An individual's position in the hierarchy is constantly shifting and any single act may satisfy needs at different levels.
"This could be the single act by Obama that brings Latinos to the polls in record numbers in 2012, " she said.
But the urgency of the threat, and the catastrophic consequences of even a single act of nuclear terrorism, demand an effort that is at once bold and pragmatic.
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"Through the Tunnel" is an accomplished fable about a young boy's initiation in Mediterranean waters, while "The Day Stalin Died" follows the pathos and comedy of a London writer and "To Room Nineteen" examines the effect of a single act of infidelity on a supposedly sturdy British marriage.
The putative defendants did not carry out a single belligerent act, conduct a single interrogation, or direct the operation of any military or intelligence agents actually engaged in hostilities.
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It was in 1934 that perhaps the single worst act of torture and execution in 20th-century America happened.
Margaret Thatcher was a strong supporter of the single market in Europe and signed the Single European Act.
Mrs Thatcher came to believe that she had been tricked into accepting the Single European Act in 1987.
But the devolution of design isn't usually a single abrupt act.
She remained the rallying point for the Eurosceptics in the party, who conveniently forgot that it was their heroine who had signed the Single European Act, introducing majority voting and conceding new powers for the European Court of Justice.
It was Margaret Thatcher's government, a Conservative government, that introduced the Single European Act that allowed British businesses here in Birmingham, in the Midlands, to invent things, manufacture things and then export them completely freely into the largest consumer market in the world.
Are they given too much responsibility too young? (Mr Burgaud was 29 when he took on the Outreau case.) Should they act single-handedly in sensitive cases?
Mohammed Ali described it as "the single most courageous act of this century, " while Wyomia Tyus, anchor of the U.S. women's gold-medal winning 4x100 meter relay team, dedicated the team's victory to the two ostracized sprinters.
And as America is the biggest single air-travel market in the world, it would be sensible for Europe to act as a single air-travel market too.
Once loaded with text, both the SoftBook and the Rocket EBook act as single-screen tablets that let you use simple buttons and a stylus to select titles, "turn" pages, search and highlight text, and make notes.
America's Dodd-Frank act is a single overarching law that directs agencies to issue more detailed regulations.
Other approaches create a hybrid storage configuration where flash and HDDs act like a single storage system.
People rarely act with a single purpose in mind.
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In conceiving the exhibition, the curators were especially inspired by Mr. Hamilton's work and his belief that human and machine share a "dream-like life, " having come to act as a single entity.
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Other proposals to ban live animal exports from Labour MP Gwyn Prosser and an amendment to the Sex Discrimination Act to allow single sex sporting events or clubs from Tory MP Robert Walter are unlikely to receive enough parliamentary time to become law.
And courts have sometimes failed to properly apply the legal requirements for trademarks, choosing to base their decisions on the outstanding celebrity and unique recognition of fictional characters, or lack thereof, instead of focusing on their inherent distinctiveness and ability to act as a single source identifier for the applicable goods or services.
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As the Recovery Act funds that saw through many states over the last two years are phasing out -- and it is undeniable that the Recovery Act helped every single state represented in this room manage your budgets, whether you admit it or not -- you face some very tough choices at this point on everything from schools to prisons to pensions.
The Recovery Act provides the largest single boost in scientific research in history.
This wasn't a radical act of political will, nor a single mistake (a slip of an engraver's hand, perhaps), but a sustained act of misjudgment.
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The SEC charged Dardenwith a single violation of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and sought injunctive relief, disgorgement of all ill-gotten gains (with interest), civil monetary penalties, and any other appropriate relief.
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In a country where unrealistic conditions slacken usual adoption, gay prospective parents have had to act as any straight single person would, ask for an adoption authorization, and, to improve the chances ... get the child in another country.
Many consider the EHR Incentive Program (as legislated by the HITECH Act) to be the single most foundational element of healthcare reform.
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The state legislature could do so simply by removing a single sentence from the existing False Claims Act so that tax fraud cases could be brought under that whistleblower law.
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As a material highly sensitive to the environment, graphene could act as a sensor with a single device measuring strain, gas, magnetism or pressure.
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