How To Use Single-handed In A Sentence

Meanwhile, Mr. Christie is taking the same tact in what he described as a "passionate" relationship with Mr. Sweeney, who has the power to single-handedly block bills. Christie, Sweeney in Standoff Over Funds
Her life is a constant juggling act, coping with career, family, and home life single-handed.
Commenting on the honour, he said: ‘This has not been done single-handed.’
Mr Butler rowed single-handed across the Atlantic in 2001.
Because she vanquishes such devitalizing influences single-handedly, however, this heroine's 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_

But then a bouncer single-handedly pushes them all back, tipping the crowd three steps down the steps. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
Secondly, single-handed practices were capable of sophisticated asthma care, provided they were adequately resourced.
With dizzying speed, the tiny label almost single-handedly ignited the hip-hop revolution that made rap a household word.
Has the world's most pugnacious advocate for the world's poor, a man who almost single-handedly brought the appalling images of famine-struck Africa into the front rooms of millions of Britons, finally gone too far?
I'm blessed if I'm going to do cook an 'stooard's work single-handed, an' you lazy rascallion a caulkin 'all over the ship! The Island Treasure
She faces the herculean task of bringing up four children single-handedly.
While the fundamental risk remained Global Thermonuclear War prosecuted by one or both of the only nation-states capable of accomplishing such a civilization-threatening feat single-handedly or 'cooperatively', the contributing risks represented by escalation and alliances opened a larger number of paths from the status quo to the unthinkable outcome and some of those paths had distinctly lower thresholds standing between origin and outcome. The Speculist: Doomsday Clock Speculist Challenge
He single-handedly took sailing from a gentle pastime into an athletic sport.
No one like Rambo is going to help Americans discover the fate of missing soldiers in Southeast Asia and popular movies portraying such single-handed heroics are a disservice to the country, according to a former prisoner of war. Heroes or Villains?
Yet it's hard to think of anyone who has pursued power with such relentless single-handedness.
She still generates enormous force, but what is most attractive about her game is the subtly of stroke, particularly that classical single-handed backhand.
The latter, after single-handedly blowing away Montrealers on this year's rather sour Electroclash tour, will no doubt prove yet again that she's more than just a sassy-talking sexpot - she's truly a vocal force to be reckoned with.
Even the power smirk, which we haven't seen much of since he was - unfairly - blamed for single-handedly jeopardising Labour's election chances with his mingy Budget, is back.
A keen sailor, he single-handedly built a 50 foot glass fibre trimaran over seven years, and spent many happy years sailing it in the Channel and the Mediterranean.
A Leeds woman who single-handedly tackled an armed robber and prevented a raid on a building society was yesterday honoured for her bravery by the Home Secretary.
The authors said concern about single-handed doctors had long been expressed but ‘we have found no evidence in this study that single-handed general practitioners are under-performing clinically’.
The White Stripes cannot single-handedly satiate one man's desire for primal garage rock.
It's important that the sling is easy to put on single-handed, and that your baby gets adequate support.
The knife and fork are increasingly going their separate ways as more and more diners opt for single-handed eating.
And the occasional paraplegic yachtie, sailing single-handed across oceans, is simply superhuman. Times, Sunday Times
And let's not forget he has a single-handed backhand. Times, Sunday Times
An unhinged American general single-handedly launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
And since the late 1990s, she seems to have been pursuing a single-handed crusade to save the diva from extinction.
While my life was being played out in anonymous misery in Peckham, he was the cricketing rebel who dared to stick two fingers up to Lord's while single-handedly dismantling the Aussies, a man who never played safe or kept one eye on his averages, whose flaws were part of his appeal – who else could get away with that dodgy moustache and dodgier mullet? TV review - Botham: The Legend of '81 and Regional TV: Life Through a Local Lens
Her own mother, bringing two children up single-handed after the war after her second husband was killed in the fighting, had a ‘rotten, rough time’.
He handed in several references praising her as a mother and a person, and said she had been taking medication since last summer for depression caused by the strain of bringing up her children single-handed.
Later, Anni, a Lapp widow, who works a reindeer farm single-handed on the shores of a lake, finds the concussed Russian and drags him back to her hovel and nurses him to health.
Born and reared among the lowly, a stranger to wealth and luxury, compelled to grapple single-handed with the flintiest hardships of life, from tender youth to sturdy manhood, he grew strong in the manly and heroic qualities demanded by the great mission to which he was called by the votes of his countrymen. Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
Our sergeant led our platoon across Crete displaying great bravery and single-handedly taking out German machine-gun positions.
Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons. Chapter 8
The 16-year-old was told on his arrival that despite being the youngest person to sail the Atlantic single-handed, he would have to work hard to catch up on school work.
She campaigned single-handedly against the closure during the 1970s of the steamie in the basement of the pool building.
But what if it comes to confront the difficulties one cannot break through single-handed?
By the accumulation of more and more silver, they effectively protected their family's property and, single-handedly remonetized the white metal.
What is worse about Henry's story is that he raised his three sons virtually single-handed after his wife deserted them.
Almost single-handedly Karl Barth retrieved dogmatics for the mainstream of academic theology after its marginalization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
You can keep your pouty J-pop idols and bubbleheaded bridge crew: we have Laurette Spang, Maren Jensen, and Anne Lockhart, any one of whom could destroy the entire Zentradi fleet single-handedly by batting her eyelashes. Archive 2009-06-01
This resulted in the expectation, by some residents and stakeholders, that capital of culture [status] would single-handedly redress acute long-term inequalities between Liverpool and other UK cities, from unemployment to low income and poor health. Culture | guardian.co.uk
The car's sectioned panels can be removed single-handed to assist with oil checks, a feature unique for this class of car.
He was shot as he made a misguided attempt to stop the robbers single-handed.
The former Thackley player, who describes himself as ‘a partnership-breaker’, almost single-handedly bowled out Mills with his gentle inswingers.
McLaren - having first joined forces with the Surrey-based outfit as an eleven-year-old karter all the way back in 1996, and having to all intents and purposes made the team his own since graduating to the grand prix grid three years ago - he will need to reciprocate Button's open approach rather than single-handedly focussing upon personal glory. Crash.Net Motorsports Newsfeed
I refer, of course, to Ellen MacArthur, the 24 year-old who has sailed single-handedly round the world, becoming in the process the youngest woman to circumnavigate the globe on her tod.
No-one had been so consistently maniacal throughout the entire tournament or spilt more blood as he single-handedly destroyed the flower of Britain's youth.
Inspired by an original single-handed implement designed for Lord Nelson, it cuts easily yet is completely safe as a fork.
Just in case the trotty girl debagged him single-handed. British National Party: Helping Them Counter Misinformation
He recorded their encounters, including one in which she apparently fought off a street gang single-handedly. Times, Sunday Times
The code will recommend practices such as a maximum breaking strain of line, hook size of no more than 14, and the use of a single-handed rod.
Collor nurtured the idea that he was a superman, who single-handedly could resolve Brazil's crisis.
George Hudson was the far-sighted entrepreneur who single-handedly transformed York into a thriving, modern city.
Jaffier could readily perceive how large were the pecuniary interests of Carreras 'heir in the complete demolition of the Spaniard's power, but such single-handed effectiveness had a supermasculine voltage about it, despite Bedient's laughing explanations. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel
Almost single-handedly, he reconnected with the positive and idealistic instincts of middle-class Americans.
He can take on entire armies of demon immortals single-handedly, but seems incapable of walking without falling on his face, or operating a hammer without slamming it onto his thumb.
Most notable of all, he has, almost single-handed, tamed the once all-powerful military and established civilian supremacy in the government.
Using the block is harder than using a hammer-driven swage, but is the only way he can shape the iron single-handedly. The Magic Engineer
The men advance towards her and she single-handedly knocks all of them to the ground escaping without a scratch.
He has pulled off an extraordinary feat in completing the voyage single-handedly.
She takes on a roomful of dark-suited gangsters single-handed with only a samurai sword.
Reporters and staff were mesmerized as the one-time Illinois Senator and notorious 'doper' went into the details of describing his single-handed capture of a famous alien known to millions as simply E.T. Obama described an action that supposedly occurred in 2002 when he was living in Chicago. TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
He invented the word "Jesuitical", in his Provincial Letters, and in those letters single-handedly created the myth of the crafty Jesuit. California Literary Review
Sir Francis Chichester was the first person to make a single-handed voyage round the world.
He was shot as he made a misguided attempt to stop the robbers single-handed.
In fact, I can single-handedly overhaul our educational system for free.
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.
Out of the current five yacht races that circumnavigate the globe, only Around Alone and the non-stop Vendee Globe are single-handed.
Rolly single-handedly attempted to apprehend the youths, put out the fire and administer first aid to barman Wheeler.
Disturbed by the noise, he scared off the invaders single-handed armed with a musket and then proceeded to defuse the explosives.
She brought three children up single-handedly, often at great personal sacrifice .
Carrying it across the room, he opened the window single-handed (easier said then done).
Number 14 (Up Country, 2002, etc.) from the master of the parboiled potboiler, in which an intrepid cop single-handedly staves off Armageddon. Wild Fire by Nelson DeMille: Book summary
The boy from Tunapuna had fearlessly and single-handedly faced and surmounted all obstacles and carved a niche market from scratch.
The round-the-world races are single-handed. Times, Sunday Times
He was shot as he made a misguided attempt to stop the robbers single-handed.
(I'd almost bet $100 that no diner can successfully, and single-handedly, sink the ice cream dessert billed as "titanic," built from flourless chocolate cake, five scoops of ice cream, roasted pineapple, cookies and whipped cream.) Tom Sietsema on Carmine's: Penn Quarter Italian restaurant thinks big -- in many ways
At the same time it would be apt to remember and raise a glass to previous world-rounders who have achieved the same single-handed feat, albeit slower, without the daily security of satellite navigation systems.
They single-handedly led the resurgence of our National Pastime and they did so by awing us with their superhuman strength. Adam Flomenbaum: The Nude Athlete
In his pomp, Mr. Marchesi, the father of nuova cucina, single-handedly dragged Italian cooking out of the humble trattoria and into a high-end restaurant near you. Marchesi, on Food and Life
Her radical approach to community relations led to the implementation of a stable unity government in Zimbabwe, and she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her single-handed resolution of the conflict in Sudan. Obituary - Jade Goody 1981-2009
Brother Kevin slammed a barely believable 113 runs off 63 balls, the fastest century in a World Cup, to win the England game almost single-handed. Ireland, the Cup's Other Winners
The prince wearily rose, the burden of almost single-handedly waging a war against shadows weighing him down.
Support is needed for audit, particularly for single-handed and small practices.
I built this house single-handedly
Matthew Cheney has written this up faster than I can type the title his boundless enthusiasm for V.'s new collection, Secret Life, will single-handedly turn it into critical success. DVD releases
The 23-year-old from San Diego, California, has struggled to hit those heights since, but her single-handed backhand is regarded among her peers as one of the best in women's tennis.
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He thus single-handedly refutes the Platonic theory of evil as ignorance of the good.
During her 'gap year', as she described it, she found time to row single-handed around the world backwards, and also carried out the first solo trek by a woman to both Poles, in doing so beating Sir Ranulph Fiennes 'long-standing speed record. Obituary - Jade Goody 1981-2009
Not only is he a dab hand at changing a spare tyre, he can also push-start a 19-tonne articulated truck single-handedly.
Her almost single-handed campaign to remind Penang's 1.2 million dwellers of their unique architectural heritage has resulted in her fascinating book ‘Streets of George Town’.
She once single-handedly convinced some French revolutionaries to leave her father on the throne.
- I can't recall a drearier 59 minutes since I last had to drag my canoe single-handed through the brush to the banks of Lake Titicaca. A Fieldsian Footnote
She is portrayed as a single-handed crusader in the fight against drugs.
Then for two or three years he worked as a "hatter" (i.e., single-handed) in various tin-mining districts of the New England district. The Call Of The South 1908
The defining image of the movie showed actor Gary Lewis struggling under the weight of his beloved ma's coffin which he tries to carry single-handed from the hearse to the grave.
Sometimes I would feel immensely powerful, feel that I, single-handedly, might change the course of Woolf scholarship.
Meanwhile, the Lib Dems will take single-handed control of the council's all-powerful executive after Labour and Tories rejected a power-sharing offer.
She is portrayed as a single-handed crusader in the fight against drugs.
The attempt by a Yorkshire-based soldier to fly an autogyro single-handed from England to Australia has failed.
How can he possibly fend for himself at all, let alone manage quite literally single-handed for 30 years?
Even more encouraging is that he has shown the ability to single-handedly steal a game.
The attempt on the single-handed record could be a two-trimaran race.
He had single-handedly turned the Swan from a down-at-heel spit and gob saloon to a down-at-heel success.
She rejects him after he cannot get into the army, but when she is kidnapped along with his train, he single-handedly attempts to get the train back.
But he went among them single-handed, his bearing being a delicious composite of humility, familiarity, sang-froid, and insolence. The Son of the Wolf
He recorded their encounters, including one in which she apparently fought off a street gang single-handedly. Times, Sunday Times
Christine Rankin alone will not be able to single-handedly stem the tide of political correctness at the Families Commission.
Samson routinely got into fights, and once killed 1000 Philistines single-handedly and then gloated over it, showing no remorse.
Pecos Bill was the hero of American cowboys . Bill almost single-handedly tamed the rough wilderness in the American Southwest. He was so tough he used a rattlesnake for a lasso to rope in his cattle.
Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed, suckling her baby at the same time.
I left with no doubt in my mind at all that this was a man who, single-handed, changed the course of popular music forever.
A wiry, slight man though a real "shellback," one who had been steeped in and saturated with every sea, was "giving the sea best," nerve-shaken, so he said -- and yet sailing a cutter with but 3 or 4 inches of free board "single-handed. Confessions of a Beachcomber
Not content with discharging single-handed his heavy bursarial duties he undertook to compile a register of all members of the College since its foundation.
We were comprehensively beaten at Anfield where Titti Camra destroyed us nearly single-handed but the home game was another matter.
And the youngster nearly ensured Costa Rica's qualification single-handedly on 89 minutes when he rounded Recbar in the Turkish goal only to fire high and wide.
Yet the hardness was there, and it was what enabled him to run his ketch single-handed and to wring a livelihood out of the fighting Solomons. Chapter 8
He's single-handedly responsible for tens of thousands of acres being set aside to preserve kudu, crucial trails connecting habitats, and an ancient trade route essential to local livelihoods.
They proudly told of how they had single-handedly raised money through cake sales, approaching businesses, holding raffles and selling chocolates.
She has, almost single-handedly, realigned British politics.
They single-handedly did more to embitter me toward opposing fans than anyone else in any sport, including Flyers fans and Duke fans.
He almost single-handedly brokered a peace deal with secessionist rebels in Chechnya last fall, thereby ending an inordinately bloody war.
Ian Black, a young man from up North, had single-handedly disarmed the bomb.
I am hopeful that China will emerge as a partner to the U.S. on such issues as terrorism, disaster relief, and nation-building, but we should be aware that as we have made economic choices to pursue these objectives in an almost single-handed fashion, we now find our economy exposed to a trading partner whose interests may differ from ours. Letters to the Editor
Single-handed he did his best to prevent the wholesale destruction of the big houses in Spital Square.
He has had plenty of time to prepare it and has won two races in it, including the Transat, the gruelling 2,800-mile single-handed transatlantic race, during the summer.
A plea for farming and farming corporations: Showing the profit of farming over trade, and the best place for carrying it on, for the attainment of a competence, ... or copartnership over single-handed farming by A. OpEdNews - Quicklink: An Open Letter to Hillary Clinton from a Wellesley Alumna
They could not believe that any sane man would take on a multinational corporation almost single-handed, let alone succeed?
Martin drilled three 3-pointers, almost single-handedly keeping his team close for the first three quarters. USATODAY.com
This, she said, will not be done single-handedly but in collaboration with the other board members.
She has many nautical achievements to her credit, including single-handedly circumnavigating Ireland.
It was the single-handed effort of this man which took Kathaprasangam, which once was a prominent part of the temple festival itinerary, to the mainstream of Kerala culture.
Need I remind you, sir, who it was that single-handedly captured—alive, I might add—the only specimen of Malus cerebrum comedo in the history of monstrumology? The Curse of the Wendigo
And let's not forget he has a single-handed backhand. Times, Sunday Times
She became the first woman to sail single-handed the wrong way round the world, against prevailing winds and currents. Times, Sunday Times
But he was offered a job back at his old firm and gradually learnt how to use adaptive technologies such as single-handed keyboards, tracking balls and IBM's voice-recognition software.
He almost single-handedly captured two pillboxes on the Mont Fleury Battery and took more than 20 prisoners.
Her murder is a political thunderbolt that, if correctly harnessed, could single-handedly save the pro-euro cause.
He has single-handedly kept Salford afloat, doing his level best alongside the big guns.
There's no single-handed solving of unsolvable murders these days - and no beautiful, blonde dames in distress to be rescued, as in Philip Marlowe's day.
Today they would more likely be termed "hypomania," a fair diagnosis for any individual who manages single-handedly to found a library, fire company, police force, hospital, university, insurance company, sanitation department and militia. Archive 2006-01-01
It single-handedly brought body-con back. Times, Sunday Times
And let's not forget he has a single-handed backhand. Times, Sunday Times
The military is not in a position single-handedly to either maintain highly qualified cadres or to retain real professionals within its ranks.
Throughout his career he had excoriated Walter Scott (even holding him almost single-handedly responsible for the Civil War), but now he was in the same boat as his bête noire.
Whether he's using his digital kung-fu skills to single-handedly stomp an army of simulacra or engaging in sweaty coitus with Carrie-Anne Moss, he looks about as concerned as your average high school exam proctor.
It was only when I was about 17 that I realised that all the books I had were about single-handed sailing.
At just 27 she has already been hailed as a sporting legend having pitted herself against the elements to become the fastest Briton ever to sail single-handed around the globe in the famous Vendee Globe challenge.
Foy motored into isolated regions where only the camel roamed, single-handedly engaging highwaymen and time and again drawing on his remarkable resourcefulness to bring his trademark flivver back to life.
Examples of these peripheral devices are single-handed keyboards, lightweight headset pointers, and trackballs to replace mice.
For 33 years, Rodia worked single-handedly to build his towers without benefit of machine equipment, scaffolding, bolts, rivets, welds or drawing board designs.
An intrepid North Yorkshire helicopter pilot was today preparing for his most daring mission to date - to fly single-handedly around the world in an autogyro.

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