fortuitous event

He knew the series of fortuitous events that led to his acceptance.

I, too, have taken driving up several times and been saved by the bell, or some other fortuitous event.

But a series of fortuitous events allowed the assemblage for the new store to occur.

The early drafts always had him getting rescued from the island at some point, through a fortuitous event.

There were many fortuitous events in this battle that facilitated the surprise attack.

A miracle, by contrast, is often considered a fortuitous event attributed to divine intervention.

Then you can sprinkle in the uniquely personal aspects of your journey, its fortuitous events and encounters.

"And as I indicated before, there is serendipity-some fortuitous event or development might yet turn things to our advantage.

Some pretty fortuitous events," he says, "the death of a witness on the eve of testimony.

"Cabaret" was the first show for which the marketing and casting departments of the theater had to deal with such a fortuitous event.

Supplementary texts were added to celebrate any personal patron, family saint, special circumstances, or a fortuitous event.

The vastness of their habitat and its sparse population make procreative encounters a fortuitous event.

Then a fortuitous event occurred.

Through a series of fortuitous events, Anne is finally able to follow her dreams and go to Redmond University.

That moment sets the tone and foreshadows all the seemingly fortuitous events that will alter the lives of the principal characters.

That is usually down to timing of announcements which conveniently coincide with a series of fortuitous events leading up to a decisive date (election).

Others claim it as a fortuitous event in allowing the Pope to excite popular opinion and to renew his pleas for intervention in the south.

One aspect of witchcraft is the craftiness, and it's seldom unwise to take the credit for unexplained but fortuitous events. '

In Britain, the victory was considered one of several fortuitous events that constituted the Annus Mirabilis of 1759.

"Xerox PARC was a fortuitous event.

"What you describe as a success story for U.S.D.A. policy could more accurately be depicted as a fortuitous event," he wrote.

Since the fortuitous event involved a 'bridge', the townspeople like to believe that it was the handiwork of their patron saint San Juan Nepomuceno.

It is only as deaths of red or green moths in that environment that these are fortuitous events; this fortuitousness being, as philosophers say, description relative.

"Two fortuitous events have intersected in time," said Richard D. Emery, the civil rights lawyer who brought the suit that led to the Supreme Court decision.

This fortuitous event had a significant impact on the attack, as the Saxons in the village now thought themselves surrounded and at once broke and retreated in disorder.