Sentence examples for One-off mistake from inspiring English sources

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"We are talking here not about a one-off mistake but a whole chain of errors," he said.

José Mourinho insists there are no divers at Chelsea and that Oscar made a one-off mistake at Southampton on Wednesday when he was booked for simulation.

Not right now, but it's there which means the GSM Pre we saw at MWC isn't a one-off mistake.

Curda also added: "For the record I don't have a drinking problem, this was a one-off mistake.

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Scipione said the scheme allowed young people who have made "one-off mistakes" to escape a lifelong conviction.

For what is considered a one-off error – and cases of mistaken identity remain rare – the favoured tactic is for the official to "get back on the horse" at the first opportunity.

Eileen Gallagher, chief executive of Shed Productions, the company behind Footballers' Wives says: "I don't think this is endemic of the industry at all, it's a one-off, big mistake that shouldn't be conflated with the premium phone line row.

The others on the list either live in the limbo of denial, still claiming a botched sample or the wrong kind of herbal tea or a physiological freak; or they are happy to comfort themselves - and their sport - with a partial truth: what they did was a one-off, a mistake, not a habit, not a regime, it wasn't them, not really.

In the vast majority of cases, this isn't inherited and is simply the result of a one-off genetic mistake in the sperm or egg .Because chromosomal disorders often result in problems with the heart, Jonas had to have open-heart surgery before he had reached the age of one.

Otherwise, they are the ones who know her best; if they are as shocked as you are then this shows you that she has not done this before and it could very well be a one-off honest mistake.

Before the Ferguson protests even began last year, hundreds of Chicago police officers became a news story themselves ― and not for the kind of one-off, career-ending mistakes Emanuel evoked, but for serial misconduct.

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