single man

noun

Checkers.

1. an individual checker restricted to forward moves, as contrasted with a king.

Example Sentences

The separation of powers provides safeguards against threats to liberty stemming from the accumulation of powers in any single man or institution.

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A will from 2019 mentions that he’s a single man and leaves his residual estate to six children.

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But he has never experienced anything like this before, where work is so dependent on the whims of a single man, he said.

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Trump and his team are pressing a theory of the “unitary executive,” that constitutional power is concentrated in a single man, allowing the White House to move more aggressively and with greater speed facing fewer guardrails.

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“Democracies aren’t destroyed because of the impulses of a single man; they are, instead, degraded in the course of a partisan tit-for-tat dynamic that degrades norms over time until one side sees an opening to deliver the death blow,” wrote Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Willick.

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