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Brad did a nice job of getting ahead in the count. Our defense was solid. We didn't commit an error ? it was a good effort.

Everything has to be so perfect. Our margin for error is so small that games like (Tuesday) are a perfect example of that.

Everything had to be done perfectly. There is no room for any error at all. Otherwise, it's not going to happen.

Even though we were in control of the match, it just seemed like we let them hang around and hang around. There were times where we stepped up and made plays, but a lot of times they would get close and then they would have a serving error or they would hit the ball into the net or something like that.

Every game (against Providence) we have to earn everything we get. Games are getting tighter, and the margin of error is very, very small and we know we can't take a shift off, let alone a period or a game.

as the result of a clerical error on our part. We have apologised to Boeing, their partner Bell and their advertising agency for this mistake. We accept full responsibility for the error.

A story told from an entirely alien point of view would read like one long typographical error and quickly lose the interest of any human reader.

At sub-65-nanometer dimensions, increased electrical noise and crosstalk will render on-chip bus structures useless. It will require a network with an error correction protocol.

DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace.

Driven up by relatively high medication and lab or test errors, at 34 percent, the spread between the United States and the countries with the lowest error rates was wide.

Error moves with quick feet and truthmust never be lagging behind.

Error moves with quick feet and truth must never be lagging behind.

Error is just as important a condition of life as truth

There's no room for error now. We've got to go out every night focused and not let up. And we've got to get that level of play from everyone.

There's no margin for error when you play them. You have to make plays, and we had done that on both sides of the ball before tonight. It's tough to consistently move the ball on them. We didn't handle their tackles at all.

There's no trial and error - this is a science. They study this day in and day out.

I understand that the directive may conflict with national laws, such as the German Constitution. There will be many more interesting twists and turns before it is put into full effect. Hopefully, for the sake of Europeans, it never will be. This shows how European law serves the interests of governments and bureaucrats much more than the European people. The error of entrusting privacy protection to government officials is becoming startlingly clear there.

The root cause of the intermittent access was an error in the database cluster. Salesforce.com addressed the issue with the database vendor. By Tuesday afternoon, the system was running normally for all users.

It would be a grave strategic error to announce a planned pullout. We need to stay in Iraq until there's a democracy and an established economy, ... Americans must have the will to stick out the effort in Iraq.

It was an error in judgment. He was caught up in something bigger than himself.

It was a human error on both ends of the deal - clerical errors, Based on what I know, it had nothing to do with it. This was an unfortunate error - some bad timing.

The Supreme Court found the error in decision-making at the Governor's level; it did not attach unconstitutionality to the steps taken by the Center.

I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high.

Prescriptions going to consumers is like money going to consumers. The margin for error is zero.

Rather than blindly insisting there is zero error in fingerprint matching, we should acknowledge the obvious, study the errors openly and find constructive ways to prevent faulty evidence from being used to convict innocent people.

People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it. It's in poor taste...People have a lot of information about themselves but staying objective is difficult. That's the trade-off in editing entries about yourself...If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

After reviewing Wednesday night's game film with members of my staff, I would like to apologize on behalf of UM Athletics for a critical scoring error that occurred late in the contest.

The one big strategic error -- which was a political error and an economic error of grand proportions -- was the prescription drug bill.

So, we just went through a process of trial and error to get it to do what we wanted. Next time, we'll make the engine more fire-like.

Defensively, we didn't help our pitcher out. She made a lot of nice pitches and we either made an error or made a mental error and we just have to work on that. It's early in the season.

Any emerging technology should find its way into the market by the trial and error of multiple solutions. Early in a market's development, companies whose proprietary solutions don't rely on external integration are often more successful than those that must agree with other players in the sector.

An error started the inning and then we give up an infield single. Then before you know it, it's 6-0.

An error on the part of poll workers pressing the wrong button to activate voting machines prevented many from voting in the Democratic primaries.

Any of those races that hinge on a real or alleged error could throw us into the same kind of electoral overtime that we first saw in November 2000.

As far as I'm concerned, the case is closed. I want everybody to remember who made the factual error and refused to correct it.

As good an offense as ours, we're going up against (one) so there's less margin for error than there has been. I'll be ready.

As deep as their outfield was playing there, you've got to take a shot to score there. I'd rather make an error of aggression than passivity.

The bottom line is that automation lowers the risk of human error and adds some intelligence to the enterprise system.

A very popular error -- having the courage of one's convictions; Rather, it is a matter of having the courage for an attack upon one's convictions.

Audrey (starting pitcher Decker) had a a rough start. She should have been down 1-0 instead of 4-0 at the end of the second. An error cost us three runs.

Bad service is something everyone can relate to -- we've all had an experience with an obnoxious employee or had to call to correct an error on a bill. What we often can't relate to is the great way a company recovers from a service failure and wins our future business.

That's mainly an instance in which the telephone company hooked us up to the wrong number or a clerical error here gives us the wrong number,

The U.S. State Department has a consistent record of error in the assessment of Asian situations and judging Red Chinese intentions.

The whole day we were behind the whole time. We're just finding ways to lose which is really frustrating as a coach. We're not pitching very good at all, and we're not getting that timely hit. We make an error at the most inopportune time. Right now everything is going against us.

The White Sox (early 60s) are rightly called the 'Hitless Wonders' -- their idea of offense is a walk, an error and a hurricane.

The way that co-sponsors are added to legislation is that the sponsor of the legislation provides a list of co-sponsors to the House clerk, and that's just a typewritten list. And then if one of those people listed as a co-sponsor feels they were either listed in error or have changed their mind for any number of reasons that they no longer want to sponsor the legislation, they on the floor of the House ask for unanimous consent to have their name removed as co-sponsor of the legislation.

This course is very tight. The margin for error is so small here.

This flaw is not as critical as some because it can only be exploited on the local network and even if it is compromised, the error would only be able to crash the server, not expose the data or put information at risk. Basically, someone on the local network could crash the machine running the software. It doesn't allow for any kind of actual access to the machine or to the data.

This is a case where the Bush administration doesn't need to spell out what they did and why they did it. It's as plain as a wart on the nose of a Miss America. Any attempt by Bush's spokespeople to present this as anything other than an admission of error will be laughed out of the public square.

They put the ball in play against us. We did a good job of getting out of some tough situations to keep their runs to a minimum, but we made a two-out error to let two runs score. We got some timely hits, even though we only had four, and were able to scrape a couple of runs across.

A lot of people made the assumption that it was in the bank, but it wasn't. I thought Jeremy handled the pressure extraordinarily well. His run was quite good, he just made a little error and it ended up costing us.

They made plays and we didn't. Right now, we have a very small margin of error because we're shooting the ball horribly. We've done it now for three straight games.

They played great and we didn't give them much of a game tonight. Our margin for error is slim. We can't have any slippage. Our rebounding was a disappointment. We've got to do better.

They got on us early and just kept getting base hits. We only had one error the whole game.

They gave him an error on that? That was a tough play. The ball was going away from him. How we were able to get three runs in that inning was hard to understand for us. But I don't think he was rattled after that play. When you're a closer, you've probably seen worse things that that.

They had that one inning on us. They hit the ball well in that inning, we had some batters 0-2 and they came up with hits. We had that one error and that really kind of opened up the flood gates. They just executed. Take away that one inning, and we're right there.

They don't go through the grind others do defensively, diving after balls, chasing balls, if you make an error how it might affect you next at bat. If you're a DH you don't go through any of that. You just hit. So as good a hitter as he is, and he's one of the best in the game, no question, I can never vote for him. That's all.

They had one error and five walks in that first inning. It was hard to adjust to Paint Valley's pitchers tonight, but I thought we did a good job. We didn't strike out at all tonight, which is a good thing to see.

They had one big inning. We had a walk and an error and the wheels fell off for us. It was a 4-3 game at that point. Christi ran out of gas a little. Take away the walk and the error and that changes everything.

There were a number of points where this could have been prevented. In this incident, there were a series of lapses. The one thing that is evident about this incident is that it is 100 percent human error and absolutely could have been avoided.

There were actually more than 950 different medications recorded in these error reports.

There's a lot of evidence that some of those fears are coming to pass. The theory that new technology results in error seems to be borne out early in the process.

There's a lot more room for error in drama. With comedy, if you mess up, you fall flat on your face. With drama there's a lot more room to play.

There's a little more margin for error this year. Last year, it felt like we had to win every game. That wasn't a lot of fun.

This is the lowest it's got to be. The last two weeks have been really tough on us. We've dug ourselves a big hole as far as the playoff race is concerned and we've got to rebound. . . . There is no more room for error here.

They're a great team, You can't give them anything. So any kind of walk or error gives them that opportunity. And one-through-nine they're tough.

They're a good team. Still, we feel we could have played better than we did. We had no room for error and we didn't execute the way we needed to.

There's a lot of pressure every time we lose a game. We don't have a lot of room for error right now. I think we've got to get to 41 wins, and every loss is a lot of pressure on us. We've got to win 14 more games, I believe, for us to make the playoffs.

There's a missing 'r' in the critical word 'pantry,' ... I feel it essential to confront this error head on and set the record straight. I have never, in all our years of marriage, come across my wife with cheddar cheese in her pantry without the 'r.'

As we continue to use more gasoline in California, that margin of error gets tighter each year.

It's a big blow, no question. Our margin for error defensively has gone down.

It was a lot of trial and error trying to figure out how to best train him. At first, we didn't want him to strain too much, so we put him on the bike. He just wants to be part of the guys and do the same thing they do.

It's a great error to think it's not going to be hard. You are going to bust your rear end.

It's tough to go on the road and not make your free throws and have unforced turnovers. Our margin of error is too small for that to happen.

It's trial by error and hopefully you work with directors who can modulate your performance and that's really the key.

It's not so much how much money you have to spend, it's how you spend it. How effective can you be in allocating those dollars, ... Obviously we don't have the margin for error like the Yankees do, but I think we're on our way here.

For every road win, you have that much more margin of error at home. Since we don't have any, those home games are significant.

It looks like he tried to hide from the fire in a back room and that turned out to be a fatal error because the apartment filled with smoke and he was overcome.

It looks like he fell asleep. We're looking at human error as the cause.

It shows you how small the margin of error is. In this league, you can't miss by much. I needed to stand up and stop the bleeding and make a play and didn't do that.

It's been a long time since I've had an error and then committing two in one day is frustrating,

It's great. I like the way it is now. You have to have room for error to make mistakes to be better next time around.

Do not be misled into error and loss. The time will soon come when this huge building or even vaster ones will be too small for the gathering of those who are called to this place.

Do I believe our margin for error is tiny? Yes, it is tiny. Can we survive injuries like the larger market teams? No, we can't. But if you're a competitive person, you have to believe you can win to do this job.

That means that the patient either ended up with permanent harm or the error caused the patient to receive some sort of heroic intervention necessary to save life, such as CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) or surgery.

That is like stealing from the store. The chopper over the middle that they made the first error on gave us a chance and then we were able to come up with some big two out hits.

That's a big error to assume that there's any tension between the two, that it's experts vs. community. There are experts in the community.

It's like in Monopoly, when you get a bank error in your favor. We don't get them often.

The biggest mistake in my life was hiring Eaton as chairman without checking him out first, ... I didn't know him and hired the wrong guy, an error of judgment. When you make a bad people choice it hurts a lot of people for a long time.

Still later that night, ... another series of confusions took place -- including what at this juncture appears to be a very significant computer error made by the Volusia County Elections Department -- which led to another series of bad calls by television networks and newspapers across the nation.

That is such a huge level of fraud and error and waste that we believe the (IRS) should be overhauled now,

It's a massive game. It's probably the most important game that we've played all year long. We really now have no margin for error at all. So we've got to go on the road and play well and we really need to win. There's really no ifs ands or buts about it. We really have to go and play well and win a game, which we're certainly capable of doing.

It was nice for our pitchers to be able to breathe, and give them more margin of error to work with.

No matter what the error was or the problem was, it didn't phase us. We continued to roll and play our game. It didn't matter. We just stayed focused and played.

It was a comedy of errors, ... She's definitely a good player but I don't think she came out there and beat me. I just kept making error after error.

It was a clerical error in the transcription of numbers.

It's vital. It's gonna be our season, ... We have to play better than everyone else. Our margin of error is not like other teams.

It's tough. I feel worse for my family and my crew than I do for myself. It was driver error on that one. I've got to keep it out of the garbage. There is an edge out there (outside the second groove of racing), and I drifted up after passing the lap car. You get two tires in there (loose rubber, or marbles as it's called), then four tires in the garbage and there is nothing you can do.

They beat us because we made an error back there around the goal. It was the goalie's ball, but we all made mistakes. Hopefully, we can come back and get a win Tuesday.

They beat us because we made an error back there around the goal, ... It was the goalie's ball, but we all made mistakes. Hopefully, we can come back and get a win Tuesday.