Yet Mr. Churchill almost single-handedly prevented any sort of mutually agreeable solution for many years.
He and his company have almost single-handedly sparked an electric car revolution that has already dramatically improved the world.
Almost single-handedly, that title made Shanda the single most successful IPO in 2004.
The Fed almost single handedly has restored the net worth of American families to their 2007 high water mark.
Its well-policed national parks have almost single-handedly rescued the white rhino from extinction.
Its mai tais and pu-pu platters almost single-handedly evoke the excitement of growing up in New York in the '60s.
Yet Sony turned that perception on its head almost single-handedly, with a couple of world-beating products and a well-defined brand.
The F-Series is Ford's crown jewel, almost single-handedly keeping the company alive.
Before Walt was through, he almost single-handedly turned banking from the equivalent of a small, sleepy town into a hyper-energetic, New York-like metropolis.
Or perhaps the century's foremost political leader is Lee Kuan Yew, who almost single-handedly built Singapore into an economically rich and corruption-free society?
"The international community should be outraged that Iceland could almost single-handedly sink deep-sea protection and the food security of future generations, " said Ms Sack.
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She kept him alive as long as she could, almost single-handedly.
Rudy Giuliani, New York's previous mayor, almost single-handedly pulled the city back from ungovernability and turned it into one of the world's better run metropolises.
After a brief stint at CNN, where he had also worked early in his career, Olbermann headed back to MSNBC and almost single-handedly revived the channel.
He is also almost single-handedly responsible for transforming the guitar, formerly the junior partner of the flamenco trinity, into an instrument of solo expression far beyond traditional limits.
The original PowerBook laptop set the bar for portable, ergonomic laptops, and in 1998 the transparent, bulbous iMac almost single-handedly moved the world away from dull "beige box" computers.
After 20 years in America's Congress, and four years after putting Republicans in control of both houses almost single-handedly, Newt Gingrich resigned as speaker and said he would leave politics.
Ngog had the arduous task of leading the Liverpool line almost single-handedly and, while he worked tirelessly, he failed to make the most of a rare chance which came his way.
Lester Brickman almost single-handedly ripped the lid off of the high-volume processing and questionable legal tactics the asbestos bar has used to pry billions of dollars from manufacturers over the years.
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Later, American Motors would add a second set of doors to its Jeep Cherokee SUV and in so doing almost single-handedly propelled what was then a niche vehicle segment into the mainstream.
"He almost single-handedly came up with the idea that the Fed should set benchmarks to target inflation, rather than tinker with the economy, " says Philip Reny, chair of the Chicago School of Economics.
With back-to-back wins, Houston had Durant blaming himself for just about anything that went wrong for the Thunder even though he scored 36 points and almost single-handedly kept his team in the game.
Widely reviled by techies and elitists as being too simplistic, AOL nevertheless succeeded by keeping a laser focus on average consumers, almost single-handedly popularizing e-mail outside the workplace and bringing the Internet into the home.
At age 82, he came back as prime minister (for the fourth time), and in several exhausting months almost single-handedly pushed Home Rule through Parliament, only to see it contemptuously discarded by the House of Lords.
Nigeria, which almost single-handedly funded previous ECOWAS interventions (in Liberia and Sierra Leone in the 1990s, costing billions of dollars and hundreds of Nigerian troops), has been reluctant to fund such expensive missions since it became democratic.
Almost single-handedly he took moral philosophy back to an earlier tradition of direct engagement with the world, and in doing so has made three substantial contributions to ethical debate: on animal rights, on poverty and on euthanasia.
Andre Lee was widely blamed for almost single-handedly bringing down one of Asia's best-known investment banks, Peregrine, in 1998, by lending a large part of its capital base to a troubled Indonesian taxi company with links to the then ruling Suharto family.
Pietersen's men got themselves into a winning position before Sachin Tendulkar almost single-handedly saw India to a six-wicket victory in the first Test, while England looked set to push India all the way in Mohali until the loss of Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff late on day three.
Far from his betraying America, as the misguided and the ill-intentioned continue to charge, Colonel Lindbergh has almost single-handedly served to strengthen America's military preparedness by imparting his knowledge to our own military and by doing everything within his power to advance the cause of American aviation and to expand America's air defenses.
Almost every single time: I was able to get a meeting and establish a connection.
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