This portfolio appears to be the product of a grand strategy, but McCaw attributes it to mere happenstance.
Maybe happenstance, but there was a complete disconnect between the two parts of the call.
Fogerty's lyrics show that it's not happenstance, but rather a deliberate move on his part.
However, by historical happenstance the MLR provisions were set when investment returns were already very low.
We did not achieve global leadership in the last century by luck or by happenstance.
By happenstance, a Blendax licensee in Thailand named Chaleo Yoovidhya also owned a tonic drink company.
Happenstance in one appointment three or more decades before could effectively set important areas of government policy today.
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The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance.
Just as importantly, the coalition has learned that the messy happenstance of everyday government can be disruptive and demoralising.
Part is also happenstance: birth rates are high in some large, arid stretches of Africa and the Middle East.
"Occasionally, the Olympic family has come in handy, but even getting investors through it has been mainly happenstance, " she says.
Instructively, it was mere happenstance that their arrest even came to the attention of civil-rights advocates in the first place.
In other cases, there is nothing happenstance about the negative result because the intent was to jam-up the former employee.
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"He makes a mistake, and to me that's not a mistake, it's just happenstance, " Tortorella said of the Game 2 penalty.
Parts of inexplicable circles, drawn or incised on the light-colored wall behind him, give an air of happenstance to his position.
Later additions, such as incorporation of the European Convention, are mostly down to happenstance, including the proclivities of individual Labour spokesmen.
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The year is not happenstance: 1896 was when Jimmy Doolittle was born.
In fact, what happened at that election was neither luck nor happenstance.
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It was happenstance that the day Leading With Honor found its way to our mailbox, Tell to Win by Peter Guber also showed up.
If the economy is governed by historical happenstance, not timeless laws, and subject to imponderable contingencies, not calculable risks, then the economist may have precious little to say.
Lives hang in the balance, and yet we have typically relied for our choices on happenstance offhand referrals, late nights at the office, or the dream of meeting cute.
Our presidents still, from time to time, sleep among us, but whatever feeling of lighthearted happenstance was implicit in the "George Washington slept here" slogan is long gone.
But, almost by happenstance, the result has been lower costs.
By happenstance, just two weeks later, French fashion magnate Bernard Arnault disclosed that his company, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, acquired a 17 percent stake in Hermes International.
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In a low-scoring sport in which luck and happenstance play a huge role some analytic types suggest as much as 50% of the outcome is down to chance it's a small sample size.
Paul Leonard is the manager of Upper Dublin Township, a suburb of Philadelphia, says he recently discovered through happenstance that there's a major fiber-optic cable running just yards from his office.
By happenstance, some of the new bonds Greece has issued in its restructuring have a market price close to the total value of the package creditors received about 22 cents on the euro.
The interesting distorted guitar on the track, an innovation in itself, was another piece of happenstance: somebody dropped the amplifier, or the rain leaked in on it, as the band drove from Clarksdale to Memphis.
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