Could one not say that, in the fortuitous combinations of the productions of nature, as there must be some characterized by a certain relation of fitness which are able to subsist, it is not to be wondered at that this fitness is present in all the species that are currently in existence?

Government revenues largely come from the lease of its highly fortuitous. tv Top Level Domain ( TLD ); sales of stamps and coins ; fishing licenses ( primarily paid under the South Pacific Tuna Treaty ); direct grants from international donors ( government donors as well as from the Asian Development Bank ); and income from the Tuvalu Trust Fund ( established in 1987 by the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand ).

The persistence of this rainforest is believed to be a product of a fortuitous continental drift ; after the breakup of its parent supercontinent a portion drifted toward the pole to become Antarctica, disturbing ocean currents and becoming quite chilly, while other portions were moved to hotter and drier locations.

C. L. Bauer, 1793 – 1801 ), one of the last developments of the study of Latin grammar in its pre-scientific stage, when the phenomena of language were still regarded as for the most part disconnected, conventional or fortuitous.

Andersen Consulting's change of name proved to be fortuitous as it avoided the taint when Arthur Andersen was effectively dissolved as a result of its role in the later Enron scandal.

However, while Kirchner's reliance on price controls and similar administrative measures ( often aimed primarily at foreign-invested firms such as utilities ) clearly ran counter to the spirit of the Consensus, his administration in fact ran an extremely tight fiscal ship and maintained a highly competitive floating exchange rate ; Argentina's immediate bounce-back from crisis, further aided by abrogating its debts and a fortuitous boom in prices of primary commodities, leaves open issues of longer-term sustainability.

The timing of the uprising was fortuitous, as between October 1918 and the first months of 1919, internal conflict had weakened Germany, with soldiers and sailors rebelling against the monarchy and its hawkish generals.

The vastness of their habitat and its sparse population make procreative encounters a fortuitous event.

However, the Sun is much more complex than assumed by this model — both its temperature and density vary strongly with radius — and such excellent agreement (≈ 7 % relative error ) is partly fortuitous.

However, the team was able to set up camp south of the river at Murdoch University due to a few fortuitous links to its students.

KFI was assigned its present call letters and ended up with its 640 kHz operating frequency, a fortuitous happening, since radio signal propagation seems to be better at low end of the AM band than at the upper end.

In the first of two pieces by Wolfe in New York detailing the growth of the new nonfiction and its techniques, Wolfe returned to the fortuitous circumstances surrounding the construction of Kandy-Kolored and added:

His choice of music school was fortuitous as the New England Conservatory of Music had as its President in the 1970s the composer / historian, Gunther Schuller.

When such pairs of recordings have been located and matched up, authentic stereophonic sound has been recovered, its character and degree of spatial accuracy dependent on the fortuitous placement of the two microphones and the accurate synchronization of the two recordings.

St Mary's, when William Wardell's plan was realised, was to be a much larger, more imposing and more sombre structure than the pretty little St Andrew's and, because of its fortuitous siting, still dominates many views of the city despite the high-rise buildings.

However, the Order of Calatrava owes its origin not to any deliberately prepared plan, but to fortuitous circumstances, the recital of which would seem to be mere romance if the teller, Rodrigo of Toledo, did not add that he himself had known in his youth the hero of the story.

Although Marshall has historically been an agricultural community, its fortuitous designation as one of 5 service districts within Fauquier County, and exclusively within northern Fauquier County, has resulted in a renaissance of business and professional service offerings to the mostly equestrian and agricultural interests in the surrounding region.

In 2001, taking advantage of this fortuitous opportunity for a Winger revival, it was announced that all original members of the band ( including both Taylor and Roth ) would return to the studio to record the song " On the Inside " for The Very Best of Winger.

This jingle was patterned on the famous vaudeville song / sketch Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean ; while it is likely the name Mr Sheen was also inspired by this song, and the fortuitous connection between sheen and cleanliness, it is unknown at this point whether there is a causal connection or not.

According to Rabelais, the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel, " Pantagruelism ", is rooted in " a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things " ( French: " une certaine gaîté d ' esprit confite dans le mépris des choses fortuites ").

Before Leakey's fortuitous decision to anoint Galdikas as the third of his " Angels ", the orangutan was much less understood than the African great apes.

A fortuitous meeting with Bertone at the Turin Auto Show in 1952 resulted in four collaborative efforts between Arnolt and Bertone.

This fortuitous " dudding " of four simultaneous attempted bombings may have been due to the low quality hydrogen peroxide used in the devices, which had been obtained from a large number of readily available sources.

But the two Gaelic claimants were soon back to fighting and the fortuitous capture of Mathgamain in 976 by Donnubán mac Cathail allowed him to be effortlessly dispatched or murdered by Máel Muad, who would now rule as king of Cashel for two years.

) While these locations are largely the legacy of the region's historical importance as a Japanese-American population center, it has proven fortuitous for two reasons: first, it enables closer oversight of vehicle import operations at the nearby ports ; and second, it gives them proximity to the automobile customization culture that is prominent in nearby South Los Angeles.

Because of a fortuitous near coincidence between the energy levels of the two He metastable states, and the 3s < sub > 2 </ sub > and 2s < sub > 2 </ sub > ( Paschen notation ) levels of neon, collisions between these helium metastable atoms and ground state neon atoms results in a selective and efficient transfer of excitation energy from the helium to neon.

The 42-ton Ligera, which had driven off Foote two weeks earlier in a fortuitous encounter off harbour's mouth, was under Lieutenant Antonio Pérez Rendón, while Alerta, of the same tonnage, was under Lieutenant Pasquín.

It is debatable how much of the ultimate success of the crusade ( the most successful since the First in territorial terms ) was attributable to Theobald's intentions and how much was just fortuitous.

This had the fortuitous effect of burying their faces and so preserving most of the hieroglyphs from the effects of weathering.

The 2000 Census showed that ZIP Code 10307, essentially coterminous with Tottenville ( a fortuitous circumstance as most neighborhoods of New York City do not have officially recognized boundaries ) had a population of 9, 207, whose median age was 35. 4, and the zip code's per-capita income was found to be $ 27, 688.

He is a notable sports enthusiast, a fortuitous coincidence as " Loughborough is home to the most comprehensive sports development programme of any University ," as well as being headquarters for Team GB's 2012 Olympic preparation, whose requirements Reed became familiar with under the Parliamentary Sports Fellowship Scheme.

In his Bonaparte ( 1978 ), he takes a more critical view of Napoleon Bonaparte than is customary, portraying him almost as a Mediterranean bandit keen to dish out crowns and honours to cronies and members of his blood family, and stressing how much many of his most famous successes owed to bluff and luck ( e. g. the fortuitous arrival of General Louis Desaix at the Battle of Marengo ).

The war would be a dark chapter in Argentine history, but would have the paradoxical effect of creating one of the most fortuitous circumstances in the history of any rock genre.

This fortuitous misunderstanding opened for Gemelli many of the most tightly closed doors of the country.

It was a fortuitous accident: in his laboratory in the basement of St. Mary's Hospital in London ( now part of Imperial College ), Fleming noticed a Petri dish containing Staphylococcus plate culture he mistakenly left open, was contaminated by blue-green mould, which formed a visible growth.

According to the Chinese zodiac Lee was born in both the hour and the year of the Dragon which in this cultural tradition is considered a strong and fortuitous omen.

After Longstreet's death, his second wife Helen privately published Lee and Longstreet at High Tide in his defense, in which she stated " the South was seditiously taught to believe that the Federal Victory was wholly the fortuitous outcome of the culpable disobedience of General Longstreet.

In contrast to an Oldowan tool, which is the result of a fortuitous and probably ex tempore operation to obtain one sharp edge on a stone, an Acheulean tool is a planned result of a manufacturing process.

The battle above Khitomer was one of the last sequences to be shot, which proved fortuitous as the bridge of the Enterprise was damaged by the simulated sparks and explosions.

He had several chance encounters with aviators, including a fortuitous incident in which he repaired a stranded aircraft for T. F. Dodd, a man who later became General John J. Pershing's aviation officer and an important contact in Rickenbacker's attempt to join air combat.

In the descriptive sense, luck is a word people give after the occurrence of events which they find to be fortuitous or unfortuitous, and perhaps improbable.

What lived in time belonged to eternity ; the microcosm was the epitome of the macrocosm ;, the reason which reigned in man interpreted the law that was revealed in conscience and the power which governed human destiny, while the freedom which man realized was the direct negation both of necessity and of the operation of any fortuitous cause in the cosmos.

The light loss of life ( which they set at 2, 041 ) is attributed to a number of fortuitous circumstances, including earthquake education in the previous months ( prompted by elevated seismic activity ), local initiative, timing ( occurring when people were neither working nor asleep ), and local style of construction.

This fortuitous discovery spurred massive SU-152 production and the formation of self-propelled artillery units, which then functioned as ersatz heavy tank destroyer battalions.

The book's title is explained in the foreword, which is narrated by an unnamed French officer who describes his fortuitous discovery of an intriguing Spanish manuscript during the sack of Zaragoza in 1809, in the course of the Napoleonic Wars.

While later Arabic sources make the conquest of Hispania a singular event undertaken at the orders of the governor Musa ibn Nosseyr of Ifriqiya, according to the Chronicle, which was written much nearer in date to the actual events, the Arabs began disorganised raids and only undertook to conquer the peninsula with the fortuitous death of Roderic and the collapse of the Visigothic nobility.

One Munrung is afflicted with sinus problems, a normally unpleasant situation but which proves fortuitous to this story's successful conclusion.

This proved fortuitous for the cruiser Warrior which had been severely damaged at this same spot by German fire, but managed to limp away covered by the circling Warspite.

There is a second, more fortuitous, way in which non-decimal currencies emerged.

In fact, the timing of Tanner's visit was fortuitous since Early Winters had a lightweight, single-walled tent design for which they were seeking a waterproof and breathable fabric solution.

The best known, which in Poland became a byword for fortuitous careerism, was The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (, 1932 ).