It is no coincidence that George W. Bush s and Putin s disastrous presidencies were cotemporaneous.

This did not happen by accident or by chance.

The role achieved its apotheosis with someone who, perhaps not coincidentally, was trained as an actress.

The operation's success was no accident.

Perhaps the fiscal observation is a coincidence.

This impression is no accident.

It is not a coincidence that Benjamin Franklin had a background in printing and newspaper publishing.

And so I happened to have a snake pin.

And the existence of a viable alternative has had a disciplining effect on politicians not by chance, Silvio Berlusconi s government served its entire electoral term.

It is no accident that France and the Netherlands have taken the lead in this sordid venture.

It is no coincidence that bank stocks were hit hardest in the recent financial crash.

The fact that many family members, including Park Chung Hee s daughter, Geon hye, support the conservative opposition party is surely no coincidence.

The alarm sounded by the total absence of such recommendations is no accident.

And, incidentally, the current agitation about interest rates is a bit over the top.

It is no coincidence that much of Kenya s ongoing violence is occurring in the slums of its large cities.

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

That is no accident.

In sovereign states and territories, this is highly unlikely to come about on its own. It is no accident that the democratic process has emerged most smoothly where there was some external power to back up the constitution.

So the launch of a debate on national identity by President Nicolas Sarkozy is anything but accidental.

Coincidentally, one of my best friends growing up is a cop in Chicago, and one of my other best friends out in LA is a sheriff.

Not coincidentally, that s a perfect prescription for bloated, debt ridden central and subnational governments worldwide.

But it is no coincidence that Obasanjo removed Okonjo Iweala from a job for which she has proven competence and, more importantly, in which she ruled the roost she had led the opposition from within the government to the constitutional amendment.

MT And is it a coincidence that there are 52 cards in a deck of cards, just as there are 52 weeks in a year?

That's like me telling you, Hey, you know the Nobel Prize was established in 1901, which coincidentally is the same year Alberto Giacometti was born?

It was no accident that communist countries were (and are) usually run by geriatric leaders, and democracies by younger men and women.

It is perhaps no accident that rent seeking and inequality have increased as top tax rates have fallen, regulations have been eviscerated, and enforcement of existing rules has been weakened the opportunity and returns from rent seeking have increased.

Not coincidentally, the ten year gap between summits overlaps with Russia s re emergence as a global player, following the trauma of the Soviet Union s collapse.

The question is not fanciful.

This, of course, is not to oversimplify matters.

In the view of the soldier, the shooting was no accident, because the range was too close and the visibility too good, but the fire did not come from the Israeli position, he said.

You have no prayer of treating those diseases effectively and in a non serendipitous way if you do not know how this works.

It is not a coincidence that an FMCT was considered as one of the most important steps of the 2000 NPT Review Conference to implement article VI of the Treaty.

Nor is it by chance that Section 211 extends, into the realm of intellectual property, the provisions of the Helms Burton Act, which as is well known was also promoted by Bacardi, among others.

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.

Not coincidentally, mainstream leaders, from German Chancellor Angela Merkel to British Prime Minister David Cameron, have caught up with the current mood by deeming European multiculturalism a failure.

Either by accident or design, the media choose only those battles that offer the finest spectacles clashes of personalities, violence and repression, struggles over national identity, and disputes about moral and sexual attitudes.

It is no coincidence that wherever stock markets thrive, governments take care that these taxes stop well short of destroying after tax corporate profits.

None of this has come about by chance.

By an unfortunate coincidence, the Macmillan Committee produced its report on July 13, 1931, the day that Germany s most dynamic universal bank, the Darmstädter Bank, failed.

It was therefore a bizarre coincidence that the merger s collapse came on the day that the Commission unveiled its new industrial strategy for regaining Europe s competitive edge in the face of Asian and North American competition.

Doubts about their stability are at the center of the storm. It is no coincidence that bank stocks were hit hardest in the recent financial crash.

Its sweet taste was discovered by accident.

It is no accident that there are Islamists in the legislatures of all the countries undergoing some form of political reform, including Lebanon, where Hezbollah is part of a freely elected government, as well as Jordan and Morocco.

Such measures should, for instance, address not only employment but also such areas as participation and representation.

Fadil's renewed interest in Layla was no accident.