Alone in sentence

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The United States stands nearly alone in refusing to join the Land Mine Treaty, the Rights of the Child Convention, or the International Criminal Court.

Last month alone, they visited five large cities without success.

This year alone, back-to-back hurricanes have devastated Caribbean islands, monsoon flooding has displaced tens of millions in South Asia, and fires have raged on nearly every continent.

In that case, policymakers should focus on improving productivity, rather than on price reductions alone.

In 2011 alone, net capital inflows fell nearly 90% year on year, tourism was down 30%, the trade deficit soared to $28 billion, and GDP growth slowed from 3.8% to 1%.

But this is as unlikely as it is that Europe will figure out that austerity alone will not solve its problems.

Ethiopia’s government is not alone in seeking to consolidate political power by restricting what citizens say online.

Yet America demands that it should be left alone to put back on track the delicate Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in jeopardy since the assassination of Yitzak Rabin and the Israeli right's return to power in Jerusalem.

However, given the little weight given to constitutions in Iraq’s modern history, it is likely that the political class will leave the text alone.

But central bankers are right to stress the limits of what monetary policy alone can achieve.

I have Greek friends who say that Greece is not alone.

More than 20 million people in those four countries alone remain severely food-insecure, and the United Nations estimates that $1.8 billion in immediate humanitarian aid is needed.

There are 50 million smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa alone, and they support many millions more.

That alone makes the election results due on May 16 worth the world’s attention.

In 2007 alone, the US imported $790 billion of capital, while the emerging and developing countries exported $714 billion.

In the first three post-Katrina months alone (September to December 2005), $2.1 billion were issued.

But the stringent institutional reforms that they demand, while beneficial in theory, might not stabilize, let alone enhance, the development process.

If it does not, it could find itself increasingly isolated and alone in a neighborhood where new powers have moved in.

Investors also see that the US regulatory system is stronger than the SEC alone.

In the last three months of 2008 alone, net US-asset purchases topped $500 billion dollars – three times more than what was purchased in the preceding nine months.

The future belonged to the US and the Soviet Union, neither of which had sentimental feelings about the British Empire, let alone the “Anglo-Saxons.”

For ideological hawks, compromises are treason: how can you jeopardize the historical patrimony of the Jewish people, let alone God's promise to Abraham?

And Ukraine is not alone.

But maybe it is not the politicians alone who are mad.

And historians have come to acknowledge that the Nationalist government’s flaws – corruption, inflation, military weakness – were, in part, a product of its long war against Japan, which it waged essentially alone between 1937 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

Sunlight is not alone.

The private sector alone cannot and will not counter the risk of stall speed.

Little has been done to deconstruct structural complexity, let alone win sufficient public support for a medium-term vision, a credible implementation strategy, and a set of measures that is adequate to the task at hand.

In February alone, there were announcements of new solar power projects in Nigeria (1,000 megawatts), Australia (2,000 MW), and India (10,000 MW).

In fact, the world will spend $125 billion on wind and solar subsidies alone in 2017.

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