Hungary's leader is notalone in eastern and southern Europe, where democratically elected populist strongmen increasingly dominate, deploying the power of the state and a battery of instruments of intimidation to crush dissent, demonise opposition, tame the media and tailor the system to their ends.
1662, Jacques Olivier, translated by Richard Banke,A Discourse of Women, Shewing Their Imperfections Alphabetically,→OCLC,page18:
There are proofs enough in History, and first that beautifulHynes, so much beloved byCharles the seventh King ofFrance, who valued thealone possession of her Love at so high a rate, that[…]
1692,Richard Bentley,[A Confutation of Atheism](please specify the sermon), London:[Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published1692–1693:
God,[…] by whosealone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being.
1676,Robert Barclay,An Apology for the True Christian Divinity[…][1]:
and therefore all Killing, Banishing, Fining, Imprisoning, and other such things, which Men are afflicted with, for thealone exercise of their Conscience, or difference in Worship or Opinion, proceedeth from the spirit ofCain, the Murderer, and is contrary to the Truth;
Except on matters of mere detail, there are perhaps no practical questions, even among those which approach nearest to the character of purely economical questions, which admit of being decided on economical premisesalone.
1903, Arthur M. Winfield,The Rover Boys on Land and Sea[4]:
In writing this tale I had in mind notalone to please my young readers, but also to give them a fair picture of life on the ocean as it is to-day,
(by extension)Used to emphasize the size or extent of something by selecting a subset.
Her wardrobe is huge. She has three racks for blazersalone.
In the first place, though Lady Burton published comparatively little, she was a voluminous writer, and she left behind her such a mass of letters and manuscripts that the sorting of themalone was a formidable task.
“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as womanalone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
In Americaalone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
Unlike most focusing adverbs,alone typically appears after a noun phrase.
Only the teacher knew vs.The teacheralone knew
Like "by themselves", the adverb "alone" may be used with a plural subject, and can have either a collective sense (where the verb and adverb apply to the plural noun phrase as one conceptual whole) or a distributive sense (where the verb and adverb apply separately to each individual referred to by the noun phrase) in this context.
After the children finished playing together, they playedalone with their toys.(distributive: each child is playing alone as an individual)
The representatives presented a united front in the meeting, but when they werealone, they argued about what to do.(collective: the group, made up of representatives, is alone, but each representative is not alone as an individual)
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