Sentence examples for accidental consequences from inspiring English sources

For example, in this text Boethius introduces the distinction between natural and accidental consequences, which then remains the main subdivision of consequences up until the 14th century (when it is surpassed by the distinction between formal and material consequences).

For instance, William of Sherwood recognizes the distinction between natural and accidental consequences inherited from Boethius, as well as the distinction between absolute and as-of-now (ut nunc) consequences (Stump 1982, 291) — the latter remained ubiquitous in the 14th century (Dutilh Novaes 2008).

But this is not just an accidental consequence of over-rapid deficit reduction.

Perhaps it was intentional, but more likely it was an accidental consequence of that magazine's editorial passion for detail.

Speculators buying property as an investment have to put down 40%.Rising home prices are not an accidental consequence of government easing but one of its goals.

Some see it either as a way of promoting group solidarity in a hostile world, or as an accidental consequence of the predisposition to such solidarity.

Similar observations in other famines, together with experiments on rodents, suggest this is an accidental consequence of an evolutionary adaptation to food scarcity.

This could be a brilliant marketing strategy (two demographics for the price of one) or the accidental consequence of trusting a generic idea to an unusually thoughtful and restrained director (George Ratliff, who also wrote the script, with David Gilbert).

The tactic has also ensured six days of play for Age of Extinction before most UK newspapers review in their print editions this Friday 11 July – this may have been a consideration, or just an accidental consequence, felicitous or otherwise.

But the so-called "terra preta", or "black earth", is much more fertile.This soil is found at the sites of ancient settlements, but it does not appear to be an accidental consequence of settlement.

It is hard to accept that such harmony has arisen as an accidental consequence of a brutal system with no principles beside the one that every individual is striving for reproductive success.