It could have gone otherwise, but it didn't".
It got me out in the water more often than I would have gone otherwise; it also got my attention.
Soldiers and Stasi agents didn't shoot into the crowd, but things could easily have gone otherwise.
When they come to New York, I'm the one schlepping them to some place they wouldn't have gone otherwise.
Local restaurants, bars and shops will all profit from a greater number of people visiting the area - people who might not have gone otherwise.
(Archie Stark, believed to be the United States' best center-forward at the time, opted not to go. In an era of no substitutes, some say this paved the way for Patenaude, who may not have gone otherwise).
It seems unlikely that Pacquiao would retire, but few people who watched him get knocked out on Saturday night would pick him to win a fifth fight against Márquez — once you have seen a fighter get knocked out, it's hard to unsee it, and to imagine that the fight could have gone otherwise.
This is because wronging someone seems to presuppose that things could have gone otherwise for that individual i.e., it seems to require talk of direct personal interests but things could not have gone otherwise for either Amy or George.
In several of the program studied, the effects on employment faded over time, even before the incentives had ended, meaning that the main effect of the incentives was to move individuals into work more quickly than they would have gone otherwise.
But it could have gone otherwise.
He said it's a chemical imbalance and he prescribed some pills and the depression has gone.' Otherwise, he says, he tries to live as best he can to the dictates of 'his dharma': to stay centred.
