How can he possibly fend for himself at all, let alone manage quite literally single-handed for 30 years? |
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Out of the current five yacht races that circumnavigate the globe, only Around Alone and the non-stop Vendee Globe are single-handed. |
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The code will recommend practices such as a maximum breaking strain of line, hook size of no more than 14, and the use of a single-handed rod. |
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Most notable of all, he has, almost single-handed, tamed the once all-powerful military and established civilian supremacy in the government. |
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They could not believe that any sane man would take on a multinational corporation almost single-handed, let alone succeed? |
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It was only when I was about 17 that I realised that all the books I had were about single-handed sailing. |
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And since the late 1990s, she seems to have been pursuing a single-handed crusade to save the diva from extinction. |
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I left with no doubt in my mind at all that this was a man who, single-handed, changed the course of popular music forever. |
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Support is needed for audit, particularly for single-handed and small practices. |
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What is worse about Henry's story is that he raised his three sons virtually single-handed after his wife deserted them. |
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View the video of the day filmed on the boat by Marco and follow his single-handed race through the furies of the North Atlantic. |
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It is beyond the capacity of any country or organisation to tackle these trans-boundary problems single-handed. |
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The first standard enclosure for ergonomically favourable single-handed operation. |
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In addition to the bad weather, Doctor Patenaude's sailboat hit a whale during the single-handed leg of the race, smashing the rudder to pieces. |
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There is no justification for single-handed groups to keep countries in poverty and backwardness. |
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Meanwhile, the Lib Dems will take single-handed control of the council's all-powerful executive after Labour and Tories rejected a power-sharing offer. |
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He has had plenty of time to prepare it and has won two races in it, including the Transat, the gruelling 2,800-mile single-handed transatlantic race, during the summer. |
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Examples of these peripheral devices are single-handed keyboards, lightweight headset pointers, and trackballs to replace mice. |
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We were comprehensively beaten at Anfield where Titti Camra destroyed us nearly single-handed but the home game was another matter. |
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She cooks, keeps house, dispenses food and kindness and runs the Lodge single-handed. |
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Secondly, single-handed practices were capable of sophisticated asthma care, provided they were adequately resourced. |
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She takes on a roomful of dark-suited gangsters single-handed with only a samurai sword. |
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The attempt by a Yorkshire-based soldier to fly an autogyro single-handed from England to Australia has failed. |
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The car's sectioned panels can be removed single-handed to assist with oil checks, a feature unique for this class of car. |
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She is portrayed as a single-handed crusader in the fight against drugs. |
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It was the single-handed effort of this man which took Kathaprasangam, which once was a prominent part of the temple festival itinerary, to the mainstream of Kerala culture. |
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The 16-year-old was told on his arrival that despite being the youngest person to sail the Atlantic single-handed, he would have to work hard to catch up on school work. |
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Carrying it across the room, he opened the window single-handed. |
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She still generates enormous force, but what is most attractive about her game is the subtly of stroke, particularly that classical single-handed backhand. |
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He once arrested forty gamblers in their lair, single-handed. |
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The attempt on the single-handed record could be a two-trimaran race. |
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You are not supposed to field a Farseer with both a two-handed close combat weapon and a single-handed close combat weapon, let alone a Shuriken Pistol on top of it. |
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The single-handed sailors setting sail across the Atlantic never do it with the sole objective of winning on their mind. |
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The ergonomic positioning of the scanning and entry keys make single-handed operation simple, and the tilted scanner head prevents cramping and fatigue in the hands. |
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I hadn't even finished tying on a new fly, when Belinda hooked another Yellow-Fin, which once again she played for about ten minutes on the single-handed fly rod. |
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Not content with discharging single-handed his heavy bursarial duties he undertook to compile a register of all members of the College since its foundation. |
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And not to be forgotten, the locking mechanism for opening and closing allows for single-handed operation. |
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This valve appears to have been installed to assist single-handed operation of the net launch and it cannot be considered a remote control device similar to the hold-to-run-control. |
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Iran has shouldered this burden almost single-handed. |
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Long-distance single-handed sailing has its beginnings in the nineteenth century, when a number of sailors made notable single-handed crossings of the Atlantic. |
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With its tens of thousands of victims, my country has witnessed the suffering of those innocent people while having to shoulder the burden of alleviating their painful plight single-handed. |
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That is always a good thing for the morale of the single-handed yachtsman. |
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We see his shoulders strain as he up-ends the coffin and slides it single-handed from the saw-horses. |
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Meanwhile, Dame Ellen MacArthur, the British yachtswoman who recently broke the single-handed round-the-world record, has been participating in a sea-bird count on South Georgia. |
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Pun won the VC in 1944 in Burma for charging Japanese machine-gunners single-handed. |
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The U-boats, averaging eight on each of the shipping routes, picked off independents and stragglers and made daring single-handed attacks on convoys. |
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Completely unique, the HandyShell features a flip-out thumb ring handle that gives iPad 2 users an easy, secure single-handed grip on the go. |
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While the thirteen single-handed yachtsmen in this Artemis Transat have covered a third of the route, Safran managed to claw back around ten miles or so during the night and move up one place in the rankings. |
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The usual Vendée Globe scenario repeated itself as the bows ploughed into the hostile Deep South: one single-handed yachtsman in front and a group chasing him a long way behind. |
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Wolf's work, which, though not very exacting, had to be done single-handed, kept him to his post. |
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