Sentences with phrase «whether by accident»

A fire at your home, whether by accident or related to criminal activity, is not something you want to encounter.

In the case of any unfortunate event that leads to the passing away of the insured party whether by accident or otherwise, then the survival benefits do not accrue and the nominees only receive the sum assured plus any bonus amount.

Whether by accident or nature, every vehicle is sure to see damage at some point.

Unfortunately, health conditions can change suddenly, whether by an accident or the onset of a serious illness.

The majority's rejection of the Chief Justice's dissenting proposal to include notions of quality of life in the right to life under s. 7 is important, for while attractive (we all treasure the things invoked by the Chief Justice — cultural and spiritual experiences, memories, and forming friendships, for example) it would limit the application of the right to life and devalue all of us who will, sooner or later, whether by accident, disease, or age, reach a stage where our capacities are slipping away.

Just as there are many ways in which New Mexico plaintiffs are injured, whether by accident, malpractice, or product liability, each injury is also unique.

Lawyers note that Canada does not publicize administrative penalties it imposes on companies that breach sanctions, whether by accident or by design, while the United States traditionally publicizes any breach, as well as offering different rules on whistleblowers and voluntary disclosure.

Should a device be proved defective, whether by accident or design, the party may report this to the local trading standards for prosecution.

At the same time, however, whether by accident or design, the vote was well timed to coincide with the summer holidays and, typically, a lull in business across industries.

Pet birds are sometimes hurt by other pets in the house, whether by accident such as a large dog getting a bit too rough with a small bird, or on purpose when a bird is attacked because it suddenly flew in the path of the family cat.

It isn't something that has to appear each and every time you happen to tap a page, whether by accident, to check your progress in the book or to be able to look up a word in the dictionary.

My books did arrive 10 days after, but whether by accident or not, Tabetha Jones revealed that the issue had been an avoidable, repeated mistake that had occured when she'd sent out my first package.

Whether by accident or design, Reitman's adaptation of the novel also comes along at a time when the material couldn't be more touchily topical, albeit for different reasons.

There is no escaping it: whether by accident of timing or by design of purpose, this was the formative film of the Seventies, and no film that followed it was unaffected.

Whether by accident or design, horror cinema represented everything we dread in 2016.

And don't forget, if you make too much (whether by accident or on purpose), just fill up some popsicle molds and freeze them.

Whether by accident or design, complex mathematics often obscures flawed or simplistic assumptions in financial models.

Whether by accident or design we rotate as much as, and in most cases more than, nearly all the PL teams.

Whether by accident or design Wenger has done one thing well this transfer window; he has injected a heap of energy and directness with Sanchez, Welbeck, Debuchy and Chambers.

Whether by accident or design, the royal commission's background paper, titled Some Features of The Australian Banking Industry, echoed themes raised in a draft report released days earlier by the Productivity Commission, which noted that the last time Australia's financial system was fiercely competitive was in the early 2000s.

Whether by accident or design, her Toll House Chocolate Crunch Cookies delighted her customers and became the culinary mother to an august lineage that almost 80 years later is still multiplying and, in some cases, mutating.

Whether by accident or design, however, their immediate effect was to channel millenarian excitement into socially constructive paths.

Not exact matches

I have seen firsthand how demoralizing and deflating a manager can be whether by design or by accident.

Thousands of Americans are killed by guns each year, whether for intentional violence, suicide, or accident.

According to the myth, «God» knows at the instant (and even before) that he created you what the cause of your demise would be - whether by stillborn birth, cancer, suicide, accident or old age.

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.

Whether by inherent logic or by historical accident, the abortion debate has become the magnet to which all the other life - and death - debates are attached.

Whether by inherent logic or by historical accident, almost every controverted question in bioethics is entangled with the question of abortion.

In the first paragraph of the first essay of The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton introduced the basic theme: «It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force.»

More immediately, there are a number of steps that a proactive employer can take, including putting together a comprehensive safety and health program, conducting regular safety and health audits and / or risk assessments, ensuring that employees are properly trained relative to their roles and responsibilities, and taking prompt action to respond to and address incidents (whether an accident or a near miss) by correcting any potential hazards, as well as issuing discipline if it has been determined that an employee or manager violated company safety rules.

I don't know whether he stumbled upon by design or by accident but it is what we are going with at present and it appears to working quite well for us.

Whether it's by neglect, design, or accident, Dolan and Jackson have seemed to be constructing a funeral pyre for their team in recent years.

It's a bit of an understatement to say that Van Gaal has got a lot of things wrong in his time at United, but whether the number of academy debutants has come about by accident or design, youth development is certainly not one of them.

Chelsea won the game, but Mourinho was convinced he had at least one player in his squad working against him and it was not the first time this season the 52 - year - old felt information was being leaked, whether on purpose or by accident.

I have been trying to make up my mind about whether I am doing the right thing or not, as I nurse my son to sleep most nights and this is working, and furthermore he has been slightly awake a few times when I put him to bed (by «accident») and as long as he wasn't overtired he seems to soothe himself to sleep — his makes me feel like he is developing his sleeping habits and learning to sleep although I am constantly worried about whether I am nurturing a bad sleeping habit.

Or it can occur when your toddler (whether by design or by accident) has rarely been outside your care and isn't used to being around other adults.

Whether it's Shankill Road or Bradford, many peoples» fate is arguably determined by the accident of birth.

The Security Project calls for the Defense Department to be much more involved in the region to match the militaries of other Arctic nations, and questions whether current policy frameworks, such as an Arctic strategy released by the Coast Guard this year, will be enough to prepare for potential oil spills, accidents and shipping traffic challenges.

A study last year found that a tiny proportion of methylated genes, about 200 out of 25,000, sneaked through the process, but the researchers are still investigating whether the «escapees» made it through by design or accident.

There's very high uncertainty whether I'll ever be in a car accident, but it would be foolish of me not to prepare for that possibility by purchasing auto insurance.

Regarding gastric emptying, I actually think that I may have naturally - slow gastric emptying — which is made even slower by cinnamon, vinegar, and other things that are supposed to naturally moderate blood sugar spikes — and this makes the GERD / acid reflux that I have (due to a hiatal hernia which was due to an unavoidable accident) worse, because some meals that I am eating are staying in my stomach for so long that I will still burp up gas from them and get acidic splashes at the back of my mouth from them 6 - 8 hours after I have stopped all eating for the day (whether I have stayed upright and awake all those hours or have gone to sleep after the first 3 hours of not ingesting anything — 3 hours is the minimum time I put between eating and lying down, to ward off acid reflux when I'm sleeping).

Whether on purpose or by accident, through this campaign, the house has demonstrated the immense usefulness and versatility of the statement piece once again.

Whether you end up in Portland by design or by accident, Maine's beautiful coast and amiable people are sure to make a positive impression.

If all this weren't enough, Mannix also has to contend with twin gossip columnists (played by Tilda Swinton) who are circling the studio in search of scandal; a near - fatal accident involving a film editor (Frances McDormand); an accountant (Jonah Hill) enlisted to see whether the pregnant ingénue can legally adopt her own child; and a song - and - dance star (Channing Tatum) harboring more than one Big Secret.

In the end, you might argue whether all the depth in the movie is actually intended by the filmmakers or an ironic accident... but the fact that it is there makes for an interesting movie.

Whether by happy accident or through post-production meddling, a few frames of the stock have been overexposed — a phantom image in a film overrun by ghosts.

Healy is hired by porn actress Amelia (Margaret Qualley) to protect her after fellow porn star Misty Mountains (Murielle Telio) was recently involved in a car accident, which leads Misty's aunt to hire private detective Holland March (Gosling) to find out whether her niece is actually dead or not as she claims to have seen her.

Basically, though, the film noir flourished in and reflected a contemporary milieu; films noirs tended to have to do with the world of crime, whether overtly (police and FBI stories, private - eye flicks, gangster stories) or by extension — that is, films in which «the world of crime» proved to be inseparable from the world of nightclubs and cabarets, offices and tenements, cars and homes where private citizens might become, by accident or design, guilty souls.

Whether this occurs by accident or on purpose, we have seen that this villain will be surrounded by the energy found in the Quantum Realm, an unstable force that will allow this woman to phase through solid objects — something that will earn her the codename of Ghost.

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