Sentences with phrase «by the accidents of»

In particular they will, by the accidents of personal history, if by nothing else, have been located on one side or the other of social and economic conflicts that have an extended history and are broadly systemic to their society.

Status should be determined by function rather than by accident of birth or fortune or by success in the struggle for prestige.

Furthermore, angry rhetoric — especially directed these days against human beings who by the accidents of birth happen to be Americans, white and male — never solves any of the problems.

It is an odd fate for a seventeenth - century Dutch philosopher who adopted an impersonal more geometrico style in his writing, one determined by the accident of his Jewish birth and his exodus, as a young man, from the Jewish community of Amsterdam.

It emerges among the ancient Israelites, one may insist, as a kind of mechanical achievement wrought by the accidents of history.

Yet, sadly, it seems not to occur to many such persons that had they, by accident of birth, been reared in a different faith culture they might well believe just as passionately in a different «one true faith» that today is totally alien to them.

Whether it's Shankill Road or Bradford, many peoples» fate is arguably determined by the accident of birth.

With a moratorium on new life peers, 46 new directly elected «senators» would represent barely 6 % of the House, merely a quarter of the number appointed in this parliament and exactly half those there by accident of birth.

The Lords used to contain mostly hereditary peers, people who inherited their seats by an accident of birth.

After his retirement from Tohoku University in 2012, he moved to Maui to complete a 60 cm telescope moving the project from Tohoku University's Iitate observatory, which has been contaminated with radiation by the accident of nuclear reactor in March 2011, to Haleakala summit.

There is no escaping it: whether by accident of timing or by design of purpose, this was the formative film of the Seventies, and no film that followed it was unaffected.

She inherits a stone of power (by accident of course), which enlists her in the great order of the Stonekeepers.

Put simply: Equality of opportunity demands that children should not be penalized — or advantaged — by the accident of their birth.

The novel is publicized as a «tour de force about the dislocations wrought in our lives by accidents of fate and time,» and in this case, the accident is a terrorist bombing of a train.

Janet Lowe's book on his life is more comprehensive on his later days... even Alice Schroeder gives us more on his later life by accident of covering Buffett.

To be honest, I don't think many Danes would hurt that butterfly, except by accident of course.

While it interests me that working this way speaks directly to technical and historical photographic processes, I'm most excited by the accidents of the resulting images: the movement in between my three frames, and the mis - registered overlapping... Outside of the reasons this process was originally developed, mainly a solution to reproduce the world's color, I'm looking for: unseeable squirming, shifting, and growth, arms flailing in ecstasy, or light slowly moving across our walls.

You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.»

As conditions change, those corals that by an accident of genetic inheritance have the traits needed to cope with environmental challenge will get a foothold, and flourish.

Whether you utilize the MBTA on a daily basis or only on occasion, the potential risk of injury is ever present, as evidenced by accidents of the past.

Yet in each case, the formal structure of the law text is set by accidents of legal history.

Israel, started with the best of intentions, now - it suffers under an dehumanizing theocratic apartheid system in which over half its people are banned from voting by accident of their birth.

Rest of the auto insurance in the market provides only some minor damages on the vehicle such as minor scratches and dents on the cars caused by the accident of the policy holders of the car insurance policy.

If you've ever dealt with a PEBKAC problem, you know the majority of technical issues happen not by some accident of programming or hardware failure, but by human error.

These requirements impose the burden of determining continuity of existence of their native title rights and interests upon the applicants at least by inference or extrapolation from various kinds of evidence... If by accident of history and the pressure of colonisation there has been dispersal of a society and an interruption of its observance of traditional law and custom, then the most sincere attempts at the reconstruction of that society and the revival of its law and custom seem to be of no avail.

Not exact matches

Combining the traditional world of shipping with the new world of data, it helps governments reduce the trafficking of arms, drugs and people; and saves lives by predicting and preventing accidents.

Given the organic way Axiom Zen operates, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that ZenHub developed by accident.

Outside of factories, these sensors have been used by high - speed train drivers to prevent accidents.

Former Liberal Party WA president David Honey's convincing by - election victory in the blue ribbon seat of Cottesloe was no accident; the strong Liberal showing was more than a year in the planning.

In the paper, called «Death by Pokemon Go: The Economic and Human Cost of Using Apps While Driving,» the scientists examined police accident reports in Tippecanoe County, Indiana in the 148 days after the game's release.

The company followed up a couple of hours later, however, and said the incident was caused by a «customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day of work,» suggesting it might not have been an accident.

Feinberg, who most recently advised on compensation issues related to the Boston Marathon bombing, was hired by GM as a consultant to advise the automaker how to respond to families of accident victims whose vehicles are being recalled for possible ignition switch defects.

Just 10 per cent of fatal accidents occur at that point, according to a safety analysis by Boeing.

Hutchins made headlines in May when he stopped the spread of the WannaCry by accident.

The Japanese researcher has developed — by accident — a new type of glass that can be repaired simply by pressing it back together after it has cracked.

On July 25, a forum user posted a photo of a handout obtained from a local Cineplex theatre, adding that «they probably had them out by accident since the URL on it doesn't work yet.»

As it turned out, there were swaths of new - employee knowledge that she stumbled upon by accident.

According to People, Zoe Saldana came to the aid an elderly woman who was injured in a car accident by helping her out of the car and calling 911.

«In the end Gosnell was only caught by accident, when police raided his offices to seize evidence of his illegal prescription selling,» the report stated.

Like penicillin and saccharine, it was the product of a laboratory accident, invented by mistake.

Nestle's nationwide chain of cafes is inspired by the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Mass., where a chef named Ruth Wakefield invented the chocolate chip cookie nearly 80 years ago — apparently by happy accident.

Waymo's application also comes a weeks after a woman was killed by a self - driving Uber vehicle in the first accident of its kind.

If he needs something to look at, there's a painting of his hero, Christopher Reeve, and a color - copied image of what looks like a photo taken by accident — all you can see is a ceiling, partially in shadow.

The news of the accident didn't come out until last week, when it was reported by federal highway authorities — six weeks after the offering.

Building great businesses, achieving massive goals and rising to the top of your profession doesn't just happen by accident.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said the car will now reduce its speed in anticipation of curves on the highway, but added he was not aware of any accidents caused by the earlier version of the software.

While proponents of autonomous vehicles believe they will be much safer than those driven by humans, they'll have to prove that Monday's accident and subsequent ones are not the result of fundamental flaws in self - driving technology.

While most photographers will give your business a once over, if they miss that cluttered desk of yours by accident, it would take ages to fix those images digitally.

Collaborative efforts and shared resources can often become whirlwinds of activity; the unfortunate but common result of this is constant «stepping on each other's toes» by accident.

«In advance of this data, my assumption was always that the average U.S. employee selected healthcare like the non-educated American picks wine — just by price,» says Jeff Oldham, vice president of Benefitfocus's Benefitstore unit, which specializes in voluntary benefits (e.g. coverage for things like critical illness, hospital indemnity, and accidents).