unintentional act

Then he looked around quickly to see if the unintentional act of vandalism had been noticed.

In earlier times, his dictionary says, it referred to an "unintentional act, chance, fortune."

But even unintentional acts so-seeming are not truly so.

Like a sigh, a yawn, or a moan, a gasp is often an automatic and unintentional act.

"This was completely an unintentional act and a tragic mistake," Lieutenant Fitzpatrick said yesterday.

All three require that the act be a direct and intentional act, with indirect or unintentional acts falling under the tort of negligence.

Nu is passed directly from person to person not only through intentional acts but also through unintentional acts.

The town eventually became known as Bradleyville, then in 1825 the name of the town would be changed through the unintentional act of a celebrating sailor.

Until we know a whole lot more than we know now, we can't afford to commit an act of violence, even an unintentional act of violence.

Basquash is actually not the combination of the terms basketball and squash, but rather a pun in Japanese from the terms "baka" meaning "idiotic" and "sukasu" meaning "unintentional acts".

Small gaggles break away to join the peroxide mohicaned wigeons paddling in bomb crater pools, formed during the second world war due to an unintentional act of habitat creation by the Luftwaffe.

Additionally, Alexander's has uncovered taped conversations between Ruby's defense team, including attorney Melvin Belli, that call into question Ruby's contention that Oswald's murder was an unintentional act.

Perhaps what might be called the counterideology comes about two-thirds of the way through his book, after Alyosha has recounted a hilarious incident involving an unintentional act of hooliganism by Arkady and Alyosha.

But in a statement issued today, Steve Ross, Crown's publisher, said that, "based on the scope and character of the similarities, it is inconceivable that this was a display of youthful innocence or an unconscious or unintentional act."