The safety of the United States under divine protection ought to rest on the basis of systematic and solid arrangements, exposed as little as possible to the hazards of fortuitous circumstances.
Availing himself of fortuitous advantages, he is aiming with his undivided force a deadly blow at our growing prosperity, perhaps at our national existence.
For some time to come it will be possible for the exceptionally able, the exceptionally cunning, and the exceptionally lucky to accumulate great riches through clever and fortuitous utilisation of special advantages, natural and otherwise.
We should eliminate this circumstance from our inquiry, on the ground that from other observations we knew it to be a casual or fortuitous concomitant.
The procedure in Mill's "Method of Agreement" consists in thus eliminating fortuitous antecedents or concomitants till only one remains.
On the assumption that any antecedent in whose absence a phenomenon takes place is not causally connected with it, we set aside or eliminate various antecedents as fortuitous or non-causal.
The essence of what Mill calls the Method of Agreement is really the elimination[1] of accidental, casual, or fortuitous antecedents.
She would say that the barking was an accidental, casual, fortuitous coincidence, and would build no expectation upon it.
What is left except necessities, consequences and the fortuitous in which there is no semblance of divine providence?
Does not nature have its necessities, and are not consequences causes arising from natural or civil order, while the fortuitous comes, does it not, from unknown causes or from none?
True, the devotion of a loving woman, aided by a train of circumstances strikingly fortuitous and little short of miraculous, had averted the final price-paying in penal retribution.
That any such a condition could exist by a series of fortuitous events was out of the question.
Formerly it used to be the "fortuitous concourse of atoms;" now it is the "fortuitous aggregate of molecules.
This seems to exclude a fortuitous growing together of dissimilar areas or cell-masses, for non-parasitic double terata at the least.
I reminded her of our fortuitous meetings, when she trudged by my side through the welter of rain and liquid mud, smoking the fag-end of my last pipe of tobacco.
For putting it off to a fortuitous bump in Bond Street.
As long as the arbitrary and fortuitous are supposed to hold sway inquiry is paralyzed at its starting-point.
The close dependence of the piece upon the chivalric tradition serves to differentiate it from the majority of those we have to consider; while certain external circumstances have combined to give it a fortuitous reputation.
Such results are produced by fortuitous combinations taking place, in the manner which I have already illustrated, at the right time and place.
Whether we choose to designate such concurrences of events at the suitable time and placefortuitous or not, the law which regulates them is wholly unknown, even if they are regulated by law.
The fortuitous combination of forces in nature is capable of producing a new order "contrary to" the previous order of nature.
But Edward Bok has always felt that he was materially helped by fortuitous conditions not of his own creation or choice.
Take, for example, the peculiarly fortuitouscircumstances under which he entered the Scribner publishing house.
It cannot therefore begin to suck, like the mouth of a leech, in a fortuitous or voluntary manner anywhere.
The fortuitous advance of Smith's division, at the very crisis of the struggle, had, in all human probability, rescued the Federal right from a terrible defeat.
Hill's division, which, in conjunction with the Stonewall Brigade, averted the disaster and won the victory, a fortuitous circumstance.
Looking back over the years, he saw much evil for himself, for everything and every one he cared about, and mingled with it there was little good, and that good purely accidental, the result of fortuitous circumstances.
No such fortuitous circumstances would ever again throw him into the arms of a woman,--not such a woman as Doris Cleveland.
The fortuitous success of his Louisbourg expedition had given him a factitious military reputation.
Whatever the fortuitous character of the conquest, there was an attempt made in England to give the chief credit of it to Warren, who never landed a marine during its progress.
It is all very well to know beforehand the kind of line you would wish to take, but spontaneity is a necessary ingredient of talk, and to make up one's mind to get certain stories in, is to deprive talk of its fortuitous charm.
The apparently fortuitous distribution of happiness would alarm and bewilder him.
But species owe as little to the accidental concurrence of environing circumstances as kosmos depends upon a fortuitousconcourse of atoms.
With all beings there must be much fortuitous destruction, which can have little or no influence on the course of natural selection.
We are surely on safe ground in assuming the improbability of such a wholly fortuitous set of events happening a second time and producing the same result elsewhere.
They are purely arbitrary attributes which they have acquired as the result of a peculiar and fortuitous series of historical incidents.
In this article a party was described as a fortuitous concourse of atoms,--a phrase supposed to have been used for the first time many years afterwards by Lord John Russell.
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.
Is it, then, philosophical to take refuge in the fortuitous concourse of atoms as a cause of specific disease, merely because in special cases the parentage may be indistinct?
Hal Surtaine found himself supporting the weight of a fortuitouscitizen who had just made his way up the aisle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fortuitous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
