* Madhva's singular contribution was to offer a new insight and analysis of the classical Vedantic texts, the Vedas, Upanishads, Brahma Sutra, Mahabharata, Pancharatra and Puranas, and place uncompromising Dvaita thought, which had been ravaged by attacks from Advaita, on a firm footing.

The Civil War was a significant force in the eventual dominance of the singular usage by the end of the 19th century.

A corps ( " core "; the plural is spelled the same as singular but pronounced " cores "; from French, from the Latin corpus " body ") is either a large formation, or an administrative grouping of troops within an armed force with a common function such as Artillery or Signals representing an arm of service.

The law enforcement task force — Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and Glendale Police Department — began to assume that more than one person was responsible for the murders, even though the media continued to use the singular, Hillside Strangler.

Until the entry in force of the Orthographic Agreement of 1990, the correct spelling was acreano in the singular and in the plural acreanos.

" Both during the show and in her June, 2011, " O The Magazine ," Oprah shared that Mattie was the singular force who changed her mind about ending her program at 20 years.

This man, who was once leader of the Hajin Mon ninja, is no longer human, but a force of singular and unprecedented capabilities.

As the collective security system of the League of Nations started to crack with the Abyssinia crisis, and the approach of World War II, Sweden could look back on 120 years of successful neutralist politics – with one singular exception: the backup force on Jutland during the First war of Schleswig.

" The ballad of " Scotland's Skaith " ranks among the happiest conceptions of the Scottish Doric muse ; rural life is depicted with singular force and accuracy, and the debasing consequences of the inordinate use of ardent spirits among the peasantry, are delineated with a vigour and power, admirably adapted to suit the author's benevolent intention in the suppression of intemperance.

The 1996 election of the Howard Liberal government resulted in significant reforms to the ADF's force structure and role, with the new government's defence strategy placed less singular emphasis on defending Australia from direct attack and greater emphasis on working in cooperation with regional states and Australia's allies to manage potential security threats in recognition of Australia's global security interests.

The genius of Guidi was lyric in the highest degree ; his songs are written with singular force, and charm the reader, in spite of touches of bombast.

In the case of Waring's problem, one takes a sufficiently high power of the generating function to force the situation in which the singularities, organised into the so-called singular series, predominate.

B ' nei Anusim (, " children the forced "; singular male, Ben Anusim, " son the forced "; singular female, Bat Anusim, " daughter the forced ") is a term, in the plural form, which refers to the children and all later descendents of anusim — " anusim " in turn being a category of Jews in Jewish religious law ( Halakha ) who were forced or coerced to abandon Judaism against their will, typically whilst force converted to another religion.

The primary Green's function of Stokes flow is the Stokeslet, which is associated with a singular point force embedded in a Stokes flow.

The Kaibiles ( singular: Kaibil ) are a special operations force of the Military of Guatemala.

His descriptive powers were of the highest order, and his style, pure of all affectations and embellishments, is of singular force and suppleness.

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

Alchemists have historically rewritten, and evolved the explanation of their art, making a singular definition difficult.

Perhaps the word may be included among those mysterious expressions discussed by Adolf von Harnack, “ which belong to no known speech, and by their singular collocation of vowels and consonants give evidence that they belong to some mystic dialect, or take their origin from some supposed divine inspiration .”

However, when a speaker wishes to emphasize that the individuals are acting separately, a plural pronoun may be employed with a singular or plural verb: the team takes their seats or the team take their seats, rather than the team takes its seats.

Species in the Coleoptera have a hard exoskeleton, particularly on their forewings ( elytra, singular elytron ).

In Modern English, nouns have distinct singular and plural forms ; that is, they decline to reflect their grammatical number.

In this case, the analogy applies both to the form of the words and to their meaning: in each pair, the first word means " one of X ", while the second " two or more of X ", and the difference is always the plural form-s affixed to the second word, signaling the key distinction between singular and plural entities.

This is the received text of the Eastern Orthodox Church, with the exception that in its liturgy it changes verbs from the plural by which the Fathers of the Council collectively professed their faith to the singular of the individual Christian's profession of faith.

Modern English expresses noun classes through the third person singular personal pronouns he ( male person ), she ( female person ), and it ( object, abstraction, or animal ), and their other inflected forms.

For this reason, noun classes are often referred to by combining their singular and plural forms, e. g., rafiki would be classified as " 9 / 6 ", indicating that it takes class 9 in the singular, and class 6 in the plural.

He supported his premise by showing that their marriages, in which husband was the head, were arranged according to the rules of good management: those who are in command ( quae principantur ) in their society were always singular, while subordinates ( subiecta ) were multiple.

A neoclassical politics provided both the ethos of the elites and the rhetoric of the upwardly mobile, and accounts for the singular cultural and intellectual homogeneity of the Founding Fathers and their generation.

For example, in " Anyone who thinks they have been affected should contact their doctor ", they and their are within the scope of the universal, distributive quantifier anyone, and can be interpreted as referring to an unspecified individual or to people in general ( notwithstanding the fact that " anyone " is strictly grammatically singular ).

Steven Pinker on the English singular " their " construction.

As part of the terms of their surrender to the Milesians the Tuatha Dé Danann agreed to retreat and dwell underground in the sídhe ( modern Irish: sí ; Scottish Gaelic: sìth ; Old Irish síde, singular síd ), the hills or earthen mounds that dot the Irish landscape.

It is singular that the Moslem Arabs share this veneration for St. George, and send their mad people to be cured by him, as well as the Christians.

Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro offers a singular example of monarchs willingly turning their power to ecclesiastic authority ( Montenegrin Orthodox ), as the last of the House of Crnojević ( styled Grand Voivode, not sovereign princes ) did, in order to preserve national unity before the Ottoman onslaught as a separate millet under an autochthonous ethnarch.

The Byzantines still claimed sovereignty over the Lombard principalities and the lack of singular leader to prevent their advances into Lombard territory allowed the Byzantines to make inroads further north.

The determinant contradictions ( the reasons for popular revolt ) are not addressed and so their great mass is " displaced " onto the singular event.

In spite of its absurdist amusements, this singular issue was a work of impassioned radical opinion, published only a few weeks after the communist revolt in Berlin had been quashed by Gustav Noske's Free Corps, and Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg murdered.

Stallman advocates referring to copyrights, patents and trademarks in the singular and warns against abstracting disparate laws into a collective term.

Plankton ( singular plankter ) are any organisms that live in the water column and are incapable of swimming against a current.

" The singular in the original highlights the struggle of the individual against the wicked masses.

It could be argued that because of Rickover's singular focus on reactor operations, and direct line of communications with each nuclear submarine's captain, that this acted against the captains ' war-fighting abilities.

The scientific method assumes that a system with perfect integrity yields a singular extrapolation within its domain that one can test against observed results.

In the later 20th century, BDSM activists have protested against these conceptual models, originally derived from correlative to the philosophies of two singular historical figures and implying a clear pathological denotation of the authors ' controversial mores and essentially Nihilistic lack of ethical convictions.

Once encountering the tip of another expanding, exploring self, the tips press against each other in pheromonal recognition or by an unknown recognition system, fusing to form a genetic singular that can cover hectares called a genet or just microscopical areas.

Several sheaves ( singular sheaf ) are then leant against each other with the ears off the ground to dry out, forming a stook.

In November 1641 Digby was recorded as performing singular good service, and doing beyond admiration, in speaking in the Lords against the instruction concerning evil counsellors.

Anusim (, ; singular male, Anús, ; singular female, Anusáh,, meaning " Coerced ") is a legal category of Jews in halakha ( Jewish religious law ) who were forced to abandon Judaism against their will, typically while forcibly converted to another religion.

The Augsburg Confession has singular importance as the unanimous consensus and exposition of our Christian faith, particularly against the false worship, idolatry, and superstition of the papacy and against other sects, and as the symbol of our time, the first and unaltered Augsburg Confession, which was delivered to Emperor Charles V at Augsburg during the great Diet in the year 1530 ... A recent book on Lutheranism asserts, " To this day ... the Augsburg Confession ... remains the basic definition of what it means to be a ' Lutheran.

In fact, so many people now use they in the old singular way that dictionaries and usage guides are taking a critical look at the prohibition against it.

It's anti an interpretation of the word of God that is singular, as against what Elizabeth's was, which was to look upon her faith as concomitant '.

A singular independence of spirit, a breadth of mind which refused to be contracted by party formulas, a sanity which was proof against the contagion of national delirium, were equally characteristic of uncle and nephew.

People known as banganga ( singular: nganga ) work as healers, diviners, and mediators who defend the living against witchcraft and provide them with remedies against diseases resulting either from witchcraft or the demands of bakisi ( spirits ), emissaries from the land of the dead.