Sentences with phrase «than accident in»

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

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Former Liberal Party WA president David Honey's convincing by - election victory in the blue ribbon seat of Cottesloe was no accident; the strong Liberal showing was more than a year in the planning.

More than 2,600 pedestrians are injured from motor - vehicle - related accidents in B.C. every year, and as many as 67 of those die as a result.

According to Ho Wing Hong, a senior ship surveyor with Hong Kong's marine accident investigation unit, there have been more than 150 collisions to date this year in Hong Kong's waters alone.

While more people died in air accidents in 2014 than the average in recent years, the number of fatal accidents compared with the total number of flights was a record low, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

Similarly, we built tools so millions of people could commit to becoming organ donors to save others after accidents, and registries reported larger boosts in sign ups than ever before.

Even a small number of high - profile accidents could do more than statistics to influence the opinions of lawmakers and potential customers, at least in the short term.

While proponents of autonomous vehicles believe they will be much safer than those driven by humans, they'll have to prove that Monday's accident and subsequent ones are not the result of fundamental flaws in self - driving technology.

The automaker said it will establish a compensation program covering those killed or seriously injured in the more than 50 accidents blamed on the switches.

It also faces more than 4,300 claims for compensation from people who said they suffered injuries related to the faulty switches or from relatives of those killed in related accidents, the lawyer overseeing the program has said.

But the same could be said of the 197 pedestrians struck by cars and killed in Arizona in 2016, and the more than 40,000 people who died in car accidents in the U.S. during the same time period.

From Bill Cosby's now - legendary social media missteps, flippant tweets that resulted in firings, to Facebook official relationships sometimes carrying more weight than actually committing, social media is what you make of it, either on purpose or by accident.

«For the vast majority of people, regularly getting less than about seven hours of sleep leads to concentration problems, lower energy levels, accidents, and, in the long - term, raises the risk of depression,» PsyBlog stresses.

In 2014, more than 1,600 people who were passengers in the front seat of vehicles were killed in accidentIn 2014, more than 1,600 people who were passengers in the front seat of vehicles were killed in accidentin the front seat of vehicles were killed in accidentin accidents.

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.

In the event of an accident, Kinder Morgan has pledged to do no more than comply with federal laws, which stipulate that operators of a major oil pipeline in this country must have a minimum of $ 1 billion in financial resources available to cover liabilities related to a land spilIn the event of an accident, Kinder Morgan has pledged to do no more than comply with federal laws, which stipulate that operators of a major oil pipeline in this country must have a minimum of $ 1 billion in financial resources available to cover liabilities related to a land spilin this country must have a minimum of $ 1 billion in financial resources available to cover liabilities related to a land spilin financial resources available to cover liabilities related to a land spill.

That's all to the good; I don't think it's an accident that the first wide - open Best Picture race in decades coincides with the fact that a quarter of voting members have joined since 2014, and that a far lower percentage of them are straight, white male American elders than is the case with the other 75 percent of voters.

Less than a month after a fatal accident occurred with a Tesla Model X using its Autopilot feature, another accident almost occurred in the same spot.

Tesla claims it to be so, showing that tens of thousands of clients all over the world have banked more than 100 million miles in semi-autonomous driving until the unfortunate accident of Brown.

But serious accidents occur in plants from all over, according to more than 3,000 pages of court documents and OSHA investigative files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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..

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

But when David Halberstam (who, with Neil Sheehan, did more than anyone else to create the canonical narrative of Vietnam) died tragically this past year in an auto accident, not a single obituary notice I read suggested he had been terribly wrong about Tet or that his wrongheadedness had helped create a political situation that had had lethal consequences for millions.

In the U.S., the number of abused women falls to one in four, but domestic violence is still the leading cause of injury for women between the ages 15 and 44 — more than car accidents, muggings, and rape combineIn the U.S., the number of abused women falls to one in four, but domestic violence is still the leading cause of injury for women between the ages 15 and 44 — more than car accidents, muggings, and rape combinein four, but domestic violence is still the leading cause of injury for women between the ages 15 and 44 — more than car accidents, muggings, and rape combined.

It then said that Groeschel was in a car accident seven years ago that put him in a coma for more than a month.

If I believed in a purposeless universe, that life nothing but an accident, me and my loved ones are no more valuable than tape worms, then I would be drinking constantly.

It may be no more (and no less) true that the elimination of poverty is «open to public choice» than that traffic accidents continue to occur in our land only «because we consent to it.»

Accidents and tragedy will be a part of modern society regardless... we see it far more often on the highway than we do in the home from accidental shooting and I am not talking about the criminal activity of drinking and driving.

Surely it is more than a mere accident that Whitehead so conceives the «actuality» of his actual entities in such a way as to fit the Aristotelian sense of energeia and entelecheia, both of which are rendered by the Latin actus and its derivative forms.

It is not by accident that John 3:16 has been more often quoted than any other verse in the Bible.

I take comfort in knowing that there is indeed an afterlife and there is more than just this... 20 minutes after my brother died in a car accident 1500 miles away, my 2.5 year old asked me who was standing next to me in our kitchen — it was just my son and me so I thought — believe what you will but I know my son saw my brother's spirit in our kitchen that day.

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.

If you could understand science than you would see the lack of «accident» and the beauty of scientificly inevitable evolution both in life and the universe.

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.

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

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.

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

There is one important difference in the West, however, due to its being the closest in proximity to the gospel for the longest time» a difference, that is, related more to historical accident than to innate superiority.

It is no accident that in Gerbner «s TV - violence profile, lower class and nonwhite characters are especially prone to victimization, are more violent than their middle class counterparts, and pay a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).12.

The battering of women results in more injuries requiring medical attention than auto accidents, muggings and rapes combined.

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.

Even tried to just have friendly chats with her and in those chats the topic of my best friend who died in a car accident in high school came up briefly... little more than a mere mention.

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.

It is no accident that in the Gerbner TV - violence profile, lower - class and nonwhite characters are depicted as especially prone to victimization, as more violent than their middle - class counterparts, as paying a high price for engaging in violence (jail, death).

... God does know more intimately than any the price his creatures have been paying for his huge adventure of making this universe of accident and freedom and pain as the only environment in which love could one day emerge to receive and delight in and respond to his joyous love.

The act of A on B is already more than just A or B; it is rooted in them, so to speak, but is not a real accident or feature of either individually, for it is a «going out from A and a landing in B.» At the same time, according to Leclerc, that A acts on B, B will act on A, for to be really acted on or affected by another thing is in some way to also act on and affect it; there is thus no such thing as absolute potency (NPE 295).

Abolition ends with Lewis's admonition to pause before relegating Natural Law to no more than another accident of human history in a wholly material universe.

I am spiritual, and I very much believe in something higher than me... it's impossible for me, myself, to believe that everything is just an accident... but that's just me.