Her career was a collection of serendipitous and fortuitous events that entice one to believe she was fated to succeed. |
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Much of the success of the text is by design, other aspects are by fortuitous accident. |
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It was rather fortuitous then, to have the Prime Minister himself underline the need for a more direct and reliable land route. |
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He laughed to himself as he walked, thinking how lucky he'd been that his prank had had such fortuitous results. |
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There things might have stayed, except for a rapid and fortuitous concatenation of circumstance and opportunity. |
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The decision proved fortuitous when his show at the Red Lion was caught by a talent scout from Reprise, who signed him to the label. |
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This fortuitous design confined the damage to just the number six cylinder, piston, and connecting rod. |
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A fortuitous occurrence was something that happened by good fortune and not merely by chance or accident. |
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They might have been, too, but for a rather fortuitous penalty awarded with nine minutes remaining. |
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Only a courageous tackle by young Matthews and a fortuitous hack on saved the day as West Leeds attacked. |
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Among the other fortuitous details of my birth, I forgot to mention my actual birthday. |
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Make no mistake this was a hard won if rather fortuitous victory but like recent games it needn't have been so. |
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If such evidence surfaces, watch out for another fortuitous destruction of those records. |
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In our analysis, we took advantage of these fortuitous differences by incorporating weather as a categorical factor. |
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So on a meander along the city footpaths, it was fortuitous that we came across this venue, just when a lunch break was called for. |
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As it was I was spared splatting straight into the ground by the fortuitous placement of a barbed wire fence. |
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On a similar theme, red is a lucky or fortuitous colour so wedding banquets in Japan tend to have red food included. |
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It had been obtained by one of those fortuitous coincidences that sometimes produce great journalism. |
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This is fortuitous because the acreage of this convention center is unfathomable. |
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Henry benefitted from several fortuitous breaks of the ball, but took full advantage as King's game began to unravel. |
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As it turned out, it was rather fortuitous that I had stopped to have a short discussion with Irving. |
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The loft above the work space was a fortuitous accident that happened during construction. |
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It probably arose from the accidental but fortuitous fermentation of grapes from wild vines. |
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It's deliciously grown-up, avoiding slapstick in favour of fortuitous mishap. |
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Despite pressing for much of the second half it was Knockmay who got a fortuitous goal in a goalmouth scramble. |
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It may have been simply fortuitous that they had encamped near the Korisa military camp. |
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A fortuitous recent result of asteroidal spectrography found that the object under observation was, in fact, a nearly dormant comet. |
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Violence itself becomes a means of reassurance, a fortuitous opportunity through which the strength of re-enforced steel is tested. |
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The fact that the claimant was a trespasser is, from the defendant's point of view, purely fortuitous. |
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If not for some fortuitous timing, mineralogy would be without the current knowledge of blatonite. |
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The news media are not charged with the duty of full court reporting, and it is necessarily fortuitous as to whether remarks upon sentence are reported or not. |
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It may well be that the words were the fortuitous effect of wind, but the message they convey is clear, and I think our subjects would not gamble on the fortuity. |
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By a fortuitous coincidence, it involves some real handcuffs. |
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The road to the professional drama circuit was rather fortuitous. |
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This fortuitous and timely development supports faculty initiatives. |
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He, and the dynasty he created, were fortuitous survivors of a long succession of hairbreadth escapes. |
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The first thing I should say is that the train of events in 1981 was extremely fortuitous. |
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The fortuitous accessibility of the public telephone system provided the required emergency communication network in this instance. |
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No other condition than the demonstration that the lapse occurred through inadvertence or fortuitous circumstances may be required. |
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The fortuitous and the random create the pre-conditions for the possible sudden appearance of something new. |
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For Sobieski, the leading brand in Poland, the timing of its mid-2007 launch was fortuitous. |
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Mr. Speaker, it may be coincidental or fortuitous that I am following my electoral neighbour, the hon. member for Thunder Bay-Rainy River. |
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It was fortuitous that his client did not spend the surplus that did not exist. |
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Crosscom can under no circumstances be held liable in the event of damage of any kind, be it consequential or fortuitous. |
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There are numerous casual mentions of meetings and consultations between coaches and facilitators, some fortuitous and others deliberate. |
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It is by no means fortuitous that many people are sceptical about the reason for the continued existence of the Security Council. |
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He described it as being happenstance of a fortuitous nature. |
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Sources tell us that Nine saved itself a big sum thanks to this fortuitous family connection, which adds wheels within wheels within wheels to the story. |
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It was a fortuitous decision, because the plaza's roof happened to be crammed with several hundred refugees. |
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It is binding, without distinction, on all those who live under its rule. Even foreigners, during their residency, are the fortuitous subjects of the laws of the State. |
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Neither party will have failed in its contractual obligations, insofar as their execution is delayed, hindered or prevented by a fortuitous event of force majeure. |
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The parties can validly make agreements on mere presumptions of the fortuitousness of events which, in the situations contemplated, are normally due to fortuitous events. |
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At the informal level, there was unplanned and opportunistic sharing that was based on the phone, email, and fortuitous meetings at events such as workshops and conferences. |
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And a most fortuitous one at that: Before the day was out, Bodenmann was at her computer with the imaginary picture in her head, writing the first lines of her second crime novel. |
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That the Cessna was already established in a left orbit was fortuitous, because it created a diverging flight path situation, so no real risk of collision existed. |
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I can assure the honourable Member that the Commission is very adroit and active in organising sufficient support for what it does, but in this case, it was a purely fortuitous occasion. |
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These accomplishments are by no means fortuitous. |
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The only serious disadvantage of this excellent rifle is the difficulty, not to say impossibility, for the gunner, to dismount the mechanism, either to clean it and lubricate it, or for any other fortuitous. |
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Then a fortuitous series of events converged. |
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Certainly, the ideas which form the basis of the individual compositions are not fortuitous, but are probably based on a serious interpretative investigation carried out by the painter himself or his collaborators. |
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And when we listen to the first albums of Current 93, we understand that this place is not fortuitous in the machiavellian and lugubrious sounds of these two artists. |
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The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. |
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Henry's movements may also have been planned to take advantage of saints' days and other fortuitous occasions. |
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Aware that the time is fortuitous for implementing the proposals in this report, the panel urges all parties involved to maximize the synergies to be exploited. |
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This chance meeting between a pilot and the Chief Ambulance Officer for Cornwall was to prove fortuitous. |
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The inswinger took a fortuitous flick off Thomas Gravesen and popped up invitingly for Mario Stanic to head home past goalkeeper Richard Wright. |
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We appreciate that non-intelligent beings, who yield only to blind impulse or instinct, have with each other only fortuitous encounters or periodic engagements devoid of any morality. |
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All of which is why the juxtaposition of these two cases is fortuitous. |
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Had the world been coagmented from that supposed fortuitous jumble, this hypothesis had been tolerable. |
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We'll take it: Italy's Paolo Palmacci got the first goal of his side's match with Russia, after an errant ball took a fortuitous bounce off of his back and into the net. |
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Colombia 1 Venezuela 0 Tressor Moreno's 22nd-minute penalty enabled the holders Colombia to scrape a slightly fortuitous 1-0 victoveroVenezuelauela in the opening match of the tournament. |
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We will then be in a more secure position to convene a meeting of donors who, in any case, may not find the current timing fortuitous for this type of gathering. |
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Living organisms are adapted to their environment, and their occurrence in the St. Lawrence, whether on the floodplain or the riverbed, is neither random nor fortuitous. |
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For pirates in the Atlantic World, trade routes are fortuitous, because of the vast wealth they supply in the way of cargo that moved along the Middle Passage. |
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By happenstance, we showed profit a year ago because of one milestone payment that hit at a fortuitous time, but I am talking about sustained profit. |
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This latest defeat stretches their miserable run to one win in 18 as improving Bury all but ensured survival, courtsey of a fortuitous winner 19 minutes from time. |
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The partnership grew out a fortuitous meeting when Mullen and Lifeway CEO Julie Smolyansky shared stage time during Lifeway YogaFest at Gurney's Montauk this past summer. |
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By total coincidence, however fortuitous, Mr Webb's grandfather was Sir Jack Bean, Midland inventor of the famous Bean motor car, once tipped as a rival to the Model T Ford. |
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