1.   For all his policy wonkishness and experience of focus groups and committee work, he is essentially a man who makes decisions alone.

2.   He has generally preferred competing solo, rather than as a team member, and all but the most recent of his balloon flights were made alone.

3.   If voters made their choice on that basis alone, Gore would win hands down.

4.   Lewinsky said the decision was too big for her to make alone and that she wanted to call her mother, Marcia Lewis, a New York writer.

5.   --Make time alone with her.

6.   Nobody makes it alone.

7.   This was a trip Jimy Williams would be making alone, with his family.

8.   And I dare say they are afraid simply because their priority is to make money alone!

9.   Damascus has criticised Jordan for making peace alone with the Hebrew State.