Sentence examples for had fortuitous from inspiring English sources
In my 27 years I have had fortuitous opportunities to be part of some dynamic social circles.
Astronomers also had fortuitous luck in 2008 when they discovered an asteroid, smaller than the Russian one, and were able to track it as it entered the atmosphere over Sudan 20 hours later.
You had hotels that were too expensive and too far from the downtown, you had free food and free alcohol, you had long days and even longer nights, you had parties you were invited to and parties you crashed, you had fortuitous run-ins with people you knew from back home and people you only knew from Twitter, and you had a definite scarcity of cabs.
We had fortuitous timing.
"You can't schedule innovation," he said, as Google knows well, attributing the genesis of such projects as Gmail, Google News and Street View to engineers having fortuitous conversations at lunch.
The extra wings have no obvious selective advantage in resisting ether, but this classic example illustrates the point that if you have processes that are already present but under suppression, then under stress you might see some of them emerge, and if you have fortuitous selection at the same time you can very quickly evolve.
Parekh began pitching his idea to venture capitalists and had a fortuitous encounter with Rocket Internet, the digital-focused VC firm with a startup incubator, based in Berlin.
What you can learn in a cab ride with a Uefa bigwig On the day after the Champions League final, I had a fortuitous meeting.
The Taliban suggested that the capture of the two servicemen had been fortuitous, that the pair had strayed into an area they controlled and that they had seized the opportunity.
Even though the case had a fortuitous ending, it was widely seen as a bungled investigation, and the four innocent men won a $1.9 million settlement from the city of Philadelphia.
The totems are passed on within the group, and tales about the tribe's origins suggest that each totem had a fortuitous connection with the birth of the ancestor of the clan.
