Sentences with phrase «if by accident»

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.

When a person or entity fails to act reasonably, they may be considered negligent and may be responsible for any harm they cause, even if by accident.

If by accident or malice all the safeties on the Shoreham reactor (or any other US reactor) were removed the reactor core could melt down but it is not possible to achieve a «prompt critical» situation that could release enough explosive force to breach the containment structures.

The hero is just that, a stoner walking though life as if by accident.

«So, please do not fall into this trap of somebody asking you to bring a letter, because if by accident you are found or the letter traced to you, clearly it would not be something that we would tolerate.»

If by accident you cut open the mat cover, the inner liquid will not leak out.

Because a Street Smart guy never had a reason to buy it to begin with and even if by some accident they did, every single signal surrounding Groupon offered a fresh reason to sell it.

Not exact matches

If someone tried to break in, an alarm would sound and the company would try to reach you by phone, but would not automatically dispatch the police, because they had no way to know if the alarm was triggered by accident, which was often the casIf someone tried to break in, an alarm would sound and the company would try to reach you by phone, but would not automatically dispatch the police, because they had no way to know if the alarm was triggered by accident, which was often the casif the alarm was triggered by accident, which was often the case.

Derek started CD Baby by accident in 1998 when he was selling his own CD on his website, and friends asked if he could sell theirs, too.

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.

If we can just get the gap between personal and small - business tax rates wide enough...» No, it just happened by accident.

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.

A vast increase in oil transport by rail surely has at least something to do with the accident — if the train hadn't been carrying oil, its destruction might have been less catastrophic — but there will inevitably be debate over the conclusion to draw from that observation.

Sometimes it happens by accident, and then it is like dealing with your relatives and you hope to get rid of them but can't really» Charlie Munger «If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result even if you buy it cheap.&raquIf you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result even if you buy it cheap.&raquif you buy it cheap.»

While the unlucky blame fate, the lucky act as if their success happened by accident.

But if there were no arms then these victims «by accident» would not had been there either.

If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by - product of the movement of atoms.

If these are attributed to causes and the elements and it is claimed, «Causes created these,» it is unreasonable, impossible and absurd a hundred times over, just as it was to claim that the potion in the pharmacy came into existence through the phials being knocked over; by accident.

If you trip over a curb, it's an «accident» because you didn't intend to do it, but that «accident» is perfectly explainable by the laws of physics and the cause and effect of your step and the height of the curb and the speed of your body and all sorts of actual, measurable processes.

If a person were on a remote island and found the words «John 1800» engraved on a boulder, would these words have arisen by accident, perhaps by wind or water erosion?

And if all roads lead to God, which a Universalist would need to concede, I believe that is only by grace, not by accident.

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.

But if to use such weapons is wrong, it must also be wrong to possess them, since possession tempts powerfully toward use — whether by deliberate decision, technological accident or human error.

If you're worried about national security as an American, it might ease your mind to know you are more likely to be killed in an auto accident or even to die from your own clothes igniting or melting than by immigrant linked terrorism.

Fame, for Lutherans, seems best accomplished by accident, if at all.

Everything was designed by an intelligence for if not hard by accident....

No more than if you found a watch lying in the desert, running or not, that you would or could assume it happened by accident... common sense would dictate that intelligent life had to have made this watch as complex things simply do not «create» themselves by accident, no matter how many millions / billions of years have passed.

And if they agree, religion got lucky, probably by accident.

If you look at the complexity of the universe and everything in it, to think it happened by accident from some chemicals mixing together and eventually mutating into humans and other animals is way more difficult to believe in than god.

If so, this will affect the final result by the same factor of ten; ten times fewer total people who might have fulfilled these prophecies means only one tenth the chance that one of them might have done it by accident.

I was wondering if I offended you by accident.

[Second] I am not angry — except perhaps for a moment before I come to my senses — with a man who trips me up by accident; I am angry with a man who tries to trip me up even if he does not succeed [does not profit].

For some, it is ordained by God; for others, it arises from the nature of human beings, even if we are evolutionary accidents; or it may simply express the requirements for anything recognizable as a society.

And this scares you more than it would if the person with the power over extinction was someone who believed that human life was an accident representible by the 0.000000000000000000000000001 % chance that some chemicals could combine in just the right way, at just the right time, with just the right frequency to eventually give rise to sentience.

But by all means, if you think that a doctor is not «better» than a garbageman than by all means go to a garbageman next time you have an accident.

Yes, odds are not only against intelligent life forming by accident the probability is only remotely possible if there are an infinite number of universes according to Stephen Hawking.

If it is not altered it is an accident, since the cause of its exemption is only that by sheer chance his life was not touched by any change.

Many have died by accident and if you were them and one of you family members died and a person like Osama said this is what the westerners are would you believe them when you have no cable or anything just the image of the dead family member?

«Don't think that this blog and others are up here by accident, if you really want to do something then write congress, tell our leaders that they had better start listening to the majority of the people»

If we accept that the universe in all its details is not determined by some outside power, and if we accept a role for chance and accident, there is no need to invoke the «strong» anthropic principlIf we accept that the universe in all its details is not determined by some outside power, and if we accept a role for chance and accident, there is no need to invoke the «strong» anthropic principlif we accept a role for chance and accident, there is no need to invoke the «strong» anthropic principle.

But I did wish that he had kept himself sufficiently informed so that when and as and if he did (almost by accident!)

However, the fact that no serious accident has yet occurred is offset by the massiveness of the catastrophe that would result if the reactors safeguards failed.

If we accept that the universe in all its details is not determined completely by some outside power, and if we accept a role for chance, accident, and some persuasive purpose, there is no need to invoke the strong anthropic principle or its deistic varianIf we accept that the universe in all its details is not determined completely by some outside power, and if we accept a role for chance, accident, and some persuasive purpose, there is no need to invoke the strong anthropic principle or its deistic varianif we accept a role for chance, accident, and some persuasive purpose, there is no need to invoke the strong anthropic principle or its deistic variant.

His death was no mere accident or miscarriage of justice, if by the latter one means a death unrelated to a person's actual life and work.

An atomic build - up can not be risked, because of the ease with which a nuclear war could be initiated by accident if not by design.

They can evolve by duplication of their specificities as of the new type if, by any accident, they undergo a change (or mutation).

Every one of us has been given, by God, the ability to recognize truth (Common Grace) and if truth is rejected it is a decision not an ignorant accident.

Ok then if you are in an accident or you need a hospital, do not go to a Catholic one, ensure you find one not run by any religious org at all.

(2) It follows, therefore, that if a program can be placed in a time - slot with a greater audience potential, its chances of gaining a larger audience even by accident is greatly increased.

«If a physical thing were made up exclusively of parts of this kind it would not be essentially one, but only one by accident, like a heap of rocks piled up together.