The evolution of the loyalists position is not coincidental.

Coming on the heels of Yushchenko's alleged poisoning, the timing of the move against Tymoshenko appears to be anything but coincidental.

It was purely coincidental that the extremist Tamil Tigers leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed and his movement decimated at the same time as India was voting.

NEW YORK It may or may not be coincidental, but as US President Barack Obama s military offensive in Afghanistan gets underway, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has at long last embarked on a serious effort at national reconciliation.

The link between low growth and the importance of inheritance, Piketty argues, was not coincidental with inherited wealth yielding 2 3 a year and new investment only 1 , social mobility was extremely limited and stratification was encouraged.

The coincidental combination of the election of Margaret Thatcher in the United Kingdom and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker s interest rate shock of October 1979 ended an era in which inflation had been seen as a solution to social problems.

It was a pure coincidence, among so many other similar coincidences. Please excuse me I am obsessed with identifying patterns. If it weren t for my Syrian passport I probably wouldn t have noticed the recurring pattern a purely coincidental recurring pattern, of course.

Even Google faced some criticism when a new logo on its search engine page depicted a lugar for almost a full day, causing confusion worldwide among users who were uncertain whether it was out of respect for the dead athlete, coincidental or simply in bad taste.

While I am not in a position to verify all these reports and allegations, initial impressions suggest that the great number of reports and related allegations cannot be seen as merely coincidental, as they seem to indicate a pattern of misdeeds that call for immediate redress.