This is a rare event, so the statisticians make no special adjustment for it.
The announcement produced what has become a rare event in Washington: A large, bipartisan majority of Congress agreeing on something.
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Snacking became a rare event because he knew he was eating fewer calories and wanted to make each calorie count.
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This team would do well when playing against teams consisting solely of left-handed hitters, but that would be a rare event.
The "pop" she felt in her neck the day before was her carotid artery tearing, a rare event called a carotid dissection.
This past week several such funds also saw their shares fall below the intrinsic value of their bullion holdings, a rare event.
They can't say what caused the memory loss and confusion, but it seems to be a class effect and a rare event.
Scientists said the incident was a rare event, both in terms of the size of the rock and the number of injuries it caused.
In the college-age population in general, moreover, homicide is the second leading cause of death, while on college campuses it remains a rare event.
The Labour AM for the Vale of Clwyd, Ann Jones has signed a letter of protest alongside AMs from the three other parties - a rare event indeed.
Is the appropriate response to accept that it was mere bad luck to run into such a rare event or to get new forecasting models that assume more storms in future?
We think of 12-year-old girls dying as being a rare event, but these reports are rare, considering that more than 10 million people have received Gardasil since it went on the market in 2006.
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It is a rare event, although the decision to bring MPs back has been taken four times during the past year, three times following the terror attacks on the US and once following the death of the Queen Mother.
"Even though crime is going down throughout our city and even though this is a rare event on a property like the National Zoo, the fact of the matter is youth violence in our city is way too high, " said D.
So when news programs and sites endlessly repeat the story from Aurora, with interviews with those in the theater, interviews with the families and commentary by anyone who has a point to make, we start to think this is something to fear, rather than a rare event that almost never happens and isn't worth worrying about.
So what was once a vanishingly rare event becomes a rare one, then a common one.
Det Sgt Morrison also agreed with a suggestion by Mr McSporran that the "occurrence of a murder" on Lewis was a "rare event".
It was a mild, sunny day--a fairly rare event for San Francisco--and people were out strolling, gardening or just sitting on their stoops.
Last year and earlier this year, the world's biggest and smelliest flower, the Amorphophallus titanum, attracted hundreds of visitors when it bloomed - a very rare event.
The ABI said the Riot Act rules provided a safety net for the underinsured and meant that premiums did not rise every year to cover for a relatively rare event.
"We'll have to get more selective, " says Taffet, while noting that the upcoming Oscar De La Hoya-Manny Pacquiao bout Dec. 6 is a rare boxing event that fits the pay-per-view bill.
Local bed and breakfast and lighthouse owner Frank Sheahan, who was one of the first on the scene, said the whale's end was sad, but he could understand why so many people had been to "a very rare event".
Compared to being Fooled By Randomness, the title of his first book, The Black Swan, a rare but powerful event, presents much greater a challenge.
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Entomologists at the museum have set up a mock crime scene - complete with arc-lights, screens, a (thankfully fake) decomposing corpse and plenty of writhing Greenbottle maggots - as part of Science Uncovered: A Europe-wide event offering the public a rare insight into what goes on behind the public galleries.
In the rare event a borrower went under, his land collateral was as good as gold anyway since legions of land-use restrictions acted as virtual government price supports.
When Greek and Italian debt yields started to spike we witnessed the rare event of a human-time-scale criticality.
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In the rare event of a filibuster, the motion to end debate was often filed jointly by leaders of both parties.
We spend hundreds of hours on board a variety of airplanes each year, most often en-route to a trade show or product launch event, but occasionally we have a rare opportunity to hop on board military aircraft, to test out unrelated products, or, even more unusually, to take a seat behind the yoke.
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