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"I think the fact that there's an impact is pretty definite. There are too many markers there for it all to be coincidence or happenstance explanations," Firestone said. "What will be debated is whether the extent of the impact was sufficient, for instance, to kill all of the megafauna or whether other factors were also equally important. (www.foxnews.com..../evolution)
A few weeks ago, I spent two days with a group that inspired me in ways none of my previous friends of travel happenstance can claim, and, perhaps not surprisingly, I met them in New Zealand, the friendliest and most inspiring place Iāve ever visited (windowseat.travelocity.com...._Outdoors/)
A few weeks ago, I spent two days with a group that inspired me in ways none of my previous friends of travel happenstance can claim, and, perhaps not surprisingly, I met them in New Zealand, the friendliest and most inspiring place Iāve ever visite (windowseat.trav....m/2007/11/)
I just found this website by happenstance . I love the idea of simply manifesting peace. But I think if you want to eradicate war, you are in serious need of an education of what causes war. The solution is always enveloped in the problem. Always (fakesteve.blogspot.com....rward.html)
But while her experiences have added up at this point to what some would consider a noteworthy career, Suttonās initial choice of serving in the Army over the other services was mostly happenstance , if not serendipitous. (www.defenselink.mil....x?id=48779)
Me, I score this one to the city. You can call it chance or happenstance , but I don't think it was just by the grace of Lady Luck the best debate so far happened to be in Las Vega (www.npr.org..../index.xml)
A few weeks ago, I spent two days with a group that inspired me in ways none of my previous friends of travel happenstance can claim, and, perhaps not surprisingly, I met them in New Zealand, the friendliest and most inspiring place Iāve ever visited. (windowseat.travelocity.com....helle.html)
Perhaps not by happenstance , Reiner's endorsement will be made official on the same day that a leading Republican presidential candidate is hoping to make a large endorsement splash in California. (latimesblogs.latimes.com....n/2007/09/)
Dave Rodman: David, I agree. But six of eight isn't draft-borne happenstance . Penske's teamwork continues to impress, and you had to like the fact that Sam Hornish Jr . got a top-15 - and that both he and Dario Franchitti emerged unscathed after a rough lead-up to Speedweeks (www.nascar.com....alifornia/)
In conjunction with the exhibition The Clutter of Happenstance :Photographs by Robert Cumming (March 19-June 15, 1998),the artist has created this Web project. This work is based onCumming's photographic diptych Academic Shading Exercise, 1975 (www.moma.org....s/cumming/)
Republicans believe hard work wins, and government should allow you ? to the fullest extent possible ? to keep what you earn. Democrats believe that success results from luck, chance and happenstance , and therefore a just government takes from those who have and gives to those who do not (www.worldnetdaily.com....geId=45587)
Perhaps not by happenstance , Reiner's endorsement will be made official on the same day that a leading Republican presidential candidate is hoping to make a large endorsement splash in California. (latimesblogs.latimes.com....holly.html)
If your idea of a man is simply a collection of chemicals, randomly mixed, simply a happenstance of time and chance . You hold to the idea that this same man is nothing more than an evolved monkey, a glorified earthworm, a mutated squirrel, acted upon by circumstance, environment, and relationships. Then those ideas have consequences. (www.boundlessline.org....n-day.html)
Me, I score this one to the city. You can call it chance or happenstance , but I don't think it was just by the grace of Lady Luck the best debate so far happened to be in Las Vegas (www.npr.org....n/2007/11/)
Yet another picture that's not posed at all. From the fortuitous happenstance of Mother and Sis wearing the exact. same. outfit to Mother's smirk, this picture screams Spontaneity (dowhatnow.typepad.com....w/2007/06/)
By a lucky happenstance for Gobbell, getting canned from her old job turned into an opportunity. When Kerry's campaign heard what happened to her, he called Gobbell personally to offer her a job with his campaign, and she jumped at the chanc (www.foxnews.com....ne,00.html)
Ahhh.all finished. And just in time for the arrival yesterday of my new love-seat for the library nook. I couldn't be happier about that little bit of happenstance either (turkeyfeathers.typepad.com....s/2007/10/)
Look, if she does, in fact, see the Iranian foreign minister, I think that there would be some organization to it. It wouldn't just be by happenstance , he said. (blogs.abcnews.com....r/2007/04/)
kawata. no offense :) just layered and cutted the tracks in live back in the days. and, didn't want to say its ripped (because nobody except some friends of mine ever heard it) but anyway. kind of a happenstance that we used the same tracks :) (palmsout.blogspot.com....ay-90.html)
STEVE ELLIS: Well, it's really hard to draw that line, as a matter of fact. I mean, it's unclear whether the best road projects happen to be in the most powerful lawmakers' districts or whether that just happens to be happenstance (www.pbs.org....12-20.html)
By a lucky happenstance for Gobbell, getting canned from her old job turned into an opportunity. When Kerry's campaign heard what happened to her, he called Gobbell personally to offer her a job with his campaign, and she jumped at the chance (news.lp.findlaw.com....00_10.html)
Jason's work is about a lot of lofty ideas, but those ideas are grounded in the most mundane of media and happenstance . The ideas center around his ambitions to interact authentically with both the media he chooses to work in and the collectors who buy his work (www.kottke.org/08/02/)
Unfortunately, cases like Dickerson are the exception, rather than the norm. Under the sway of an expansive notion of the case-or-controversy limit, the Court frequently permits poor advocacy because of the happenstance of who represents the particular parties that appear before it (writ.lp.findlaw.com....61120.html)
Did you think that the crowd just yelled, "Move that bus!" all on its own intuitive? Not on your tintype. Virginia said the production crowd made them practice for two hours. That may have been a little bit of an exaggeration; however, they wouldn't leave something as important as that to mere happenstance (www.elpasotimes.com....ci_8327423)
What distinguishes the U.S., then, may simply be historical happenstance , not singular arrogance. That is, the U.S. may have the misfortune of being the first nation both to confront the failings of the Charter, and the U.N. itself, while having the power to defy both. (writ.lp.findlaw.com....30322.html)
It was an unbelievable week, with the unfortunate happenstance of missed SNL skits these last few weeks of the writers' strikes- All that you write about could have been hilariously spoofed on SNL (www.huffingtonpost.com....73142.html)
Republicans believe hard work wins, and government should allow you - to the fullest extent possible - to keep what you earn. Democrats believe that success results from luck, chance and happenstance , and therefore a just government takes from those who have and gives to those who do not (www.humanevents.com....p?id=24513)
Perhaps it's not happenstance that you and Essam met at the Mosque. Perhaps it is fate, one of the men says. Turnip Head Claire holds her baby and says she is fine. Charlie and Sun insist she needs rest, but Claire is afraid someone will take the baby. Charlie says, I can take care of Turnip Head for awhile. (lost.about.com....1x21_2.htm)
Even if mermaids did exist - which, I'm sorry, Virginia, they do not - the odds against that happenstance are beyond astronomical, as Mr. Cabana himself would have to admit (urbanlegends.about.com....rcass4.htm)
MR. MCCORMACK: (Laughter.) Right. Right. Look, if - you know, if she does in fact see the Iranian Foreign Minister, I think that there would be some organization to it. It wouldn't just be by happenstance . Yeah (www.state.gov..../83993.htm)
Perhaps it's not happenstance that you and Essam met at the Mosque. Perhaps it is fate, one of the men says. Essam Episode 1x21, The Greater Good Flashback (lost.about.com....lash_4.htm)
I've probably screwed up some of this. Religiously, I'm a lapsed agnostic, so I don't even remember what I don't care about. And maybe it’s all wild happenstance . This could be so utterly, buffoonishly wrong. Which would be cool, too. I like a good laugh as much as anybody (www.bobharris.com....ew/1406/1/)
You permeated everything, everything I touched, my clothes, my hair, my very breath from your toxic kisses. After a particularly rough happenstance in my life , I leant on you heavily, and I felt so bad, so covered in ichor and the pain didn't dissipate even remotely, and I knew, I knew it was the beginning of the end. (quitsmoking.abo....1/a/44.htm)
Within big organizations, the development of leaders does not occur by happenstance . For better or worse , most companies get the leaders they deserve. It is no accident that a few of the best companies go on-year after year-producing the best leaders. They know the kind of leadership they want. They define it, model it, teach it, expect it, measure it, and reward it (www.boeing.com....71106.html)
I think the difference is sufficient to suggest that the warmth this past winter was more than just happenstance relative to the winter of 1936& The warmth of winter 2005-06 is consistent with the overall trend of U&S& winter temps since the middle of the 20th century as shown on this map and this graph , and the trend in Canada (www.weather.com....00607.html)
But there's another line of research that could give us important insights: we could investigate how species become intelligent. If the process that drives species to higher IQ depends on contingency and happenstance , we might infer that thinking is a rare talent. If not, then we can confidently expect plenty of sophisticated galactic brethren (www.space.com....41028.html)
Trendsetters may no longer be the term of the new millennium maybe hip is giving way to hap as in happenstance . I am waiting for my 15 year-old to use that term "he is so hap" and I will know I am on to something (blog.searchengi....log/080101)
Steve Molnau said Saturday that the timing of the sale was happenstance ; a Pulte representative was in their home in May of 2000 after several months of very serious negotiations (www.startribune.com....09507.html)
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