fortuities

Since the beginning of the Syrian uprisings, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been blessed with several fortuities and coincidences that have allowed him, not only to survive, but to maintain his hold on power.

Majid Rafizadeh: Will Assad Survive? Majid Rafizadeh 2011

Myself, after a lifetime of experimentation, I find I prefer the fortuities and disjunctions that arise from eschewing arrangement altogether: my books end up on my shelves according to where I can jam them, which has the advantage of cutting down on random acts of borrowing, as only I know where anything is located.

Dear Clusterflock | clusterflock 2009

They married in May 1980, and from this union tumbled other fortuities.

Who Is John McCain? Tomasky, Michael 2008

It is little remembered today that the political career of John Sidney McCain III, a career now thoroughly laundered in mythology, began with the help of several fortuities.

Who Is John McCain? Tomasky, Michael 2008

No one should be wielding the type of unreviewable power Supreme Court Justices wield for any longer than that, nor should the American legal system be governed by individuals appointed a couple of generations ago, nor should the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court be dictated by the fortuities of the health and longevity of individual Justices.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Supreme Court and the Will to Power: 2004

Where every member of a group shares the same fault, but only one member's fault leads to any harm, and that not because it was more of a fault than that of others, but only because of independent fortuities, many will be inclined to ascribe collective liability to the whole group (Feinberg 1968, p. 687).

Collective Responsibility Smiley, Marion 2005

No one should be wielding the type of unreviewable power Supreme Court Justices wield for any longer than that, nor should the American legal system be governed by individuals appointed a couple of generations ago, nor should the ideological makeup of the Supreme Court be dictated by the fortuities of the health and longevity of individual Justices.

The Volokh Conspiracy » The Supreme Court and the Will to Power: 2004

I tried on and off for several weeks, and then, to be frank, because of timing and health fortuities relating to the pace of litigation, the holidays, and a god-awful ambush of gout, my attention was diverted.

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

I tried on and off for several weeks, and then, to be frank, because of timing and health fortuities relating to the pace of litigation, the holidays, and a god-awful ambush of gout, my attention was diverted.

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993

I tried on and off for several weeks, and then, to be frank, because of timing and health fortuities relating to the pace of litigation, the holidays, and a god-awful ambush of gout, my attention was diverted.

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PATRICIA CORNWELL 1993