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Usage examples of "chance event".
Prophecy cannot see a blood beast any more than it can see any chaotic, chance event.
In the early stages of an experiment one can argue with the phenomenon - that it is a chance event, or not unequivocal or whatever.
But when the available variation ran out, the changes would stall, until a new mutation came along, a chance event caused, perhaps, by radiation effects, that opened up new possibilities for variation.
It was the designation of an orbiting observatory that had been destroyed by the billions-to-one-against chance event of being hit by a sizable meteor during the annual Perseids shower.
Ferocity here is hidden in debauchery, like a serpent hidden in its own slime, here all that is required is some chance event and this bad place will be transformed into a death trap.
The process had taken years, for his love had been great though suspect, and on occasion some chance event still could let leak a trickle of blood.
Had some chance event, twenty-seven years ago, tipped the balance?
And then their seeds lie dormant, for as long as necessary, waiting for the next chance event, perhaps as long as a billion years.
Just as a human being may have a stroke, though some chance event within the brain and without the intervention of any external effect, so a humaniform brain might, through chance alone-the occasional aimless drifting of positrons-go into mental freeze.
To he sure, it is possible that Amadiros investigation may have increased the odds of such a chance event taking place, but I would not argue the matter.
It was only a chance event, that of a night of heavy rain, which saved the day, washing as it did the Jubilee labels from the bottles to reveal that they contained nothing more than standard brown ale.
It would be inconceivable for the same chance event to occur spontaneously and simultaneously in many distinct and unrelated lines.