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Solitary in sentence

228 examples of Solitary in a sentence

Staking out a solitary or semi-detached position in today’s increasingly unpredictable world is likely to lead only to marginalization and decline.
It was strengthened in the course of the war against Islamist terrorism, in which the Kurds have been the civilized world’s staunchest – and sometimes solitary – spearhead.
Such a combination of solitary brilliance, personal integrity, and public activism is rare among intellectuals.
Nor does it seem likely to emulate the splintered, individualized, solitary society – and the commodified sexual revolution – that Western, self-based feminism reflects.
So her work naturally posited female freedom in a secular, solitary, and individualistic context, in which “freedom” means pure autonomy rather than integration within a whole – comprising family, community, and even God – on equal terms.
So an invasion might have led to the death of 80 million Americans and the obliteration of Cuba simply because Kennedy’s government did not have the facts right (which is often more common than not when the executive must take a solitary decision.)
In 1966, a year before Israeli paratroopers ostensibly united Jerusalem, the composer Naomi Shemer sang of, “the city that sits solitary, and in its heart a wall.”
To paraphrase the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, they expect youngsters’ lives to be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish – and long.
Indeed, single mothers are the new maternal ideal – women whose maternal drive is so selfless and intense that they choose to raise children even under the burden of their solitary status.
But the truth is that China is a solitary, vulnerable rising power – one that faces potentially crippling domestic challenges.
Equating war with a solitary tyrant thus imposes strategic limitations for policymakers.
Also tellingly, the accused member of the hated religious minority was jailed for life and condemned to a method of punishment – solitary confinement on an island 3,000 miles away – that was invented just for him after his conviction.
The journey to a job – whether formal or informal, entrepreneurial or traditional – is often a solitary one.
Palestinians working in Israel are good for both sides, and better than the foreigners who come from distant lands and live an isolated life in Israel, solitary and under constant threat of expulsion.
Children should not be jailed, except in extreme circumstances; yet thousands of migrant children currently are in detention, including hundreds in solitary confinement.
We are compiling a comprehensive list of the polling stations where ZANU supporters had solitary control.
But when the attacker is a solitary individual – an American citizen, no less– it raises serious questions about the system from which he or she (though almost always a he in these cases) emerged.
Another Russian revolution – on New Year’s Eve 1999, when President Vladimir Putin gained the government foothold that ultimately enabled him to rule the country to this day – also came down to a solitary selfish decision by the country’s then-leader.
“But, Yanis,” he said, “if I were to go to Stockholm, they would throw me in solitary and, before I got a chance to answer any allegations, I would be bundled into a plane heading for a US supermax prison.”
Apart from the solitary decay of radioactive atoms, nuclear energy is firmly locked inside individual nuclei, which never meet one another except at the center of the sun.
This could mean, for example, transforming traditional floor plans, designed to facilitate solitary task execution, into more open, dynamic spaces, which encourage the so-called cafeteria effect.
China has taken two Canadian citizens hostage because of Canada’s 2018 decision to detain a senior executive of Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei; the men are about to spend a third Christmas in solitary confinement.
All day long I have had to take domestic decisions resulting from' (he emphasized the word 'resulting') 'my new solitary position.
Even down to small details Koznyshev found in her all that he desired in a wife: she was poor and solitary, so that she would not bring into her husband's house a crowd of relations and their influence, as he saw Kitty doing.
Then a solitary voice proclaimed the number for and against.
Zacharie was already pushing Philoméne in spite of her resistance into the same solitary path.
Beneath the pale starlight, the two solitary walkers only recognized each other when they were face to face.
Near three o'clock in the afternoon on July 6, fifteen miles south of shore, the Abraham Lincoln doubled that solitary islet at the tip of the South American continent, that stray rock Dutch seamen had named Cape Horn after their hometown of Hoorn.
For some it's a polypary, and for others, such as Professor Milne-Edwards, it's a single, solitary individual.
To the south, ten miles from the Nautilus, a solitary islet rose to a height of 200 meters.
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