issuing of a permit for the import of cupric arsenite to South Africa were gazetted on Friday.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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If the ball can successfully escape the double-team, the attackers have a one-man advantage at the other end of the court when the ball is moved up-court quickly.
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A fine pianist and singularly persuasive interpreter of his own music, Head was famous for his one-man recitals of his vocal music.
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He was right: as the ultimate power broker, he became a one-man replacement for the crumbling studio system.
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Not that it was a one-man show, far from it.
The Sun
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a tendency to turn from collegial to one-man management
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But he is a one-man band, constantly at odds with a party he thinks he should be leading.
The Sun
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Quesada tells of a near 3 hour meeting in which Branagh basically threw down a one-man show of the entire flick, and touches briefly on the as-of-yet-uncast Odin character:
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He runs the business as a one-man band .
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British agents developed a one-man midget submarine specifically to target enemy shipping anchored in ports or inshore waters.
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From its humble beginnings in New Berlin, the label approaches it seventh birthday no longer a struggling one-man show, but as a music community with a lot of local love and a growing national reach.
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It has grown from a one-man business to a multi-million dollar business with close to $10 million in assets.
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I saw him do his one-man show in London, which I loved.
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For a one-man plumbing operation, they are just not interested.
Times, Sunday Times
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The unit which he began as a one-man band now has an international reputation and employs 180 people.
Times, Sunday Times
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He waged a one-man crusade to see his then four-year-old daughter.
The Sun
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He may be a wash-out as an MLA, but all by himself, he's served as a one-man make-work project for northern lawyers.
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The idea of this being a one-man show is to highlight his true isolation.
Times, Sunday Times
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But in "Tynan" - a one-man show running at Studio through Feb. 6 - Goodwin plays an ostentatious genius and social whirlwind who happened to be the grenade-lobber of modern theater criticism.
A challenging role for a complex thespian
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But the company that had actually made and sold the flag was a one-man operation with no resources.
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He established one-man rule in his country seven months ago.
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Following his second one-man show in Paris in 1883, Monet began to be acknowledged as the foremost landscape painter of his day.
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One corporate detective says most of the big firms stay well within the law but there are a host of smaller one-man bands who will bend the rules.
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But this is not a one-man show.
The Sun
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He followed with his one-man duet where he sang both soprano and tenor.
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Fortunately, he tempers that seriousness with the one-man show's greatest asset - humour - and shows that the best way to get through life is to learn to laugh at yourself.
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It's a truly inventive one-man show, that combines physical theatre, comedy, original music and even a car chase.
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We were a one-man army on a one-man mission; causing heartache and grief to the ones we loved.
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He held several critically acclaimed one-man exhibitions in the 1820s.
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This writer's contempt for the sensitive sap alone on a stool with his nylon-stringed guitar is matched only by his admiration for the one-man band-similar, but so much cooler.
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The best are the one-man bands who excel at all the things the large corporate consultancies pretend to.
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A veteran of one-man shows, he has always alternated between being a painter and a sculptor and a poet.
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What was once a one-man operation now has four employees and several sub-contractors.
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Aside from the dozen global players, these are mostly small firms or one-man bands.
Times, Sunday Times
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Coun Campbell said: ‘I take it very hurtfully that I am operating only as a one-man or two-man parish council and that I am not acting in the best interests of the village.’
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The one-man battering ram 's capacity to draw defenders and unleash others is a fulcrum for club and country.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a one-man show in the tiniest kitchen imaginable.
Beirut
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He has been a one-man band too long.
Times, Sunday Times
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That led Beck to create and act in an elaborate one-man show, with a small orchestra, video, and the obligatory large black woman singer, one performance of which was simulcast and "rebroadcast" several times to movie theatres around the country last Christmas, which leads to this year, when Beck staged
The Rude Pundit
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As for the government, this dumbo claims that it's democratic, but as you know, it is a one-man sectarian dictatorship.
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He was a one-man crusade against injustice.
Times, Sunday Times
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He now fronts his own one-man show and has made remarkable inroads into the local scene since November.
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Up to Christmas he seems to have been heaped with praise for his one-man campaign to keep the team in the Premiership.
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Due to the domain and the range of G being disjunctive sets, the relation G has the following formal features: it is irreflexive, asymmetric, and transitive; moreover, G is many-one, but not one-many.
Slices of Matisse
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It's not easy if you are a one-man band.
Times, Sunday Times
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I currently work in a business that deals with the whole business spectrum from giant multinationals to one-man bands.
Times, Sunday Times
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His triumph last night came with an astonishing injection of pace on the last lap that turned the race into a one-man show.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Birch, a self-employed upholsterer, was described by relatives as ‘a one-man party who thrived on fun and enjoyment and always had a joke to tell, making everyone around him feel good’.
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David Downey, the one-man owner, is terrific and has every kind of audiovisual equipment imaginable.
Replace or resurface a crumbling driveway?
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The director and co-founder of SITE, Rita Katz, noted the volume of Irhabi’s posts, many of them “very time-consuming uploads,” and the numerous requests he fielded from the al-Ansar community as evidence that “he could not have been a one-man operation.”
Jihad 2.0
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After spending 10 years dreaming of staging a one-man exhibition in London, self-taught artist Michael Forbes could hardly have imagined how his dearest wish would come true.
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Paul Webb's one-man play has two clear aims: to recapture the lost musical world of Ivor Novello and to remind us of the post-war witch-hunt against theatrical homosexuals.
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37-year-old Hughes had audiences queuing around the block for returns when he staged his first one-man show, Map, at the Traverse in 2002.
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So, expect a lot of one-man plays and piano recitals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The strain shows in the vital areas of structure and, fatally for a one-man show, performance.
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Erik Friedlander brings an amazingly rich one-man show to the table, and has won hefty chunk of acclaim from the likes of the previously posted Clogs (plays cello on their album Stick Music), John Vanderslice (Friedlander appears all over Pixel Revolt), and John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats.
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The room is an almost excessively rich joy to the eye, as well as being a sort of one-man cabbalistic text.
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The company is really a one-man band.
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The luge has been a Winter Olympic event for years, whereby competitors lie on a small, flat one-man sleigh not much bigger than a tea-tray, and speed downhill on icy bobsleigh runs.
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I am a one-man business offering a valuable service in a rural area.
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He waged a one-man crusade to see his then four-year-old daughter.
The Sun
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His one-man productions have been called "the kind of indisputably riotous show that sets off regular explosions of laughter" (Miami Herald).
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The information blackout is supposed to prevent us and the rest of the world from watching the dictator consolidate his one-man rule for the long term.
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His work was included in numerous exhibitions, including one-man shows, and he became a well-known figure in the art world, but he fell seriously ill in 1906-a result of his debauched life - and stopped painting.
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It is not the one-man back room of a pub operation that characterises many comedy clubs.
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A veteran of one-man shows, he has always alternated between being a painter and a sculptor and a poet.
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So, expect a lot of one-man plays and piano recitals.
Times, Sunday Times
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In big companies and nationalised industries a growing number of redundant employees are asking to be retrained in the skills necessary for the one-man business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because he is nothing less than a one-man popular culture machine.
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His acting is so total that he totals every ordinary part; only his own one-man squibs and diatribes, envenomed caricatures, and scurrilous jibes can contain his rant.
