The phrase
"isolated incidents" means that something happened, but it happened only rarely or in a few specific cases. It suggests that the occurrence is not common or widespread.
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Within the last year, nightly news reports have informed the public of several
isolated incidents of accidental food poisoning at some public schools.
There are reports of longstanding fear and anticipation of abuse, followed by a «confirming» but
isolated incident in which actual abuse took place.
By trauma, we're not talking
about isolated incidents as the traditional definition would have it, but a whole set of environmental factors that have adverse effects.
In some cases, these defects were seen right out of the box and even after multiple exchanges, so these are not
probably isolated incidents.
While isolated incidents of negligence may not kill a patient, successive mistakes can increase chances for causing them severe harm.
Even isolated incidents have their price; your insurance company could raise your rate after you have a traffic ticket added to your record.
Executive team members, most who have spent decades at the company, concluded this fraud had to be
minor isolated incidents.
Instead, the best invasion films that come to mind are usually those that
depict isolated incidents in small towns or at remote arctic research stations.
As bad studies last forever and do even more damage than the verifiable facts themselves, so do scandals involving reforms — even if they are
isolated incidents compared to their overwhelming benefits.
This diverse participation highlights the fact that dog fights are
not isolated incidents — they are often planned events which people consciously involve themselves in.
Some will try and chalk this up
as isolated incident, the work of one teenager with serious mental health problems.
UPDATE: After Grisanti and his wife returned home from the hospital last night, the senator released a statement giving his own account of what he called an «
isolated incident by a few people.»
On its face, the HPRB's decision defines a «matter» which must be investigated and disposed of by an inquiry committee expansively enough to capture not
only isolated incidents of negligence or incompetent provision of professional services, but also issues such as overbilling that many professional regulatory bodies treat as outside their jurisdiction.
Acute vomiting is an
occasional isolated incident of vomiting, often not serious and the result of eating something disagreeable, a diet change, eating too fast, etc..
It was the College's view that in
such isolated incidents the inquiry committee must decide to take no further action pursuant to s. 33 (6)(a) of the HPA unless it determines after investigation that «the conduct or competence of a registrant constitutes a continuing danger to the public» (Ibid.).
John H. Marburger III, the president's science adviser, says critics have conjured up conspiratorial patterns from
isolated incidents involving advisory appointments and policy decisions at the Department of Health and Human Services and the EPA.
Accidents occurring in oil refineries can range
from isolated incidents which seriously injure an individual worker, to enormous fires or explosions which injure or kill dozens.
Yet in this seemingly
isolated incident lurk important issues about what it means to be an educational community and, more broadly, about the way in which American colleges and universities are likely to be regarded in the future.
The general inclination is to view occurances of violence, harrassment, or abuse as
isolated incidents perpetrated by individuals, says Katz, but looking at things that way misses the larger picture.
The survey found that most of the respondents (58 %) believe that «dog attacks are
isolated incidents caused by bad owners, not by the breed of the dog.»
The War Stories single - player mode, focusing on five
isolated incidents based on the true events of World War I, follows in - tow with equally insightful respect; without ever being so arrogant as to overstep the bounds of its genre or medium.
Protesters have previously shut lines down in
more isolated incidents but it is rare, said Richard Kuprewicz, president of pipeline safety consultancy Accufacts.
SNC - Lavalin's previous statements and responses to questions from Canadian Business have struck the same tone: these are
isolated incidents conducted by former employees who acted beyond the scope of their authority.
Like Bruce Nauman's «mental spaces,» the work in Emotional Management documents
several isolated incidents that mirror the complex, cyclical, and seemingly never - ending patterns of the human condition.
Excellent post Bettina — what an important point you make about these types of
isolated incidents creating negative perceptions of much - needed government child nutrition programs (not to mention the flaws in reporting these incidents that sometimes make them downright inaccurate).
Amboseli researchers witnessed two killing sprees of infants and unborn babies at the hands of separate males in the 1980s, but they were presumed to be
isolated incidents until now.
The media, however, should not go unmentioned, for it is also responsible for
escalating isolated incidents in a relentless way of creating hysteria among the public.
Proposals to restrict the sale and possession of these animals have largely been created in response to
isolated incidents around the country.
Hmmmmmmm... So does Digital Foundry need to recheck some resolutions for all launch games or is this just some
strange isolated incident?
By facing their demons (or their history as one), individuals will hopefully become more aware that these sort of troubling issues are in no
way isolated incidents from their own school days.
Likewise, there is case law in support of the view that «professional misconduct» will not
include isolated incidents of negligence unless they involve blatant disregard for a patient's well - being (see Reddoch v. Yukon Medical Council, 2001 YKCA 13, para. 60) or the negligence is of such a degree that it is «to be regarded as deplorable by a [registrant's] fellows in the profession» (see Laba v. Manitoba Dental Association, [1988] M.J. No. 673, para. 18).
If this is a
completely isolated incident between this employer and employee then I would suggest that she might have grounds for wrongful dismissal (in Canada).
«Bendgate» ended up being a
very isolated incident that affected only a few iPhone 6 Plus handsets, which were replaced by Apple.