Whether by accident or design, you took your revenge on the brother who had not stabbed you.

BBC: Thomas and Daley

Whether by accident or design, procurement officials misled Boeing regarding the basic criteria on which the award would be given.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Contract Dispute

Whether by accident or design, the Obama administration reset the diplomatic stage.

CNN: Commentary: Bill Clinton shows that diplomacy works

Wars have an odd tendency to break out in August, whether by accident (the first world war in 1914) or by design (Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990).

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Whether by design or by accident, Santorum is capitalizing on our collective exhaustion from living in an ever-changing technologically-mediated future.

FORBES: Santorum's Rise and the Shocking Power of Future Shock