• He enrolls at a local college, where his teacher, in a sparsely attended class, is played by Julia Roberts and is also, by a helpful coincidence, heading toward the exit of a stale marriage.

    NEWYORKER: Larry Crowne

  • But, by a weird coincidence, Angelos and Al Davis were born on the same day, July 4, 1929.

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  • By a merry coincidence, Hubert, too, turns out to be a woman underneath, baring an unmistakable and frankly regal bosom to make her point.

    NEWYORKER: Material Girls

  • Ours, by a happy coincidence, seem always to be just right.

    BBC: Fed gives itself a new target

  • It'd be nice to think that the recent surge in overtly racist rhetoric on the right has been a case of random opportunism, provoked by the coincidence of a wealthy black Harvard professor yelling at a white cop who arrested him in his own home.

    NPR: The Nation: Race, Lies And Health Scares

  • Its maiden flight, last January, came only hours before a visit by the US Defence Secretary Robert Gates to Beijing, a coincidence which many analysts saw as a deliberate signal by China.

    BBC: China extending military reach

  • By sheer coincidence, a programme to study it had just begun, so dozens of the world's telescopes - from visible to radio to gamma-ray - were watching.

    BBC: Blazar Markarian 421's flare-up is cosmic coincidence

  • By coincidence it has published a report on Thursday calling for a re-think in how services are organised.

    BBC: Closing NHS services: the impossible job?

  • By coincidence, this was a decision which benefited Corinthians.

    BBC: Corinthians have the Brazilian title within their sights

  • When asked by the BBC if this was a coincidence a spokesperson said in the case of Lisburn it was considered that the development might be linked to the Lagan Valley hospital and would have greater impact than a smaller project.

    BBC: New health centres for Lisburn and Newry

  • Vilane says he came across climbing "by coincidence" while working as a game ranger in Swaziland.

    CNN: Walking to the South Pole

  • By coincidence, the two performed a spacewalk at this troublesome spot before, during a shuttle visit in 2009.

    WSJ: Spacewalkers Replace Space Station Pump

  • Not by coincidence, Juarez is also a model for the capitalist economy.

    FORBES: Is the Drug War the Natural Result of Capitalism?

  • By a useful (though hardly unexpected) coincidence, all the businessmen were male and all were white, so there were no confounding variables of race or sex.

    ECONOMIST: Physiognomy and success: Face value | The

  • The timing of London Lite was said by its owners to have been a fortuitous coincidence, but many on Fleet Street saw a savvy attempt to spoil Murdoch's plans.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But, by coincidence, he then discovered a group of scientists working on a mouse called Peromyscus that possesses the same less active variation of the MC1R gene as mammoths did.

    ECONOMIST: The genetics of mammoth coat colour

  • By coincidence, photo retailer Photojojo featured a pointer on its Twitter feed today to the pop culture blog Accidental Mysteries, and a lovely spread on Camera Comics, a 1940s comic-book series glamorizing the work of historical photographers like Matthew Brady and fictional heroes like Jim Lane Insurance Investigator!

    FORBES: The (Real) Heroism Of (Some) Photographers

  • It is widely believed by students of the field that this was not a coincidence.

    ECONOMIST: Climate change and civilisation

  • In a remarkable coincidence, he was represented by the same attorneys who had represented McKinniss, Videtto and Sugawara.

    FORBES

  • Last month he dispensed the man-of-the-match award at Sri Lanka's opening game of the cricket world cup, which took place in a newly built stadium in by happy coincidence his own constituency, Hambantota, in the south of the country.

    ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka: The son also rises | The

  • But when Brown spoke to some of these women individually, she realized that they had largely detected lumps by coincidence -- they happened to notice a change in their bodies -- rather than during a formal self-exam at a scheduled time of the month.

    CNN: Breast 'awareness' trumps self-exams, docs say

  • "Mr Rodgers has offered no explanation for the presence of his palm prints in that car, " he said, adding that if there was any question as to them getting there by any "unfortunate coincidence... that is resolved by the revelation that in 1974 he carried out a further sectarian murder".

    BBC: Robert Rodgers accused of 1973 murder of Eileen Doherty

  • Part One: I will continue to blog on stocks and the election until Nov. 4, on which day, by coincidence, I will be at sea hosting a Forbes investor cruise.

    FORBES: Time For A Change

  • By coincidence, the central bank on Monday approved a new rule designed to protect consumers from deceptive lending practices, including advertising practices that say interest rates are fixed when in fact they're not.

    FORBES: The Fed As Super-Regulator

  • Drawing on Warren Buffett's observation that it cannot be a coincidence that a group of investors taught by Benjamin Graham can make above average returns, Mr Mallaby presents original research on the performance of a group of fund managers who worked with Julian Robertson at Tiger Management, and similarly reveals superior returns.

    ECONOMIST: Learning and learning

  • Whether the seam-friendly surfaces this year are a coincidence or the result of a sensible decision by the league, they've made it a far more engaging competition.

    WSJ: IPL Is Serving Up a Spicy Menu

  • The somewhat unusual legal structure of USAA -- the fact that it is owned by its auto and property policyholders -- is not entirely a coincidence here.

    FORBES: The Funds: The Vanguard of Texas

  • By coincidence, SingTel, too, is run by a well-connected second son with a degree from Stanford University: Lee Hsien Yang, son of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father and senior minister.

    ECONOMIST: Asian telecoms

  • Bishop Saxbee, who is due to retire in January, said past ceremonies had been followed by a reduction in road deaths, which was "perhaps not a coincidence".

    BBC: Gritter

  • Bishop Saxbee, who is due to retire in January, said past events had been followed by a reduction in road deaths, which was "perhaps not a coincidence".

    BBC: Gritter

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