Sentences with phrase «not happenstance»

Kobo's relationship with Fairmount is not happenstance with this contest, we reported in August that Kobo and Randomhouse both established deals with the hotel chain.

If you're one of these individuals who gets a nice mood boost whenever you sink your teeth into a bar of pure, unadulterated chocolate, it is not happenstance.

If you're one of these individuals who gets a nice mood boost whenever you sink your teeth into a bar of pure, unadulterated chocolate, it is not happenstance.

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.

«That [increase] was clearly a conscious strategy, that's not happenstance.»

Our success isn't happenstance.

Not exact matches

Part of the reason is happenstance: Gildan's original market is in so - called imprintables — T - shirts sold to screen printers who drop a logo on the front for concerts and other promotions — and Chinese manufacturers have not heavily targeted the sector.

Geisha Williams isn't the first person whose life included moments of happenstance — but her ability to make the most of them is striking.

The timing is not by happenstance.

The story of how the founders met and ultimately became partners was well told as you realize how happenstance many of the factors leading to the partnership were: it might have not happened at all, quite easily.

Through sheer happenstance, I have ended up in a working environment not terribly different from the one employed by Buffett, Munger, and other likeminded value investors.

This is not just happenstance.

The GOP field of candidates this year is «mostly happenstance» — the contenders did not rise to the front of the pack because of their religions, Silk says.

So, Schlesinger stipulates, «our relative values are not matters of whim and happenstance.

Not by happenstance is Updike our premier eulogist of suburban life.

Isn't it amazing thinking, physics and mechanics work, but there is no design, just random happenstance... Takes more faith to believe in evolution than that God actually created the world we know.

I don't believe in happenstance, coincidence or luck, but rather a compassionate creator that interacts with his creation in a very personal way.

It was not just a random happenstance that Yahweh picked a patriarchal society to exhibit His Name in.

The whole point of Bushnell's bold presentation is that «vicarious sacrifice» is eternally at the very heart of God, not just by happenstance or uniquely in Jesus» earthly fate: «there is a cross in God before the wood is seen upon Calvary.»

The presence of advertising, perhaps seen as an intrusion to 2013's Tumblr users, is now happenstance, but not entirely unavoidable.

It's safe to say that it was apparent that limiting Gronk was something woven into the game plan and not just happenstance.

By these standards, which admittedly do not include such occasionally decisive happenstances as uncommonly hot - shooting nights and common colds, this year's St. Joseph's team stands out impressively.

Clearly oddsmakers aren't in the business of creating value in a betting market purely by happenstance or insinuating that Germany and Portugal are power rated as equals.

The findings could also help to address basic questions about the early evolution of life, Arnold says, and in particular whether its disdain of silicon was happenstance or not.

It was happenstance that Weinberg, who describes herself as «not a big social media user,» ended up helping lead a march conceived in flurry of online messages this past January.

As in a number of other cases, this investigation wasn't started as a part of any aging or longevity study, and the longevity of these mice is a fortunate happenstance.

More than just a happenstance addition to one's diet and exercise regimen to keep their body in optimal shape and function, supplements also act to provide our body with nutrients and essential substances it otherwise couldn't synthesize, derive, or create on its own.

Happiness doesn't strike us by luck or happenstance.

Wouldn't you love to feel like you have complete control over something previously so happenstance?

We just haven't met up yet, I don't believe in happenstance.

You'll meet people that don't like you as much as you like them and vice versa, but all of these happenstances only serve to make it all the more worthwhile when you finally meet the special someone who is meant to be yours.

Running into or meeting the right one, if you ever do, is more often than not, pure happenstance.

It's not quite the hatchet job many had predicted, but you're left at times unsatisfied with minor plot points: Post plane crash, Gerry and his bodyguard are the only survivors... Whilst fleeing zombies at Camp Humphreys, out of seven people he's the only one to survive... Much of the happenstance seems to be too unbelievable to work or be credible.

Buffy Sainte Marie speaks of becoming a musician by happenstance, and suffering under a blacklist she wasn't even explicitly aware of for almost twenty years.

Another story has newlyweds played by Alessandro Tiberi and Alessandro Mastronardi in a series of innocent happenstance that leads to some not so innocent events that include her favorite actor (Antonio Albanes) and high - priced call girl (Penelope Cruz).

Happenstance occurs when both sets are booked in the same room, and though they initially don't get along, they soon get tipsy, then smashing drunk, and wake up the next morning to find that, sometime during their night of drunken debauchery, they have gotten married.

It's not just happenstance.

There is a hefty dose of politics fueling the antics — it can't be happenstance that the studio is named Capitol — as well as a dialectical subtext on the need for dreams to keep reality humming along, with Mannix the willing sacrificial lamb that keeps it all going to keep the illusion in place.

Much has been said about the lackluster crop of nominees this year, but you honestly can't complain where this is the only category where women have the chance to dominate it by the sheer happenstance of their gender.

More often than not, teachers are selected for these positions by what Johnson describes as «happenstance» rather than a deliberate process.

In an interview with EdSource, Orfield noted that the racial isolation didn't occur by happenstance, but reflects residential segregation that has been shaped by explicit policies affecting where people live, such a whether communities allow affordable rental housing in their communities, as well as how school boundaries are drawn.

It wasn't by happenstance that both of these new principals recognized that a supportive, professional, and collaborative school culture is key to academic success.

Those of us who are committed to improving education for all students should not rely on happenstance, but rather design a deliberate and coherent system that serves the needs of all students.

Not only do the regulations impose new and unauthorized burdens that are found nowhere in the law, but the reporting requirements seem calculated — by happenstance or design — to yield misleading comparisons between charter schools and traditional district schools.

I'm not sure if it was this system at play or just happenstance, but on a frequently - driven stretch of twisty pavement, the 750i knew to downshift for an especially tight corner before I even began braking for it.

I've also long believed that the cartels couldn't function at the scale they do without the active support of the U.S. government — and it was probably just happenstance that I named the Sinaloa cartel as the one that was getting the support.

But actually, what we're doing, by accident, and by complete happenstance, is asking, «What would the older guard of comics do if they were presented with these new - fangled things that they might not know what to do with and are just messing about with?»

Now not only will customers be able to see the eReaders physically on display, but many people will just come upon them out of happenstance.

Of course, most of us don't rely on this happenstance to fund our future and we make financial plans accordingly (ie.

The optimal answer mostly represents happenstance, and not fact.