Sentence examples for a quirk of development from inspiring English sources

Burnett doesn't explain why this happens to some people and not to others, because, he says, there is no clear reason why it should happen to some and not others; it's simply a "quirk of development".

These, however, are a quirk of evolution.

Yet, by a quirk of politics, the ritzy tourist developments stop on the Malay side of the border.

And Cowell said Honda would not be affected by a quirk of the engine rules that has restricted the amount of engine development it can do this year compared to its rivals.

Village homes are a quirk of Hong Kong's colonial history.

It is a quirk of timing that he should face the scrutiny of a judiciary that so studiously ignored his predecessors.Actually, not quite a quirk.

The problem was eventually traced to a combination of a quirk of DNA chemistry and another quirk in the machines used to do the synthesis.

So maybe declinism is just a quirk of human psychology.

No special reason; it's a quirk of language.

It began to look as if a quirk of his kit might be responsible, and the search turned to what that quirk might be.

Part of that is because of a quirk of the American market.