Word: solely
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...Edward VII the sole example of a prince who spent most of a lifetime in waiting. George IV was 58, and his daughter already dead, when he finally became King in 1820. His younger brother, William IV, was no less than 65, and both his daughters dead, when he reached the throne in 1830. Some famous heirs never reached it at all. Edward, the Black Prince of Wales, who conquered the French at Poitiers in 1356, lived to be 46 without succeeding his father, Edward...
...view that the individual organism is the sole contender in the struggle for survival fails to explain how ants and other animals live in colonies, cooperating instead of competing among themselves...
...Bruins knock off the Cantabs, they'll earn sole possession of the title. But if Harvard prevails, it could move into a three-way tie for first with Brown and Cornell--provided that the Big Red disposes of the Tigers...
...that have little in common but the dream of a Palestinian state. Divided by strategy (whether to rely on diplomacy, guerrilla war or some uneasy amalgam of both) and the rivalries of their leaders, the groups have split and recombined endlessly. In 1974 Arab states proclaimed the P.L.O. "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people." That designation, reaffirmed in 1982, is the foundation of the P.L.O's power in international affairs. But formal recognition of the P.L.O. has never prevented the Arab nations from furthering their own feuds by backing one P.L.O. faction against another. P.L.O. fighters have been...
Dartmouth (1-1 overall), on the other hand, couldn't score until the fourth quarter. Apart from that sole touchdown, the Hanoverian possessions resulted in: three punts, two interceptions, a missed field goal, and two fumbles by the punter...