Sentences with phrase «more by happenstance»

Nancy claims she is an artist «more by happenstance than by training.»
Yet even there, day care seems to have come to local parishes more by happenstance than by intentional ministry.

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Unlike the nationalism of more culturally monolithic nations that tends to exclude foreign - born citizens, in Canada it's immigrants like Abdul - Rahiim and Tura — people who live here by choice, not happenstance — who tend to be the biggest patriots.
The Austro - Hungarian Empire was, after all, an anomaly: A sprawling geographic entity, it grew more by marriage and happenstance than by warfare.
Second, they were paired, I believe, by happenstance, but you can believe that once the power brokers saw what they had done, they rubbed their hands together with great glee and just knew that they would have to make more movies with this charismatic couple.
More often than not, teachers are selected for these positions by what Johnson describes as «happenstance» rather than a deliberate process.
Still, this is really by happenstance and it's quite possible there could be more serious tracking error in decades prior to 1948.
The paintings in the exhibition take a complimentary approach within a more formal order, created by PEET in layers that reconfigure and incorporate mistakes and happenstance events that occur throughout the process.
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