Like the government, we are impatient to rid Parliament's upper house of the men and women who sit in it merely by accident of birth.
Simon Conway-Morris, a palaeontologist at Cambridge University, in England, is the champion of a new interpretation of evolution one that challenges the view that it is largely governed by the accident of circumstances.
Of course, producers could switch to making dry white wine or even red, but by an accident of geography and climate, Sauternes is one of the few areas in which conditions are more or less perfect for the production of that distinctive rich, nutty sweetness.
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By an accident of language we use the same term for these products and performance enhancing materials as we do for illicit drugs like crack cocaine and heroin.
By an accident of colonial history, they were separated from Malaysia, with which they share language and religion, and ended up part of Thailand, with its Thai-speaking, Buddhist majority.
It won't happen by accident or out of fiscal necessity, but because Washington Democrats refuse to prioritize federal spending.
But it was during his presidency that the wall was in fact demolished -- and not by some lucky accident but after months of agonizing work by Germans and Americans together.
Two kinds of nuclear plants are most likely to be affected by the accident those of similar reactor type and those that also are located in coastal areas near earthquake faults.
He prepares us to accept the moments of piercing, almost miraculous clarity that arise, as if by accident, at the end of his best films.
Swedish Artemis team member Magnus Augustson told Sweden's daily newspaper Aftonbladet he was shaken by the accident and greatly saddened by the loss of a friend.
Review your policy with your agent in case there is an at-fault accident caused by one of your family members.
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He found his escape route by accident in the summer of 2000.
Police later concluded it was an accident caused by lack of sleep.
And having a love of pop music, we felt that occasionally something we did kind of by accident would connect to a larger public and other things would not.
"All of us at BP deeply regret the tragic loss of life caused by the Deepwater Horizon accident as well as the impact of the spill on the Gulf coast region, " said Bob Dudley, BP's chief executive.
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But Carl explained he had stumbled into the world of athletics by accident.
Rumors are also circulating thick and fast in the garment industry that has been shocked by the scale of the accident and the huge toll of lives.
Work will continue through the night to make safe the site of a house struck by a lorry in an accident that led to the death of a 55-year-old woman.
The circumstances of the crash have been surrounded by controversy since a fatal accident inquiry decided the pilots of the helicopter could not be held responsible.
From the initial phases of his model, you could discover value by accident when you do not have a plan for the type of value you receive but on experimentation discover something useful.
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"I spent a lot of time in hospital after the accident and was told very early on by one of the consultants there that it was very unlikely I would walk again, " said Pc Rees.
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At night I slept in spare lodges, haunted by reccurring dreams of the road accident.
Although she kills them by accident, Dorothy is much more of an American pragmatist and problem-solver a Horatio Alger with a pair of magic shoes than, say, Lewis Carroll's Alice, who mainly wanders about Wonderland eating and drinking things.
They want the individual chosen by the ballot box, not an accident of birth.
The club said its thoughts and prayers were with the families of those affected by the accident in which seven people died.
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For someone who has been crippled in an accident of the sort suffered by Ms Lomas, Dr Contreras-Vidal thinks it will simply be a matter of remembering how you used to walk, and then doing it.
Before going out on the water, boaters can minimize the risk of accident or injury by taking a boating safety course, performing a vessel safety check, filing a float plan with a friend or family member prior to departure, and carefully assessing weather conditions.
The staff - and most of the diners - are dressed in black-and-white in sympathy, and it's probably no accident that by far the most popular of the 80 immaculately presented tortillas on the menu is the colour-coded morcilla de arroz de Burgos: black sausage and white rice.
Because so much of the best of New Labour, or at least of its rhetoric, can be traced back to Ken Livingstone's GLC - perhaps by no accident, as I would have bumped into at least two of Blair's top advisers roaming the corridors of County Hall: Geoff Mulgan and David Miliband.
With its sales in the atomic-power sector falling by a third since the Fukushima accident, India "would be a major focus of business if regulatory clearance is given by the government, " a spokesman said.
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