Sentences with phrase «isolated instances»

That is impossible in biology; we can not isolate instances of «evolution» in the laboratory and test them.

Test scores only improve in isolated instances, unless there is a school culture where asking for help, collaborating, and learning from each other in order to improve instruction becomes the norm.

These are not isolated instances nor are they limited to «mom and pop» charter schools.

It may be nothing — and in fact isolated instances (your child is unable to climb stairs, but does everything else well) usually aren't anything to worry about.

Are we likely to see many instances where there is one isolated instance of wrongdoing?

(Her proposal came after a few isolated instances of some Italian parents not properly feeding their children a balanced vegan diet.)

Sure I came across a few isolated instances where the frame - rate dipped a little, but I have yet to see it drop down to single digits like some other outlets have reported.

«Occasional practice working individually; in pristine, quiet settings; and under the pressure of limited time will normalize those conditions so that students do not experience them only as isolated instances that occur once or twice a year.

In fact, the FHA expressly instructs lenders to consider a borrower's complete credit history — not just isolated instances of bad financial luck or an occasional late payment.

But this is an increasingly isolated instance.

While his efforts to hone efficiency could be seen as admirable, these overly - repetitive tasks did not encourage understanding, and placed too much of an incentive on isolated instances, instead of the larger picture.

One such pattern stipulates that revolutions are rarely isolated instances but come in waves, while another points to social and economic inequalities as root causes for violent upheavals.

Don't look at isolated instances of high performers, but instead, observe what most of the greats do and mimic these behaviors.

reserve fasted exercise for high calorie, high fat intake isolated instances of overindulging

The very worst cases involved isolated instances of kidnapping and baby - buying, with birth parents pressured or tricked into relinquishing their children.

In certain isolated instances, such as the one near Houston, two big developers might form joint ventures because one of them holds a better site while the other wields more power with retailers.

The term «moderate Republican» has become, except in isolated instances, an oxymoron.

However, a total of 139 repetitions of this ad were found (see Table 3), indicating that the problem was more extensive than a few isolated instances.

These Johannine passages are not isolated instances; the kerygma of the synoptic gospels, to say nothing of St. Paul, proclaims the coming of God.

Parents should respond to isolated instances of lying by talking with their child about the importance of truthfulness, honesty, and trust.

He genuinely believed that it was all just a series of isolated instances.

This terrible extreme was not an isolated instance, for I subsequently heard similar statements many times.

Setting aside the grim irony that Anne Frank never got to come home from her camp (how I wish writers would quit appropriating Anne Frank for their own agendas), it's worth noting too that this pushy narcissism isn't an isolated instance.

To perform the analysis, we isolated each instance of a college team playing a bowl game with a new head coach and compiled the results (since 2005) in the table below:

Hopefully they are isolated instances and UCLA baseball does not move into the «Jorge zone» this season.

If your child is struggling, and you suspect a pattern of difficulties rather than an isolated instance, speak first with your child's teacher and other school authorities about your concerns and to set up learning disability testing.

Double voting occurs in isolated instances and often involves absentee ballots.

«I think you had some isolated instances around the system where trains are stuck,» insisted MTA chief Jay Walder, an appointee of Gov. David Paterson.

It's also a trait that, if left unchecked, may (and have in isolated instances) lead to plutocracy.

The Milwaukee metro residential market is a long way from returning to pre-recession status, but there are isolated instances of success worth noting.

«Given the technical nature of the charge, there was no viable defense,» Brafman said in a prepared statement, expressing hope that the court would «recognize Mr. D'Souza to be a fundamentally honorable man who should not be imprisoned for what was an isolated instance of wrongdoing in an otherwise productive and responsible life.»

«It would be of little importance for the general provision of scientific advice in RFMOs if this was an isolated instance but it is the experience of the author that failure to respect the demarcation between political and scientific process of RFMOs is relatively common,» writes Polacheck.

(7) Information to provide proper perspective for judging the prevalence and consequences of the audit findings, such as whether the audit findings represent an isolated instance or a systemic problem.

Is this an isolated instance, or are their other observed records with show signs of trends opposite than the reconstruction produces?

These two isolated instances were unfortunate, and we will of course be working with the vendors to limit the chance of this happening again.»

In a few isolated instances, exclusive publisher deals have prohibited Barnes & Noble from selling certain eBooks, preventing millions of our digital customers from access to those titles.

Fortunately, FHA underwriters are guided by rules that say a mortgage applicant's overall pattern of payment is more important than a few isolated instances.

Hyperactivity in dogs (sometimes referred to by scientists as hyperkinesis in dogs, and by pet owners as ADHD in dogs) is characterized by several factors, either isolated instances or a combination of:

Like you, your companion animal's body is subject to fluctuations that may mean an isolated instance of house soiling.

The Menu Foods wheat gluten is no longer an isolated instance.

There are isolated instances in which a local infection or inflammation can be eliminated with medication.

That said, I could also see the reverse being a slippery slope of mods counting against a game's ESRB rating, which has some precedence in isolated instances.

Apparently this is their routine standard operating procedure (sop) for handling requests for crap, which does leave open questions about the amount of crap routinely produced by his institution or if this is just an isolated instance of crap.

But like many researchers, he does not think the isolated instances where science has stumbled erase the overwhelming evidence that the planet is warming.