Humanity even in its current state has to be able to police itself, though the occasions where such actions are needed are thankfully rare.

Aside from the thankfully rare cases in which a swarm will kill, the Africanized bees can certainly be a nuisance.

Matters such as this are thankfully rare.

However, I repeat that aviation is the safest form of public transport and accidents, however tragic, are thankfully rare.

Last night, just before midnight, there was a thankfully rare event: a total outage of all BBC websites.

Although such excursions into psychobabble are thankfully rare, the book suffers from Mr. Shoumatoff's self-absorption.

Such missteps, reminiscent of the snarky tone that intruded in the author's 1998 novel "The Silver Castle" are thankfully rare.

For more information on this very real, but thankfully rare, syndrome, check out the Web site of the National Necrotizing Fasciitis Foundation at: http://nnff.org.

The Dangers of Blood Clots Though thankfully rare, clots can form in varicose veins.

Recently a French girl who was the victim of a (thankfully rare) brutal attack on the Guernsey cliffs was transported to intensive care facilities in this way.