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  • Sometimes I would feel immensely powerful, feel that I, single-handedly, might change the course of Woolf scholarship.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Samson routinely got into fights, and once killed 1000 Philistines single-handedly and then gloated over it, showing no remorse.
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  • Christine Rankin alone will not be able to single-handedly stem the tide of political correctness at the Families Commission.
  • He recorded their encounters, including one in which she apparently fought off a street gang single-handedly. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • He had single-handedly turned the Swan from a down-at-heel spit and gob saloon to a down-at-heel success.
  • Even more encouraging is that he has shown the ability to single-handedly steal a game.
  • They proudly told of how they had single-handedly raised money through cake sales, approaching businesses, holding raffles and selling chocolates.
  • She once single-handedly convinced some French revolutionaries to leave her father on the throne.
  • Not only is he a dab hand at changing a spare tyre, he can also push-start a 19-tonne articulated truck single-handedly.
  • He thus single-handedly refutes the Platonic theory of evil as ignorance of the good.
  • 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
  • I built this house single-handedly
  • The prince wearily rose, the burden of almost single-handedly waging a war against shadows weighing him down.
  • 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
  • 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
  • (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
  • Her murder is a political thunderbolt that, if correctly harnessed, could single-handedly save the pro-euro cause.
  • 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.
  • For 33 years, Rodia worked single-handedly to build his towers without benefit of machine equipment, scaffolding, bolts, rivets, welds or drawing board designs.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The military is not in a position single-handedly to either maintain highly qualified cadres or to retain real professionals within its ranks.
  • It single-handedly brought body-con back. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • He has single-handedly kept Salford afloat, doing his level best alongside the big guns.
  • The boy from Tunapuna had fearlessly and single-handedly faced and surmounted all obstacles and carved a niche market from scratch.
  • He almost single-handedly captured two pillboxes on the Mont Fleury Battery and took more than 20 prisoners.
  • 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
  • She has many nautical achievements to her credit, including single-handedly circumnavigating Ireland.
  • This, she said, will not be done single-handedly but in collaboration with the other board members.
  • Martin drilled three 3-pointers, almost single-handedly keeping his team close for the first three quarters. USATODAY.com
  • Ian Black, a young man from up North, had single-handedly disarmed the bomb.
  • He almost single-handedly brokered a peace deal with secessionist rebels in Chechnya last fall, thereby ending an inordinately bloody war.
  • They single-handedly did more to embitter me toward opposing fans than anyone else in any sport, including Flyers fans and Duke fans.
  • She has, almost single-handedly, realigned British politics.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Almost single-handedly Karl Barth retrieved dogmatics for the mainstream of academic theology after its marginalization in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  • By the accumulation of more and more silver, they effectively protected their family's property and, single-handedly remonetized the white metal.
  • She campaigned single-handedly against the closure during the 1970s of the steamie in the basement of the pool building.
  • Our sergeant led our platoon across Crete displaying great bravery and single-handedly taking out German machine-gun positions.
  • 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
  • An unhinged American general single-handedly launches a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
  • The White Stripes cannot single-handedly satiate one man's desire for primal garage rock.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • He single-handedly took sailing from a gentle pastime into an athletic sport.
  • 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
  • She faces the herculean task of bringing up four children single-handedly.
  • 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?
  • With dizzying speed, the tiny label almost single-handedly ignited the hip-hop revolution that made rap a household word.
  • But then a bouncer single-handedly pushes them all back, tipping the crowd three steps down the steps. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
  • 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_
  • 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.
  • 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
  • She brought three children up single-handedly, often at great personal sacrifice .
  • Rolly single-handedly attempted to apprehend the youths, put out the fire and administer first aid to barman Wheeler.
  • 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.
  • In fact, I can single-handedly overhaul our educational system for free.
  • 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
  • He has pulled off an extraordinary feat in completing the voyage single-handedly.
  • The men advance towards her and she single-handedly knocks all of them to the ground escaping without a scratch.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Almost single-handedly, he reconnected with the positive and idealistic instincts of middle-class Americans.
  • George Hudson was the far-sighted entrepreneur who single-handedly transformed York into a thriving, modern city.
  • Collor nurtured the idea that he was a superman, who single-handedly could resolve Brazil's crisis.
  • He recorded their encounters, including one in which she apparently fought off a street gang single-handedly. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • The former Thackley player, who describes himself as ‘a partnership-breaker’, almost single-handedly bowled out Mills with his gentle inswingers.

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