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The difference is due to a drafting error and will be corrected legislatively before July 1.

The first time I saw a poll in this election, they had me at 4 percent. That's the good news. The bad news was that the margin of error was 5 percent. I'd like to think that meant I was at 9 percent.

the central error was that we used weaponry that anyone involved in the decision-making process should have known could harm innocent people living in the area.

The car was working well and looking at the data we were getting faster and faster but it was just a little bit of pilot error going into turn nine. I broke a little late and had too much speed and I slid out and tapped the wall.

This is a great error of judgment and the country will pay for this for decades.

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.

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.'

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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

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.

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.

We were playing some of the best big schools in Michigan, and except for a few errors, we really played OK. When you make an error against a good team, they make you pay for it. We learned some good lessons.

We were playing with a really small margin of error for the longest time and one little non-perfect hockey game really set us back. It's a game of inches and a couple games ago we lost a foot.

We were playing with a really small margin of error for the longest time. We needed a minor miracle.

We had the error with two outs there that should have ended the inning, but other than that I believe we're getting better with every pitch defensively.

We had the game within our grasp. We made our only error in the second half and it cost us.

We in New York chose effective law enforcement and disregarded the respect for civil rights and civil liberties. We chose the former over the latter. That was a colossal error in judgment.

We got lucky, it's as simple as that. You win some, you lose some. I've seen that shot by Smith go in many, many times, and we got lucky because we made an error in coverage.

We got men on base, via walk or an error or the base knock that last inning. We just couldn't do anything with it.

We got some areas and techniques we need to clean up. We played 29 kids who all contributed at some point, but there is no room for error with district play next week.

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

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

This was where the closeness of the competition was really showcased as every small error made the difference as to how you placed.

We knew coming in that our margin of error was slim. We wanted to play more zone but their outside shooting prevented that. Our turnovers in the first half and the first five minutes of the second half were the keys to the game.

We just don't have a lot of people who can score with the basketball and we've struggled to get that done. Our margin for error is not great.

We go into every game to win. I think we are a solid team when the right people are on the mound. I expect our guys to play hard but we need to continue to progress and we aren't a team that can just walk on the field and things will just happen for us. We have to play intelligent and have to pitch well and play error free.

This was the kind of game that eats you up. We were ahead 6-3 and an error made the difference.

This was the team I always had confidence in. The starting rotation finally fell in line the way it was supposed to, the defense played error free today and the lineup was unstoppable.

This team is making me look good right now. We had no choice. We had no margin of error and, honestly, because we had seen everybody. We saw what they had, and we saw what we had, and we knew we were the better team.

We weren't in trouble at all the whole match. We only had one serve-receive error and not many hitting errors. We didn't struggle anywhere.

We tried to leave the guards out there, but unfortunately, Sweden didn't make an error in the last end.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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He's obviously a big key for us. We have a smaller margin of error with Richard out, but we still have plenty of weapons to where we can win games.

If I err in my belief that the souls of men are immortal, I err gladly, and do not wish to lose so delightful an error

I do think Kurt deserves the right to see what he can do. Our room for error is not very good. We can't afford to have the interceptions and those kinds of things.

I'd say both of those numbers are, in terms of a $20-million budget, pretty much right on. But a very small difference one way in tax revenue and the other way in expenditures and we're out nearly $56,000 of our reserves. The margin of error is just too small.

I don't think we can change the error that has taken place by changing the zoning.

He reacts the way Jeter did 10 years ago. If he makes an error or makes a bad play on the bases, he doesn't let it affect him.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

And boy were we incensed because it's embarrassing to see that. That was a defensive error in coverage and believe me we blasted them for that.

You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

It is a general error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare

The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament.)

Was I to believe him in earnest in his intention to penetrate to the centre of this massive globe? Had I been listening to the mad speculations of a lunatic, or to the scientific conclusions of a lofty genius? Where did truth stop? Where did error begin?

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form let them stand undisturbed as monuments to the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it

Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected -- for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error

The most powerful cause of error is the war existing between the senses and reason

Their lives were ruined,he thought; ruined by the fundamental error of their matrimonial union: that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling . . .

It is the very error of the moon;She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,And drives men mad.

I believe in the fundamental Truth of all the great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God given. I came to the conclusion long ago... that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them.

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.