HSBC, the London-based bank, said yesterday that it would shut its Decision One Mortgage division, lay off 750 people and take a charge of $945 million.
"Let me be very clear, we will need to continue to monitor developments in this area also in the future… This will not be one off decision.
But at the same time, some apps were getting a pass — as if Apple is making its decisions on a one-off basis.
The opponents of quotas insist last month's decision was a one-off.
"Careers are no longer a 'for life' prospect, so career decisions are not one-off events.
Both Chinese firms are waiting for the government panel's decision and CFIUS experts see the Ralls case as a one-off decision.
What differentiates Safari Reader from the likes of Adblock Plus, if Wired's Epicenter blog has it right, is that you have to press the button each time you want to make those annoying/revenue-critical "distractions" disappear, on each new page, rather than making a one-off decision to banish ads.
In public appearances, Antonin Scalia, a member of the majority in Bush v. Gore, regularly offers this message to people who question him about the decision: "Get over it!" Even at the time, Bush v. Gore was treated as a kind of novelty item, a one-off decision that applied only to the peculiar facts then before the Justices.
Nick Poyntz-Wrigheadhead of life insurance at the FSA, said: "An annuity purchase is an important one-off decision that has long-term consequences for individuals if they get it wrong.
Abbott's decision to allow a one-off intake of 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees over and above the existing humanitarian intake was, in many ways, initiated by the public.
This decision, combined with a one-off gain of €534m from a physical inventory of EDF's assets, produced the whole of the increase in EDF's operating profits in 2003, which were €6.83 billion, compared with a pro-forma €5.15 billion in 2002.This increase is dwarfed by one significant omission in EDF's adoption of the international accounting standards: the standard on employee benefits.
