Sentence examples for mere accident from inspiring English sources

Was all this a mere accident?

This is unlikely to be the result of mere accident.

The current system allocates responsibility by mere accident of geography.

film, and this grain is no mere accident but an essential quality of Haynes's world.

That their lives had turned out differently was a mere accident.

Is it possible that the absence of tactile art is a mere accident of history?

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And those habits of body are no mere accidents of upbringing but the very essence of a zeitgeist, of the spirit of the time as it manifests itself.

And the mere accidents of government will doubtless give them further opportunities for quarrelling with their coalition partners, let alone among themselves.

They are comparing the mutations in many examples of each type, to find which are common to a type (and thus, presumably, causative) and which are mere accidents.

SUMMARY None of these holes and gaps in Iraq's declaration are mere accidents, editing oversights or technical mistakes: they are material omissions.