Sentence examples for matter of accident from inspiring English sources
So your life becomes a matter of accident, a terrible waste of time.
Having settled off of Columbus Avenue in the West 80's was mostly a matter of accident.
Mr. Rivkin said that it was "a matter of accident and irrelevance" that the health care rulings had broken down along such lines and that he had "not heard a single partisan remark" from his clients.
From Newton's apple to Millikan's oil-drop experiment, scientific discoveries are often as much a matter of accident as they are a matter of planning.
It was not merely a matter of accident.
Much of what happens to people in everyday life is a matter of sheer accident; only in fiction can one witness character and action work themselves out to their natural consequences.
It's a "Rocky" story in which opportunity is largely a matter of an accident of birth and of family heritage, connections, and money — one in which relentlessly hard work is still indispensable for rising to the top but in which rising to the top is still a matter of having started out somewhere near it.
As things are it still seems to be almost a matter of geographical accident whether patients find themselves on a long waiting list or a short one.' 'Fairness', the Guide continued, 'is the basic principle of the NHS.
After a short prologue, the book begins with a recounting, harrowing in its matter-of-factness, of the accident that has shaped his life.
It's often a matter of intention versus accident.
