Sentence examples for isolated occasions from inspiring English sources

For there have been a few, isolated occasions when I have been scared out of my cucumber-cool skin by what was happening on a stage.

"And I think if on isolated occasions managers, they lose their emotional control and they have a certain behaviour that cannot be accepted by the authorities, in this case by the refs, I think we should be punished.

It is often said that in the earlier operas, too, choruses and other numbers calling for liberation or revolt were taken metaphorically as revolutionary rallying cries, and evidently this did happen on isolated occasions.

Christopher Cowdray, the hotel's general manager, said: 'On the isolated occasions when a matter has been brought to our attention, we have taken the relevant action immediately.' Last year inspectors found legionella bacteria in four rooms at the Savoy in the Strand.

But while hundreds of species have been documented doing it on isolated occasions, only a handful have made it a habitual part of their lives, says Vasey.

The term has been used previously on only several other isolated occasions [2, 3], but if existing research is surveyed for studies that fit this definition, an appreciable body of knowledge emerges.

If this were an isolated occasion, I could accept your apology at face value.

They did so, it would seem, not just on one isolated occasion but consistently, over a period of two months.

Siddiqi's story and others like it involving incidents from the end of the 2001 war to the present day indicate that what has been happening in Abu Ghraib is not an isolated occasion of rogue junior soldiers acting independently, but part of an apparent strategy of interrogation that was in place long before the invasion of Iraq.

This large value for NT{A},E in Wuhan when 30 °C ≤  Temp < 35 °C was recorded on only one isolated occasion in July 2010 (Fig.  4b).

This research was designed as an exploratory study conducted over a single five day period at a series of patient support centres with participants completing a questionnaire on an isolated occasion.