| There were too many coincidences to take everything in stride as pure happenstance. |
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| In them, he records the poetic ways happenstance and necessity converge in daily life. |
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| What world does the CBC inhabit where happenstance or tragic accident are always already made sense of through the lens of political calculation? |
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| But, nevertheless, the happenstance still makes me feel that fate likes to smile every so often upon the introverted bookworms of the world. |
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| Most top athletes despise the notion of luck, with its amateurish connotations of fluke and happenstance. |
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| It all seems transient, happenstance, until you start concentrating on the apparently artless compositions of these powerful images. |
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| There is a large degree of economic happenstance governing the trend, observers like Palmer say. |
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| The happenstance of the love for the tree house, ostensibly built for the children, might well have been your undoing. |
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| Each one, responding to happenstance and circumstance and accident, has assumed a shape not quite like that of any other tree of its kind. |
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| The evolutionary process is rife with happenstance, contingency, incredible waste, death, pain and horror. |
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| The question of whether you are true artists or the fortunate benefactors of happenstance cannot be answered until you make a second film. |
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| That this action mimics the US Republicans' 1995 shutdown of Congress is no happenstance. |
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| By happenstance, it is on loan to the American museum circuit, so I did not get to see it. |
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| Some events do occur by chance or happenstance, but the baseline of governmental policy and media spin is far from accidental. |
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| I want her to know the best of our world, not stumble from happenstance to happenstance without guidance and support. |
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| If the key is to not actively search for something, then why don't more common people stumble upon such experiences of happenstance? |
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| By sheer happenstance, the challenge of skyrocketing butterfat prices coincided with the waning economy. |
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| It really makes you think about crimes vs. accidents and intentions vs. happenstance. |
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| Time constraints and a lack of transportation often prevent happenstance visitors from visiting the park directly. |
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| It may seem like happenstance, but it's a tremendous opportunity: very few people come into contact with it. |
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| Is it happenstance or because she was a staff member of a former Conservative minister? |
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| We do this only on our own and only through happenstance or good or bad fortune. |
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| The collocation of the JSRC in the CAOC did not occur by happenstance. |
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| But they took action to transform happenstance into something larger. |
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| It may be that just by accident or happenstance this has come to be. |
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| Complexity is a consequence of chance and happenstance, not design. |
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| He described it as being happenstance of a fortuitous nature. |
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| There are many players who, through choice or happenstance, end up creating a look that perfectly captures their sporting style. |
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| All of these differences add up to make each planet unique, a product of happenstance and history. |
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| The success that followed 16 years later was a matter of happenstance, not of strategy. |
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| The pragmatists argue that the problems are just a matter of competence and happenstance. |
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| District managers, however, are faced with a crazy quilt of funding streams for purposes that match the district's strategic priorities only by happenstance, if at all. |
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| We have data that run up to 48 hours, because of happenstance rather than on purpose. |
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| I mean conscious choices and not the mindless kind, the happenstance decisions that come and go like the wind. |
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| However, I can also say that by happenstance I had a Colombian citizen visit me in my office in Abbotsford. |
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| Perhaps the people involved thought it would be needed and by happenstance it was not. |
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| It is not by happenstance or a lack of knowledge about how the economy works. |
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| A decision as important as who is or is not to be prosecuted should not depend on the happenstance of who is assigned to the case. |
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| Aside from that happenstance, having multiple sittings points for motions is very dubious. |
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| Commercialization activities are a happenstance of research or operations and not usually as a primary objective. |
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| We need something more than happenstance to protect the privacy of Canadians when departments transfer personal information beyond our borders. |
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| But the past year has brought a rise of new filtering methods that, intentionally or by happenstance, are considerably more confusing. |
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| Thrown together by sheer happenstance, their lives will be entwined for decades to come. |
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| I also had some luck and happenstance along the way. |
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| It is not mere happenstance that the Bretton Woods institutions-the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank-came into being in the wake of the war. |
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| Now imagine hard data substituting for happenstance. |
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| My point is that there has been, by happenstance, a gap in our law. |
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| Relations with newcomers are therefore often the result of happenstance. |
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| It is pure happenstance that I am here the day before the Minister of Finance brings down the federal budget, and a few days before the Minister is here himself. |
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| It's all a matter of never taking our progress for granted, never assuming that we achieved the strength we enjoy today by happenstance, never getting careless with the principles of fiscal responsibility. |
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| It's not clear whether journalists were the actual targets of the email harvesting or just included by happenstance. |
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| It was as if they had gone out dressed for the Debutantes' Ball and had been marooned by happenstance in the palace kitchens. |
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| Whether their appearance in the record has any significance or whether it is just happenstance is unclear. |
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| Other than the happenstance, I do not claim this as an original idea. |
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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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| Happenstance opened the book for me to the biography of Margaret Leeson, listed only as Brothel-keeper. |
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