The electric power grid depends on metering perhaps more than any other single factor.
However, none of those is yet satisfying to me because of a single factor: Florida.
All facts and circumstances are to be taken into account, and no single factor is determinative.
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No single factor lies behind the latest run-up as we begin the trading week.
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But the single factor that can show dramatic shifts in ranking in a single year is selectivity.
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The good news is, addressing one single factor can easily prevent bad hires.
The single factor that gives indexing an advantage over active management is the size of the operating expense headwind.
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No single factor has been implicated as the cause of all breast cancers.
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At the United Nations mission in Sarajevo, there was no doubt what single factor would help stop this human cargo.
It isn't clear that any single factor is behind the persistence and growth of pickpocketing and purse snatching in many cities.
Over time, I identified a single factor that makes the biggest difference between a great meeting and a poor one: PowerPoint.
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It is the American physician's dread of lawsuits that drives up the cost of health care more than any other single factor.
No other single factor can account for both the inexplicable rise in violence in the U.S. until 1993 and the precipitous drop since then.
When it comes to the very long term, health productivity isn't everything - but if the OBR is right, it may be more important than any other single factor in determining our long-term fiscal health.
"Since there is no evidence to pin the widespread declines of bee populations on any single factor, a proposed ban on neonicotinoids is unlikely to deliver any benefits that will halt or reverse these declines, " he suggested.
This would be a good thing from the standpoint of federal finances, since runaway entitlement spending is the most important single factor that drives federal spending, deficits and debt, making it harder to fund other governmental functions.
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"Although a catalyst may appear to be obvious, suicide is never the result of a single factor or event and is likely to have several interrelated causes, " Johnstone said on the group's website soon after news emerged of Saldanha's death.
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No single factor explains the movement's shift to the goal of marriage equality, but much of the credit must go to the very religious conservatives who assiduously campaigned against same-sex marriage, thus forcing the issue onto the front burner of American politics.
Gelb pointed to the shift in Congress as the single biggest factor at work.
The selling pressure Thursday could not be attributed to any major, single fundamental factor.
But while Apple created the modern tablet market, its dominance was not assured with a single form factor.
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As President Obama has said, strengthening our education system is probably the single biggest factor affecting the future success of our nation.
The recent depression in the stock price has been the single largest factor in making these multiples move to such attractive levels.
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The war was the single biggest factor in finally helping the U.S. dig out of the Great Depression, largely because it generated jobs and exports.
Clearly, the recent Hamdan decision from the Supreme Court forced the administration's hand, and I would guess that was probably the single biggest factor here.
Despite all these promising results, the main single limited factor for achieving economic rentability remain high transport costs from the origin of garbage to the transformation site.
"The single biggest factor is ticket revenue, and a new venue is going to drive high-end ticket sales, " says Bernie Mullin, who runs the Atlanta-based Aspire Group, an industry consultant.
However, the high profile targeting of a single dietary factor, based on shaky obesity science, may be setting us up for disappointment if there is no measurable public health impact.
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