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Now more than ever, policymakers and state institutions must use their singular capabilities to protect vulnerable communities and sectors, and to hold those who perpetrate cyberattacks accountable.
But is there, as with the Nixon shock, a singular underlying historical factor that explains Brexit?
But the singular focus on debts and deficits is misguided, because it ignores the asset side of the balance sheet.
But their looks met; he found her pale and exhausted; pretty, indeed, with her clear eyes in the face which had grown tanned, and he experienced a singular feeling; his spite had vanished; he simply desired that she should be happy with this man whom she had preferred to him.
This fair face, with the dreamy eyes, which sometimes grew savage with a red light, disturbed him, and exercised a singular power over his will.
Having lost their mother when very young, they had been rather badly brought up alone, spoilt by their father, the elder haunted by the dream of singing on the stage, the younger mad over painting in which she showed a singular boldness of taste.
Moreover she no longer concealed her contempt for anything or anybody, and at times she set herself to express singular opinions, finding fault with that which others approved, and approving things perverse and immoral, all of which made her husband open his eyes widely.
Eating his cutlet and drinking his tea, he buried his chin in his sky-blue cravat, into which were thrust two diamond pins, held together by a small gold chain; and he smiled a singular smile, in a sugary, ambiguous fashion.
"This is extraordinary—very singular," he repeated.
Pere Sorel, for it was he, was greatly surprised and even more pleased by the singular offer which M. de Renal made him with regard to his son Julien.
This discovery, which at any other time would have filled her with remorse and with a profound agitation, was no more to her than a singular spectacle, but one that left her indifferent.
The maid, amazed at the fearful distress in which she found her mistress, paid no attention fortunately to this singular utterance.
There was a crowd of people in an ill-lighted room; but everyone eyed his neighbours in a singular fashion.
This porter had a singular physiognomy.
And he spoke with that detached air which makes so singular an impression on the passionate soul whose dearest interests the speaker unconsciously destroys.
'You will find in her drawing-room many great noblemen speaking of our Princes in a tone of singular disrespect.
I owe you this and more,' he added, cutting short Julien's expressions of gratitude, 'for the singular offer which you made me at Besancon.
RONSARDIf everything seemed strange to Julien, in the noble drawing-room of the Hotel de La Mole, the young man himself, pale and dressed in black, seemed in turn highly singular to those who deigned to notice him.
Julien remarked a singular occurrence in the drawing-room: this was a general movement of all eyes towards the door, with a lull in the conversation.
This singular position required either simplicity of character or great determination.
M. de La Mole became interested in this singular character.
This singular gaze flattered those who had little intelligence, but disturbed the rest.
There is the man who will be least contemptuous of me, if, as I suppose, my question about Mademoiselle de La Mole's mourning should prove a blunder.'Mathilde was looking at him with a singular expression.
Julien tried not to exaggerate this singular friendship.
He certainly is not paid to communicate his thoughts to her.'This state of affairs, and the singular doubts which Julien felt banished the boredom which he found regularly in that drawing-room, in which, for all its magnificence, people were afraid of everything, and it was not thought proper to treat any subject lightly.
This use of the singular pronoun made him lose his head, or at least his suspicions vanished; he ventured to clasp in his arms this girl who was so beautiful and inspired such respect in him.
SHAKESPEAREOccupied with thoughts of the future and of the singular part which she hoped to play, Mathilde soon came to look back with regret upon the dry, metaphysical discussions which she often had with Julien.
He failed entirely to understand the character of the singular person whom chance had now made absolute mistress of his whole happiness.
'The man had a singular expression all the same,' he said to himself; 'his coarse eye was scrutinising me.'
M. le Duc de Chaulnes, his father-in-law, had spoken to him several times, since his only son had been killed in Spain, of wishing to hand on his title to Norbert ...'One cannot deny that Julien shows a singular aptitude for business, audacity, perhaps even brilliance,' the Marquis said to himself...'But at the back of that character, I find something alarming.
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