special case

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But as people who shared the experience of being “mocked and feared, blamed and banished, envied and imitated,” often allied, sometimes antagonists, theirs is a special case.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet the persecution of Pastor Jin and others must not be seen as a special case.

From The Wall Street Journal

Britain, or “England,” the word he almost always uses in his overheated tweets, is clearly a special case.

From Salon

Reagan says some companies had been "engaging in unfair trade practices" and going against an agreement with the US - and that this was therefore a "special case".

From BBC

A special case review audit found that when the patient's mother said he was not responding, it would have been appropriate for the emergency medical dispatcher to clarify if the patient was awake, which could have triggered a different response.

From BBC