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How to use the word one-person in a Sentence?

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We have a tendency to want to blame one person, or credit one person, when in reality these are complex systems that rise and fall for often complex, random reasons that we don’t have the ability to explain – but it’s easier to say, ‘It was Joe Schmoe over there,’.

Jeff Asher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was physically assaulted by one person. I was struck twice, both times hitting my shoulder with the second strike grazing my face, the rest of the protestors just ambushed and cornered me before I was able to move out with the help of campus police.

Riley Gaines

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We were all on a mission to get Hollie Savitt Andrea home for Serbian Christmas, everyone at London Heathrow Airport was kind of working together. If one person got through on their phone, they would pass it back in line so that the customer service agent would just help everyone in line.

London Hollie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have neighbors that have lost their entire home, one person in particular lost everything, and every time they’d get it under control, something else would happen, and the water would reroute and come back right through the family’s home.

Angie Thompson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One person can impact our way of living, and unfortunately, we’re seeing the negative impacts of that from how Twitter is being run.

Bim Ali

Found on CNN
1 year ago

After an exhaustive investigation, there is only one person who had the motive, who had the means, who had the opportunity to commit these crimes, and also whose guilty conduct after these crimes betrays him, this defendant is the one person who was living a lie, the defendant is the person on which a storm was descending, and the defendant was a person where his own storm would actually mean consequences for Maggie and Paul and consequences for those who trusted him.

Prosecutor Creighton Waters

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Usually, we don’t allow one person to step into another’s shoes and say, ‘I think that that person suffered harm,’ even if the harm is very great, so why isn’t MOHELA responsible for deciding whether to bring this suit?

Elena Kagan

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you tell one person, then they tell someone, and then all of a sudden it’s in TMZ or Page Six, so Carter and I literally made a pact together that we would not tell anyone.

Kathy Hilton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Measles is one of the most contagious viruses that we’ve identified, and if one person has measles and there’s somebody unvaccinated around them, there’s a 90% chance they’re going to get it, it really just takes one unvaccinated person to travel into a community, and they can have a measles outbreak if there isn’t a high enough vaccination rate in that community.

Tanya Altmann

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know that the best chance for a child to be successful and happy is for them to have at least one person in their life who believes in them and advocates for them. So I think it’s important for parents to know that there’s no such thing as a perfect parent, because we are all human, and humans are imperfect by nature, but that is OK.

Katherine Williamson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What may be reasonable for one person in one situation is not for someone else in another situation.

Jon Pascal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to do one kind thing, for at least one person every day. I might not be able to help everyone, or save the world. But I could make somebody's day, help someone into wanting to do that same thing. And that, is beautiful.

Anonymous

added by samanthal.26354
1 year ago

Before social media, there might have been an unpleasant interaction at school and that’s mostly where it stops, now, that interaction carries over to home and is inescapable. Instead of one person making you feel bad, there may be something posted online and peers may be seeing or even ‘liking’ this post.

Nikki Pagano

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As we were doing that, we were able to notice movement in the front seat through the windshield, so we knew that we had at least one person that was alive.

Brian Pottenger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They weren’t planning to ransom me, they weren’t going to keep me, they were planning to assassinate me. And the plot has been covered as a kidnapping plot, there was one person who showed up on, you know, on a Supreme Court justice’s lawn and turned himself in, and it was covered as an assassination attempt. And so I think that when you look at the facts of both of those, and you see how differently they’re covered, I do, you know, have concern about the language that we use, especially when women are a target as opposed to men.

Gretchen Whitmer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Constitutional applicability equal to U.S. Citizens under Law is as much for a one person solitarily as it is so for the masses. Tides will part to right reason and can do so of a single idea.

Michael Thais

added by Mike.Thais
1 year ago

Like each of you, I am deeply disappointed by the results of the recent election, despite what the armchair quarterbacks on TV will tell you, there is no one person responsible for our party’s performance across the country. I know there is no shortage of people who are eager to point fingers and assign blame here in Washington, but I won’t be one of them.

Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Dr. Oz never stops reminding everybody that I had a stroke. Yeah. In fact, I'm sure there's probably at least one person here that are filming it. Trying to have me miss some words on video. What an inspiring campaign for you. Dr. Oz.

John Fetterman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They can't think, they can't breathe. I have one person whose disease is so severe, they basically can't get out of bed, i saw a person recently who is still not working because of Covid symptoms two years later.

Aaron Friedberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I've been lifting up this circumstance amongst many individuals that are in leadership and have influence over a solution, i don't want to put it squarely in one person's lap, but I think there's a well-defined record of me lifting that up.

Chokwe Antar Lumumba

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's like all of a sudden she's got this huge push for justice, but there's one person in the crosshairs, liz Cheney has absolutely no integrity.

Rebecca Bextel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People want their vaccine, i know one person who was in that line four different days before he finally got his vaccination.

Rafael Mandelman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think that also it's our responsibility to educate those who support us, but help them today to do the message as well, because we're just one person representing each clinic and sometimes there might be those who their approach is a little bit more on the aggressive end, and that's what we've been kind of battling sometimes more in-house than anything.

Shannon Bagly Busby

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong, i had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. Frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.

Mike Pence

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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