Sentence examples for error like a from inspiring English sources

Mr. Dorfman and others said accredited zoos had enough security measures in place to ensure that the only way a tiger was likely to escape was through human error, like a door left unlocked.

But Roddick seized on her error like a defense lawyer who had just spied a procedural error and refused to let go.

Officials in her office have said, for example, that she believes Florida law permits recounts only when there is a counting error, like a software malfunction, in voting machinery.

Eastern time yesterday, set in motion a chain of events that spread the error like a virus into the Gore campaign's inner sanctum and onto the front pages of many of the nation's newspapers.

Elsewhere, Jeffreys is a home-town booster (in "Roller Coaster Town," he notes that he was "born a thousand yards from the Cyclone"), a worried parent (in "Streetwise," he hopes that he has taught his daughter how to survive in the city), and a philosopher (in "The Beautiful Truth," he muses on the value of error, like a Zen Dylan).

One error, like a wrong date, can delay payment.

It might be a simple clerical error, like an incorrect address, or a doctor's use of the wrong diagnostic or treatment code for your treatment.

And where people do vote as someone they're not, the issue was usually a clerical error, like signing a voter roll on the wrong line, usually as a relative whose name would show up proximate to your own, rather than a vote by an illegible voter or a double vote by anyone.

"I know I didn't have much room for error being a rookie and then having a critical error like that, like a turnover.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party has challenged the validity of thousands of paper ballots cast in heavily Democratic election districts over errors like a signature that dips below the line, while in Republican strongholds, the Democrats are challenging far fewer ballots.

Some attribute that to surprising technical errors, like a grotesque overestimate of the amount of fissile material that was needed and a failure to realize that readily available graphite, if highly purified, could be used to moderate the atomic reaction instead of scarce, hard-to-get heavy water.