This is a historical accident owing to the nature of the original research proposal.

This was not some kind of evil conspiracy but just an historical accident.

This historical accident would come back to haunt the station later.

That's not the financial kind, but a happy historical accident.

The transformation of government from road builder to check writer was not a historical accident.

Far too important to be left to the position dictated by historical accident or cultural prejudice.

There is no good reason for any of this, aside from historical accident.

They have happened as a product of historical accident, geography, and theology.

In this sense, the doctrine is a historical accident.

After all, America's pre-eminent city owes its position to historical accident.