Sentences with phrase «accident of history»
If they had justified their existence merely as accidents of history rather than through particular identities and focused on good governance, they may well have emerged as stable and prosperous entities.
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I was delighted to discover the most fertile farmland coincided with some of the cheapest farmland globally, a happy accident of history!
It was inconceivable to Luke that Peter or any primitive Christian could have — postresurrection and post-Pentecost — viewed the cross as a mere accident of history.
Evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould is famous for describing the evolution of humans and other conscious beings as a chance accident of history.
We will probably have far fewer things to buy, and the shopping frenzy that has occupied the forefront of our economic scene will come to seem a strange accident of history.»
Over time, this enjoyment turned into entitlement, and the idea such affluence was (to a fair extent) a happy accident of history was conveniently forgotten.
Its standardization was «an accident of history,» said Straubel.
«It's an accident of history that put me here,» Windsor said after she won her case.
He answered: «It is an accident of history that set up this apparent conflict between science and religion.
I shared the reservations of Elton Trueblood, who wrote of exclusivism: «Such a scheme is neat and simple, but it is morally shocking... A God who would thus play favorites with his children, condemning some to eternal separation from himself while admitting others, and distinguishing them wholly or chiefly on the basis of the accidents of history or geography, over which they had no control, would be more devil than God.»
Failure to develop strong centralized structures can be attributed to polity (particularly among the Baptists), accidents of history, patterns of church growth, migration to the cities by rural blacks and, most critically, lack of money.
An accident of history has put us all at cross purposes.
It is also related to the accidents of history, For example, the art called «early Christian,» some of which dates from as late as 400 AD., was stylistically dependent on the art of late antiquity.
Every life is shaped by the struggle for survival, the accidents of history, and the power of cultural symbols and traditions.
That black people hate themselves is no accident of history.
Furthermore, the Church's unity is not arbitrary or contingent upon the accidents of history.
And an old historical relativist perspective reminds me that, like most Christians, my being such is an accident of history and biology just as accidents of history determine other religious traditions and who belongs to them.
He develops four elements: (a) «the capacity for intentional action» (which is similar to my category of proficiency); (b) «involvement with the affections and passions» (my category of mood); (c) «subjection to the accidents of history» (crisis and integration); (d) «the capacity of the heart» (my category of hope).
Trump, Brexit, and the counter-revolutionary insurgence against liberal values are not an accident of history.
The administration said the changes in accounting for the STAR program would rectify an «accident of history» in which the STAR credits are the only state tax credits recorded as expenditures in the annual budget.
«This is not an accident of history,» he wrote.
The way we live is mostly down to accidents of history.
Starting over: Rebuilding civilisation from scratch The way we live is mostly down to accidents of history.
«It was probably just an accident of history that I happened to be there.»
The school district monopoly over public education facilities is an accident of history.
«The school district monopoly over public education facilities is an accident of history,» writes Nelson Smith, one that would not have happened «if there had been more than one choice of provider when the laws were being written.»
And while concluding that the union's days of dominance are numbered, he emphasizes that this is only due to the confluence of «fantastically powerful» forces, a «lining up of the stars,» and an «accident of history.»
It means that «a school in one part of the country could receive over 50 % more than an identical school with exactly the same children, simply because of an accident of history».
A: That's mostly an accident of history.
Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised that the most fertile farmland areas in the world coincide with some of the cheapest farmland globally, a happy accident of history I guess.
Alaska Airlines is currently the largest carrier between the west coast and the islands, but it's mostly an accident of history as they took advantage of the gap created by Aloha Air and ATA.
Kristina Van Dyke, co-curator of «Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art» currently on display at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation through March 19, describes the discovery of the Kota reliquary figures and their naming as an «accident of history.»
The initial picture presented by Marvel et al (founded on incorrect Fi value for CO2) was that the WMGHG results were basically in line with CO2 - only response, and the historical run was a low outlier — giving rise to the paper's argument that observation - derived TCR values would be biased low because of this «accident of history».
The «accident of history» is that the more efficient forcings happen to be those that have had a cooling effect on temperatures in recent decades, while the less efficient forcings happen to be those that have caused warming.
Climate sensitivities estimated from recent observations will therefore be biased low in comparison with CO2 - only simulations owing to an accident of history
This crisis is neither the result of a normal turn of the business cycle nor an accident of history, we arrived at this point as a result of an era of profound irresponsibility that engulfed both private and public institutions from some of our largest companies» executive suites to the seats of power in Washington, D.C.
Marvel et al argue that by «an accident of history» the apparent summed forcings are higher than they would be if all of the forcings were expressed in terms of their equivalence to CO2 forcings.