6 sentences with 'sole'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sole and other words derived from it.
• « A general (then stationed in Britain) named Constantine, son of the Tetrarch Constantius, launched a military campaign to reunite Rome under his sole rule. By 312 AD he had succeeded, claiming full control and appointing no co-emperor. »
• « All students and professors were male, as the sole purpose of the studies was supposed to be to create better ecclesiastical officials; although some women became important medieval thinkers, they were either exceptional individuals who had been tutored by men or were nuns who had access to the (often excellent) education of the convents. »
• « Empress Maria Theresa (r. 1740 - 1780), the sole surviving heir to the Habsburg throne when her father died, proved an able administrator who streamlined the offices of the Austrian state, strengthened the loyalty of her non-Austrian subjects and even won the grudging admiration of the Prussians. »
• « In July 1985, North succeeded in making Secord its sole arms supplier. He then channelled directly into 'company' accounts all the donations to the rebels that he helped to raise from private individuals and foreign governments. »
• « Macroplankton is made up of a large number of crustaceans, which are the sole food of whales, for example, and contains the larvae of crabs, lobsters, molluscs, starfish, etc. These feed by filtering seawater and the algae perform, during their nutritional process, the important function of oxygenating the water. »
• « For example, it is already well known that Japan was the main driving force behind Brazil's completion of its much-publicised Trans-Amazon route, with the sole aim of obtaining - from the Pacific Ocean - a faster way of obtaining timber, which is naturally cheaper due to the ease of transport provided by the construction of this route. »