a quirk of nature

But a quirk of nature had caught her in some strange transformation.

"Where else on earth would it have been so easy to chalk the whole thing up to a quirk of nature?

He learned that brine shrimp were a quirk of nature, surviving for years in suspended animation.

And he told them about a quirk of nature called the San Andreas Fault.

Living to be 100 is no longer viewed as a quirk of nature, but as a distinct possibility, something to be worked for.

In other words, the ordering of the DNA code wasn't a quirk of nature.

You can't talk yourself out of it by telling yourself that it's a quirk of nature, that it's just something in the air.

Yet by a quirk of nature the ships of the Royal Navy, forced to blockade Brest, were fortunate.

Business Technology A quirk of nature discovered by Louis Pasteur may help create more potent drugs, chemicals, flavors and fragrances.

At the career of Languedoc, you can still discover a quirk of nature, namely a "pink stone" that must be the way the lava has cast itself.

In a quirk of nature, small songbirds and shorebirds are genetically programmed to navigate at night between nesting and wintering places, using celestial and magnetic cues.

A quirk of nature had made the island, a round boat kept afloat by airpockets of pumice and held in one place by a continuous whirlpool that spun it in the center of the sea.

If it had not been for a quirk of nature, Dr. Pino pointed out, archeologists would probably never have known that some hunting-and-gathering people occupied the banks of the Chinchihuapi at least 12,500 years ago.

A quirk of nature known to chemists since the mid-19th century has become the focus of one of the hottest areas of applied biochemistry, creating the prospect of purer and more potent drugs, agricultural chemicals, flavors and fragrances.

There is one problem, however - due to a quirk of nature, FTL travel is lethal to human females (the reasoning behind this is not explained, although it is mentioned that a Y-chromosome is necessary to survive an FTL jump).