"Corruption," the People's Daily said in a front-page editorial last week, "is an inevitable accompaniment of social progress."

They have also designed the stuffed animals and other assorted paraphernalia that nowadays are the inevitable accompaniment to any successful children's publishing venture.

The final section was the market, the central energy point of trade, with the inevitable accompaniment of bustle and noise.

The political response is the necessary and inevitable accompaniment to the metaphysical dilemma.

An ambitious man-child already was Buddy, accustomed to certain phrases that, since he could toddle, had formed inevitable accompaniment to his investigative footsteps.

Both patients and their doctors tend to assume that fatigue is an inevitable accompaniment of cancer and that nothing much can be done about it.

One of the first things that he and Dr. Silver found was that senility was not an inevitable accompaniment to old age.

Stock performances all - perhaps an inevitable accompaniment to "M. Butterfly's" descent from the rare into the commonplace.

This is pretty amazing and should not be rationalised away as an inevitable accompaniment of a longer-term move towards services.