Sentence examples for chance invention from inspiring English sources

That means one individual's chance invention is easily copied by others of its group, resulting in a primitive culture.

In the show, Jonathan played several roles, from a doctor who inadvertently invented Wheaties when he burnt some porridge to a ship's captain in a skit about how Dunkin Donuts got started and a painter in a skit about the chance invention of liquid paper.

Film posters, cartoons and books show that neither Lara Croft (of Tomb Raider fame) nor Donkey Kong were chance inventions, that they are just as much the product of an era as their predecessors Popeye and Indiana Jones.

In fact, the transcripts clearly demonstrate that the operative vocabulary of the freewheeling debates -- imagination, chance and invention -- was anything but mundane.

It also features an English translation of an essay by Mr. Starobinski, an erudite meditation on chance, intent and invention, on the aesthetic ideal and creative freedom.

Their son, nine, was promised a chance to try an invention of his own.

Lorne Michaels was a producer and kept the humor low key, but steady as you go waiting for Streisand to ruin her son's chance of selling his invention.

While the virtual instruments give anyone a chance to sample Partch inventions that are rarely played in public, they raise questions about the authenticity of such digital recreations.

Pivotal to the NSC 2 challenge is a new business model: instead of potential costs of $2 5 M to secure an exclusive license leading to commercialization, a new startup exclusive license agreement may allow newly generated companies greater chances to bring inventions to market.

The action begins when a toy inventor, Foster Kalt (Mike Brune), waits in a Manhattan hotel room for the chance to present his new invention at a competitive toy convention (something like a filmmaker waiting for a screening at a film festival).

If the players thought this was some news media invention, they had the chance to scream at the press yesterday.