Sentences with phrase «chance events»

He says injuries seldom occur because of chance events, such as equipment failure or lightning strikes.

Single extreme events can not be simply and directly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, as there is always a finite chance the event in question might have occurred naturally.

Do you ever marvel at how much that single, chance event changed things?

Single extreme events can not be simply and directly attributed to human - induced climate change, as there is always a finite chance the event in question might have occurred naturally.

There is no certainty in life or in the markets, just chance events and random probabilities.

Yet critics have argued that these examples represent the exception and that evolution is not really predictable because too many chance events can knock it off course.

Through my studio practice I collaborate with forces of nature, embrace chance events, and take in narratives of human oversight to look at the space of our existence.

What about the role of chance events, beyond the control of the CEO?

Such droughts may be simply initiated by chance events, such as random fluctuations in storm tracks over the years.

If the qualitative causes are not chance events, but are indications that the business is being sold improperly to those who know they are close to death (or disability) and evade the limited underwriting of the group coverage, that means the group is low quality, and the program should be discontinued, or severely modified.

Said Dr. Martin Gilbert, Wildlife Health Cornell Carnivore Specialist with Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine: «As carnivore numbers decline, they face a greater risk from chance events like outbreaks of disease.

There is no role for God in a world completely dependent upon chance events.

Jon Gitelson (b. 1975, Mount Kisco, NY) draws inspiration from chance events, ritual, and the archive.

If we take still another tack and say that by a free decision we mean one that is not caused at all but is purely spontaneous, it would seem that we are speaking of a purely chance event rather than of any kind of responsible human freedom.

Siblings may have the same probability of dying in a given year, for example, but only one may be lost to, say, an accidental drowning or other chance event.

Thus do normal anomalies become paranormal, natural phenomena become supernatural, unidentified flying objects become extraterrestrial spacecraft and chance events become conspiracies.

«Jump dispersal helps us remember that events that are rare on human timescales can be common over geological timescales, and that biodiversity might be structured largely by these rare chance events.»

«Stevenson and others are puzzling out how subtle differences in starting conditions such as distance from the sun, along with chance events like giant impacts early in the solar system history, can send planets down vastly different evolutionary paths.»

Though skeptical at first, a series of chance events leads David to believe that Elijah may be right, ultimately forcing him to reconsider his true purpose in life.

Gone are the days of hard resetting only to repeat the same strategy for a 30 minute engagement up until an unexpected 1 % chance event kills your favorite unit — now you can turn back the clock one turn at a time, and try again.

Testing the paper through folds Pincis instinctively come up with rules and systems, but wanted to create a more natural, «biological» system, like a plant growing, where the system was responding to more chance events, hence laying down squares of colour fairly casually at first, to respond to and work with.

Mark Steinmetz has spent his career, beginning in the mid-1980s, relying on chance events to capture his photographs.

The results are both post-postmodernist and cussedly original - a sort of «back to the future» of painting that literally crumples the medium, then lays it wide open to certain chance events.

«uncertainty with the RF of the gas» might be seized on by deniers who will wrongly interpret it as an admission of ignorance when it is really just a shorthand way of saying that a tonne of any gas has an atmospheric lifetime and impact which will depend on plenty of chance events such as where it was emitted, what the temperature was at the time, etc etc and we can compensate for imperfect information by using probability distributions.

The idea that the origin and evolution of plants and animals and all living creatures depends in part upon chance events is largely due to Charles Darwin in the nineteenth century.

But first we need to get some clarity into the meaning of chance events in the order of nature that goes beyond analogies of monkeys and painters and computers.

Over a long enough time period such effects tend to cancel out (a phenomenon called «regression to the mean»), thus it is unlikely that a firm is consistently high performing just because of chance events.»

Chance events like this can accumulate to produce substantial change over generations.

blockquoteSingle extreme events can not be simply and directly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, as there is always a finite chance the event in question might have occurred naturally.

Where I see a miracle in a healing you see an unknown or chance event.

Or, as he is reported elsewhere to have said, «God is also the God of chance events.

Each of us exists as the result of an almost infinite number of accidents or chance events.

Relativism runs through the whole of our modern world - view: the assessment of nature as a directionless flux of chance events, the erosion of the absolute value of human life, the dismissal of historic religious authority as «out of date», and the ever shifting sands of personal and social morality.

In the midst of his letter some chance event or sudden recollection brings to his mind the peril they are in from the ultra-Jewish Christian teachers who have so disturbed his work in Galatia and elsewhere, and he prolongs his letter to warn the Philippians against them.

According to thinkers as diverse as Laplace, Einstein and Russell, for example, a chance event is one whose cause is unknown.

A chance event five decades ago where David Frith saw someone dropping bundles of shoes in a puddle inspired him to investigate the process of shrink wrapping...

An implied probability (IP) is essentially the chance an event will happen according to betting odds.

Random, chance events are the usual cause of genetic problems.

Having a baby in your 30s and early 40s — and earlier, for that matter — is always a chance event.

But their interests, personalities, and chance events will probably set different courses in life for them.

What is indisputable is that while the end results of evolution might appear utterly impossible, once you understand the way in which natural selection can collect and distil the results of chance events, there's nothing impossible about it at all.

Hackermüller: «This finding gave rise to a lively discussion as to whether this could be caused by chance events or mistakes in the regulation of cellular processes.

As populations decrease, they become more vulnerable to chance events that precipitate extinction.