Sentences with phrase «rather than accident»

However, 90 % of long - term disabilities result from illness rather than accident, meaning they can affect you no matter what you do for work.

The situation was originally complicated by the fact that the client suffered from diabetes, which could have lead the Court to rule that this was causing some of his symptoms rather than the accident.

The emphasis here is on design, rather than accident, since it seems doubtful that a painter or sculptor can be accidentally avant - garde.

What has not been mentioned is that the «Saul - into - Paul conversion theory», published by Elaine de Kooning in Art News in 1958, was not set in Willem de Kooning's studio and did not mention a «Bell - Opticon», unlike her account of 1962.13 Additionally, while the 1958 account's introduction dramatised Kline's breakthrough to abstraction as a «transformation of consciousness», or a «revelation» of Biblical proportions, invoking the example of «Saul of Tarsus outside the walls of Damascus when he saw a «great light»», the description of Kline's technical and conceptual breakthrough in this account nevertheless resembled previous accounts of Kline's development in its gradualness, uneventfulness and thoughtfulness.14 The breakthrough that Elaine de Kooning first recounted was a product of sustained technical experimentation and logical thought on Kline's part, rather than accident or epiphany: «Still involved, in 1950, with elements of representation, he began to whip out small brushes of figures, trains, horses, landscapes, buildings, using only black paint.

Revered in Japan, the rest of the world has never quite latched on to a series for which obfuscation is a calling card rather than an accident of design.

We are prone to see intent rather than accident in the unexplained.

LAWPRO's counsel successfully argued that this was not a case where the plaintiff should be forced to seek compensation against her lawyers, rather than the accidents benefits insurer.

Not exact matches

Rather than expose miners to the risk of a human error - induced accident involving a multi-ton vehicle, Clearpath takes the driving out of human hands.

He says he became a lifer by accident rather than design: «Evaluating my career, my criteria have always been: Do I like what I am doing?

Even a statement as simple as «people are less likely to be involved in accidents while Autopilot is engaged» could be misleading if drivers tend to rely on Autopilot more in ideal driving conditions, rather than challenging ones, and the distinction isn't taken into account.

I had in my heart and tongue the Name of Allah when ever I had fears, troubles or depression of any kind but from Jan 05 1995 when had lost my father and second brother in a car accident, it was the time I really felt am alone at age of 33 to face all the challenges my father has left upon me to run and manage among other partners therefore had been investigating the Quran as to understanding every word of it rather than to memorize it, have been did a lot of reciting verses of prayers begging God to look upon me and give me strength... am sure through such difficult times if I had no faith in God I would have perished and lost every thing long ago... Another thing my heart always gave me signs and my mind gave me logic of what to believe although have read many books abroad in my youth of many beliefs out of curiosity but could not belief in other than that God is one and Muhammed is his last prophet in all belief of the Quran he brought upon me / us in all that it says... Should mention at times had experienced dreams seeing signs and warnings long in advance of things going to happen A year or more before losing my father in a car accident I had seen him in my dream good bye wearing white cloth and going to board a tourist ship all crew dressed in white uniform rolling a red carpet on front of him and when was on the top of the stairs weaver smiling good bye... seen in another dream how or wealth will be stolen and what I will hold... so many things like that..

Nor does it seem correct to say that his atheism was an historical accident rather than an essential feature of the Marxian worldview.

As for fine tuning within the universe, how do you know that it is actually fine - tuned rather than a happy accident that allows us to exist here?

Does Mr. Anderson believe it is pure accident that those evils are in our past rather than in our present?

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

No, my dream for America is for an aristocracy based on achievement, rather than an aristocracy based on the accident of birth, or the color of skin, or whether you are a Wasp or a southern European in ancestry.

It is not by accident that we have chosen a personal interaction and developmental model with certain analogies to the psychotherapeutic relationship, rather than the mechanical models of natural science hitherto aped by historiography in its rush for recognition as a science.

Any new methods he picked up in the course of his own experience were stumbled upon by accident, rather than discovered by venturesome experiment, for it did not pay to wander far from the known way.

Happy accident rather than intentional aesthetic effect.

Such close resemblance in the dressing of the two products, I must conclude, was by design rather than by accident.

Bold players actually courted risk rather than wait for accidents.

But she's acting as if she lost her whole family to a horrific accident, rather than her losing two sporting events.

That Mayasich is little known outside his home state is an accident of time and place rather than the result of any limitation in his skills.

His injury was a genuine accident, rather than the «accidents» induced by thuggish behaviour, thereby at least lessening the psychological problems to a comeback.

While it can be scary to test your baby for peanut allergies, it's best to find out in a controlled environment rather than by accident later in life at a friend's house, birthday party, or school event.

I still have to fill his cup only half full to keep from cleaning up a bigger mess if he has an accident, but I'd much rather have an occasional, and perfectly normal, spill, than a child who is still drinking from sippy cups when he's five.

She chose to pull out my afterbirth rather than me stand and push it out, and tore a piece off by accident and left it inside me.

I didn't feel it was a matter of rushing, but more a matter of guiding my kids in a conscious way, rather than learning by accident.

Instead, «success» is more likely to mean that your child is using the potty rather than diapers, but he may still have accidents and you'll need to help him with parts of the process.

But for me personally, I'd rather risk an accident (even potentially a fatal one) than risk the possible negative impact on emotional health.

We were involved in a little accident a few months back where someone bumped into the back of us - I was SO please that my daughter was in this rather than a standard booster seat.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health)- Children under 4 years of age fare better in motor vehicle accidents when they are riding in rear - facing rather than forward - facing car seats, according to a report published online in the British Medical Journal.

The fathers of the control group were also offered a face - to - face 40 - minute training session about child care, such as accident prevention and vaccination, but discussion was focused on the health benefits of breast milk rather than the management of breastfeeding.

It is similar to inventing cars that can be driven too fast and then, when the speed causes accidents and deaths, rather than change the cars or retrain the drivers, we invent speed bumps.

Your child might not be «perfectly» potty trained by the end of the week; your child might still have accidents, but he should be using the toilet rather than diapers.

«Many passengers tell drivers to speed rather than asking them to slow down», he said, and that they need to voice out against reckless and dangerous driving to avoid accidents.

This is not unheard of in transport accidents and is normally due to error rather than malice.

If they had justified their existence merely as accidents of history rather than through particular identities and focused on good governance, they may well have emerged as stable and prosperous entities.

«We did not become the most taxed state in America by accident; it is due to a systematic break down caused by politicians beholden to big donors and party leaders rather than the people,» Giambra said.

«Jesse Norman's bill was a smokescreen and the Tories should be using parliamentary time to fix the economy rather than wasting valuable time targeting dedicated men and women who spend their days preventing accidents, avoiding tribunals and supporting their colleagues.»

Currently in New York, a driver under the influence of alcohol or drugs may only face a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident, rather than felony charges of intoxicated driving.

If Fido has an accident, just pop the cover in the wash and you'll be back in business sooner rather than later.

It may not be so awesome if the particles enter the bloodstream by accident rather than as part of a medical treatment.

But the crazy thing about empty space, weighing something --[well,] there are many crazy things — it produces a gravitational repulsion, rather than the attractions so the expansion of the universe is speeding up; but this stuff is so mysterious and inexplicable — completely inexplicable right now — that many physicists have been driven wild and mad and have changed what we might mean by fundamental physics by suggesting, for example, that the fundamental concepts in nature are not really fundamental at all, they are accidental; they are an environmental accident; that the are many universes and we just happen to live in the one that has the values it does because if you changed it a little bit then we wouldn't be living.

Unless it is immune — by accident rather than design — to the forces of history, it will go the way of all civilisations.

The source stressed that it was more likely an accident rather than a determined act of sabotage.

This fundamentally changes how scientists perceive latency, presenting it as an evolutionarily advantageous phenomenon rather than a biological accident.

Rather than blaming the children who had pushed me, or recognizing that the incident was an accident, I put all of the blame for the mishap on that purse.

He has a steel plate in his skull and a gnarled set of fingers from a rodeo accident he may never fully recover from — and which may kill him if he stays in the saddle rather than submit to a dull, safe job.

The film opens with Bob Merrick hurtling dangerously across a lake in his speedboat, an accident waiting to happen, rather than with Helen picking up Joyce and Tommy at the pier in New York.