Sentence examples for a one-off case from inspiring English sources

Yet the Government insists that this was a one-off case and has refused so far to relent on their myopic stance.

It was a one-off case".

After all, this is hardly a one-off case.

The seven-month bombing campaign over Libya was a one-off case, the institute said.

Mr Hinchliff told the inquest: "This is not a one-off case and it needs bringing to the public's attention".

Well yes, Greece has been threatened with deep EU interference in its finances, but that is a one-off case.

While many of these officials have written off the Mora case as a one-off example of incompetent legal work, others in Costa Rica say the case's result points to larger issues that foster impunity in cases involving environmentalists.

It was a very one-off case".

It is important to stress here that the kind of scenario under discussion remains that of the one-off case of torture in an emergency situation; what is not under consideration in this section is legalised, or otherwise institutionalised, torture.

Here we must distinguish between one-off cases of torture, on the one hand, and legalised or institutionalised torture, on the other.

I will shortly present arguments to the effect that while there may well be morally justifiable one-off cases of torturing the guilty, it does not follow that torture should ever be legalised, even in such cases.