concatenation of events
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John asks the tough question; “ How are we to make sense of this bizarre concatenation of events in which the financial system appears to have become an ethics-free zone?”
From Forbes • Jun. 17, 2014
Announced within hours of the divorce suit was Landis' resignation from his White House job�a seeming concatenation of events that presidential press aides said was purely coincidental.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first king reigned 100 years, then we have the names of some others, but without any detail of actions, or that concatenation of events which distinguishes authentic history.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
"Heaven grant it, sweet cousin!" said Adolphus Hesse in propria persona, emerging from behind the window-curtains, where, by some miraculous concatenation of events, he had found himself ensconced for the last hour.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various
Yet, while they were engaged in the search, by happy chance a wonderful concatenation of events in the pagan city of Athens determined the destiny of the nineteen-year-old ruler.
From Women of Early Christianity by Brittain, Alfred
