And you may feel led to help those in need personally even when the need is an isolated event.

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Without Graham, the Vioxx debacle might have been seen as an isolated event.

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And so we should not regard this conference as an isolated event to be held in June in Rio de Janeiro.

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The California action seems more like an isolated event rather than a part of whatever multi-state crusade New Mexico official Korsmo may be involved in.

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One kernel pops, but it seems to be an isolated event.

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The episode on Saturday was not an isolated event.

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Working out whether a default in a portfolio is likely to be an isolated event, or is a harbinger of more to come, is especially tricky, not least because data on credit defaults are relatively sparse.

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"We are very angry about it, " he said of the incident, without providing many more details except to say it was an isolated event but may have gone back to the first or even the fourth quarter.

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EGYPT'S TRANSFORMATION is not an isolated event.

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Aurora wasn't an isolated event.

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The prosecution claimed the toddler's injuries were not an "isolated event" and that he had been ill-treated for months.

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