(pron.) A reflexive form of the indefinite pronoun one. Commonly writen as two words, one's self.
Example Sentences:
(1) This "first exposure" determines whether one views oneself as "sick" or changed.
(2) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(3) It is doubtful, however, whether complaining to Hillary Clinton about settlements, and positioning oneself as the "independent technocrat" to head up a unity government, will be enough to rescue his reputation across the occupied territories.
(4) This mythology, embodied over those decades in the Horatio Alger stories consumed particularly by upwardly mobile young men and in the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", consistently held out that American promise by equating hard work (along with other good Puritan values such as delayed gratification, temperance, saving and self-reliance) with economic success.
(5) Days when the only thing to do is to grit one’s teeth and force oneself to think different thoughts.
(6) Nearly all of the world’s religions involve some sort of ritual cleansing by submerging oneself or parts of the body in water, from mikveh to baptism to ablutions.
(7) Both types of abuse were associated with the following behaviors: running away; considering hurting oneself; suicide attempts; and the use of drugs, pot (marijuana), cigarettes, and laxatives.
(8) The 10 most common symptoms were paranoid ideas, hearing of voices, talking to oneself, insomnia, aggression, abnormal behaviour, laughing to oneself, disturbed behaviour, crying to oneself and withdrawn behaviour.
(9) The markers, maps, cues, and senses used to orient oneself to the immediate environment are not recognizable.
(10) It was found that a considerable decrease in the appraisal of oneself as a sexual partner is generally basic to the problem.
(11) This eagerness to declare oneself exempt from the rules to which others are bound, on the grounds of one's own objective superiority, is always the animating sentiment behind nationalistic criminality.
(12) Attitudes about oneself, illness and death, occupation, personal growth, and professional relationships were assessed with a semantic differential questionnaire before training, after training, and 1 year later.
(13) Sometimes, it seems, calling oneself a feminist is a personal act of vanity, with no wider resonance – witness Louise Mensch the feminist , Theresa May the feminist and, most fantastically, Margaret Thatcher the feminist, even though her supporters will happily tell you that the woman stood for no one but herself.
(14) Building walls is just isolating oneself,” he said.
(15) Serum cholesterol varied directly (p less than 0.02) with: body weight, serum albumin, serum total protein, serum sodium, ability to walk, and ability to feed oneself; and indirectly (p less than 0.02) with death rate, degree of functional dependence, and serum SGOT and LDH.
(16) Negative emotional states were induced in second-grade children by one of four processes, all of which involved social rejection content: cognition that focused on (a) the self (thinking about oneself being rejected by a peer) or (b) another person (thinking about a peer being rejected); or experience that related to (c) oneself (actually being socially rejected) or (d) observing another (vicarious: seeing a peer be socially rejected).
(17) By limiting oneself to these planes, the examination can be carried out on patients with acute symptoms.
(18) Pursuing protectionism is like locking oneself in a dark room.
(19) Itʼs quite a feat when you think about it, to cast oneself as a great feminist crusader while you perfect the art of self objectification and then go on to spend your entire career pandering to the male gaze.
(20) Asked about the moral implications, RTL quoted her as saying: “I think one must decide that for oneself.” Bild reported on Raunigk 10 years ago when she gave birth to her 13th child, quoting her at the time as saying she had originally envisaged having only one.
Solitary
Definition:
(a.) Living or being by one's self; having no companion present; being without associates; single; alone; lonely.
(a.) Performed, passed, or endured alone; as, a solitary journey; a solitary life.
(a.) ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.
(a.) Not inhabited or occupied; without signs of inhabitants or occupation; desolate; deserted; silent; still; hence, gloomy; dismal; as, the solitary desert.
(a.) Single; individual; sole; as, a solitary instance of vengeance; a solitary example.
(a.) Not associated with others of the same kind.
(n.) One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret; a hermit; a recluse.
Example Sentences:
(1) The masses were solitary and located in the retroperitoneum (five cases), mediastinum (one case), and axilla (one case).
(2) No HRP-labeled axons were found in the facial and solitary nuclei and the cerebellum.
(3) No substance P binding sites were present in the central region of the parvocellular subdivision or the solitary tract.
(4) In solitary ulcers the ratio male: female was 1.1:1, while it was 2.2:1 in the cases in which a duodenal ulcer had been demonstrated, earlier or simultaneously with the gastric ulcer.
(5) Three of these patients, who had a solitary stone could successfully be treated by ESWL as monotherapy.
(6) He was held there for another eight months in conditions that aroused widespread condemnation , including being held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day and being made to strip naked at night.
(7) Twenty-six of 41 patients with solitary liver cysts, some of them with ventriculation, received surgical treatment.
(8) Solitary diverticula were seen in three patients and in the fourth case there were three diverticula.
(9) The radiological differential diagnosis includes neuroblastoma, leukaemic infiltration, lymphoma, histiocytosis X, solitary and multifocal osteosarcoma and other deposits.
(10) Thus the solitary experience seems to be more influenced by disturbed individual dynamics, but in other cases social factors seem to be crucial.
(11) The prison suicide rate, at 120 deaths per 100,000 people, is about 10 times higher than the rate in the general population.” The report calls for a recently revised incentives and earned privileges regime to be scrapped and for an undertaking that prisoners with mental health problems or at known risk of suicide should never be placed in solitary.
(12) During the autopsy of a 24 year old woman, who died of cardiorespiratory insufficiency a large solitary tumour was found extending into the right ventricle of the heart and obstructing the pulmonary valve subtotally.
(13) Eighteen patients received implants for recurrent malignant astrocytoma (Group II) and 3 for recurrent solitary cerebral metastasis from adenocarcinoma of the lung (Group III).
(14) For whites, in addition to health and solitary activities, interaction with family and sex were also found to be significant.
(15) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(16) These results suggest distinct operating mechanisms of fast and slow rhythms in the solitary complex in vitro.
(17) With one probable exception all of the tumours were solitary.
(18) Government officials drew the public’s ire after charging Manning with three counts of misconduct following the suicide attempt, including two which carried possible penalties of indefinite solitary confinement.
(19) Solitary abnormalities on bone scan or chest film serve as an excellent examples of this dilemma.
(20) Membrane potential trajectories of 68 bulbar respiratory neurones from the peri-solitary and peri-ambigual areas of the brain-stem were recorded in anaesthetized cats to explore the synaptic influences of post-inspiratory neurones upon the medullary inspiratory network.