How To Use Incident In A Sentence

  • Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
  • A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.
  • A little diner food helped, but after the incident with the couple on the street all I wanted was to go home, take a shower, slather lotion on my blistered tootsies, and lick my wounds.
  • He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’
  • Other cast members recalled the incident on Twitter. Times, Sunday Times
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  • Then they recruited him (not their first choice, incidentally) to do the donkey work.
  • THE timing of these arrests is interesting and may not be coincidental. The Sun
  • Incidentally, while this naturally brings up an analogy to the constitutional right to an abortion, the analogy is complex.
  • We may look like lobsters, or tuna fish, but that is purely coincidental. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not incidentally — one of the best 1930s fake-modern piano concerti ever tossed into a film. Proof through the night
  • I am neither strong nor anal about the ‘group system’ which, incidentally, and frankly, I think is quite a mess.
  • The precis accompanying the weekly summaries of incidents also make it possible to explore in more detail the deaths of individual policemen.
  • Slips, trips and falls are a very common cause of accidents with hundreds of thousands of incidents reported each year.
  • The incident was a prank that went wrong.
  • This is not just gossip, incidentally; he publishes this detail in the programme. Times, Sunday Times
  • The border incident led to war between the two countries.
  • Acari in the eye have been incidentally alluded to under inflammation of the lids. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Once Roma were level, that incident acquired ominous overtones retrospectively.
  • However, these incidents are not thought to be connected with yesterday's shooting.
  • In a seemingly unprovoked incident, the attackers hit both men and women in the 16-strong party, with a 72-year-old woman left unconscious.
  • Fry emerged from the incident without a scratch, but the concussion of the explosion was felt some 2,000 feet away, at the starting line.
  • Sir – My 14-year-old son witnessed an incident in Ipswich on Friday evening in which a friend was assaulted and injured. Oh Dear! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • (Coincidentally, it apparently freeze-dries into space ice cream very well.) Grist - the Latest from Grist
  • It is a shame that one high-profile incident has had such an impact. The Sun
  • The incident left a vivid impression on me.
  • The types of incidents the team deal with ranges from high to low level cases.
  • The incidents are alleged to have taken place after the mosque had been allowed to broadcast the call to prayer. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Sun understands the case could hinge on mobile phone footage of the incident filmed by the men and since seized by cops. The Sun
  • Known usually for somewhat opaque public statements, he ended his comment on the incident with a simple declarative: ‘Let the kids play.’
  • Talks between the neighbouring countries were called off following a border incident.
  • The incident pushed the two countries closer towards a serious diplomatic confrontation.
  • And how coincidental is it that he just happens to be working with Angus Scrimm, star of my all time favorite horror film ‘Phantasm.’ The Tail Section » 2007 » May
  • The Matriarch of the family gives him some money for books and incidental expenses.
  • The use of the bucket and telpher also eliminated most of the objectionable noise incident to the transfer of spoil from tunnel cars to ordinary wagons at the shaft sites. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
  • It's purely coincidental that most of the people I know are from the same background.
  • In one documented incident soldiers shot directly into a crowd of protesters. Times, Sunday Times
  • I will ask attorneys to help the students settle any legal disputes stemming from this incident.
  • They are not meat eaters, and any insects they swallow are accidental or incidental.
  • More than half of the incidents involved vicious dogs. The Sun
  • Don't let the incident get you down too much.
  • We manage 90 seconds of incidental chitchat before conversation dries up.
  • The incident led to neurological problems, numbness in his legs and arms. Times, Sunday Times
  • Incident energy: Total arc energy, both radiant and convective, that is actually received per unit area, in calories per square centimeter. CSE - Top Articles
  • Let us walk away with the lessons of this," Gray told the crowd of dozens of employees, after adding that such an incident can "intimidate" elected officials from participating in outreach such as Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's event Saturday. D.C. government observes moment of silence for Ariz. victims
  • Over the next 7 hours, fuels technicians filled and emptied seven fuel bowsers without further incident.
  • They captured the incident on film.
  • Repeater technique will eventually begin to release the phrase from various engrams and begin to show up incidents.
  • We learn that the cops are in cahoots with the drug dealer, but this is an incidental plot device that's entirely dropped once Philippa and Filippo are on the lam.
  • I believe that all our people and all of those who really love sports are bothered very much when there is some kind of indiscipline, when an incident takes place. INTERVIEW ON SPORTS
  • The National Transportation Safety Board launched an investigation of both incidents.
  • This incident has sharpened public awareness of the economic crisis.
  • But he says it is purely coincidental that he ended up as a farmer of coffee.
  • The incident should have been handled with more tact by the police.
  • He recalls one particularly hairy incident involving Angelina. The Sun
  • What makes similar incidents in these areas so maddening is that one hears the same story from both sides over and over again without ever finding out who was right and who was wrong.
  • The film is a swirling mass of themes, ideas and incident. Times, Sunday Times
  • The recent political incident will inevitably count against the peace process of the two countries.
  • William Coleman, Federalist editor of the New-York Evening Post, published an account of the incident in his paper two days later.
  • Some reports also cite incidents of physical abuse.
  • That was all of the incident, but he heard Ruth muffle a dry sob in her throat, and noticed that she turned her face away to gaze out of the window. Chapter 26
  • It's happening everywhere, coincidently, at a time when our ruling lords and masters have borrowed themselves broke. Times, Sunday Times
  • It gradually draws you in, though the grating incidental fiddle music does its best to spit you back out again. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fiji, were hailed by comrades for "excelling" in their roles after dying in separate incidents in Nad-e Ali on Tuesday. WalesOnline - Home
  • The patrol had covered 200 miles without incident.
  • She doesn't ask me anything, nor does she refer to The Incident With The Dolls.
  • The problem becomes more complicated when any untoward incident takes place in the Srinagar city or its vicinity.
  • The incident happened in the afternoon near the main bus stand in the communally sensitive North Gujarat town, which has witnessed several violent incidents in recent weeks.
  • The net effect is the diffraction of the incident radiation by the array of molecules.
  • I repeat that this pageful of disasters is merely the record of an average day, when nothing much is happening: and incidentally it occurs in a newspaper which, rather than most, tries to put a good face on things. As I Please
  • I can just imagine an ad on social sies like Facebook and Myspace… the same way Think of the eBaumsWorld.com incident…. Can Firebrand Make Commercials Hot?
  • The military wants to allow only a sanitized report/version of the incident to become public.
  • It was light and breezy with jaunty incidental music and you could totally see what the producers had in mind. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this version, for the first time, the mysterious unnamed "wingman" is being mentioned who supposedly was an eye witness to the incident Armstrong, Frank A. III
  • We incidentally found that STAT1C overexpression cause aberrant STAT activation in LL2 cells. Further studies on the underlying mechanisms may explore a novel regulatory system of JAK/STAT pathway.
  • Traffic incidents included 15 motor accidents, 30 cases of traffic obstruction and 16 illegally parked cars.
  • Loss of the daily cyclicity in the JH titer occurs co-incident with flight muscle histolysis in the LW morph.
  • She slept through the night without incident but was noted eight hours later to have pink urine and vomitus. Phenazopyridine
  • The trouble then spreads to town centre takeaways with incidents of criminal damage and violence.
  • In a bizarre but later understandable chain of events, an incident happened in seconds that ruined the lives of four men and ended that of a fifth.
  • With the benefit of watching the incident on TV, he was able to reach a different interpretation of my actions than he had done in real time.
  • Only six percent of police time is occupied with criminal incidents.
  • And incidentally, it's in India where the ancient symbol of the swastika originated.
  • Onions coincidentally contain a lot of potassium metaphosphate (KPO3), which, when combined with all the water soaked up from the Gatorade, is used to produce even more KH2PO4! Undefined
  • Returned home he relates the incident, and only through his mother's intercession escapes a thrashing from his honest father, for telling a lie.
  • That brief confrontation with Luke Calder had unsettled her far more than the incident in the garage, if she was honest.
  • With his departure there was an incident that almost altered the course of the war. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
  • If more information about an incident is available, it provides stronger accountability. The Sun
  • Incidentally, the references to the Australian system are to the way its (state-run) railways ended up with three separate track gauges.
  • The Changling is coincidentally what I called my youngest son during potty training. TRAILER FOR LATEST EASTWOOD JOINT
  • In her opinion the incidents described at the inquest were not necessarily related to the school, but had links with the local community.
  • The incident came close on the heels of a series of robbery detections made by four police stations of South Mumbai early last morning.
  • Or maybe she shouldn't, because then she would be underlining the incident. SORT OF RICH
  • According to the figures the total amount of violent crime rose 11 per cent to more than 812,000 incidents.
  • The skittering streaks and brushy splashes of color - punctuated by incidental drips and blobs - tend to remain discrete, but when they are allowed to run together, the effect is spectacular.
  • The incident remained etched on her memory for years.
  • I went to see it the other day, incidentally, it's still there, still exactly as it was in 1935.
  • The facts of the border incidents are only now beginning to rise to the surface.
  • Following the incident with the boy a Dig Daddy style man had gone to his door and beaten him up.
  • It plans to write to the Crown Office to seek an assurance that a similar incident would not occur.
  • Most recent incidents have been sparked by religious conversion and interfaith relationships. Times, Sunday Times
  • Officials admit that the figures are an underestimate, as they are based on incident reports from soldiers with incomplete information.
  • It took an incident of extreme force to reveal how far down the road she had gone. COMPULSION
  • In fiscal year 2009, there have been 52 "code green" incidents, which are defined as nonmedical emergencies, and usually mean someone is being violent or aggressive. RutlandHerald.com
  • She said he had armed himself with a bottle, but was on the edge of the incident in which he had been seriously stabbed.
  • Garnering international attention, that episode further fostered the group's violent reputation resulting from a well-documented incident involving the spearing deaths of five North American Summer Institute of Linguistics SIL missionaries in 1956. Suzan Crane: Finding my Soul and Losing my Heart in the Equadorian Amazon: A Spiritual Journey With the Remote Huaorani Tribe
  • More than one correspondent filed a story about the incident.
  • The incident had bruised his pride.
  • They suggest that use of this approach led to a reduction of aggressive incidents and that the approach has broader application to other forensic and mental health settings.
  • Pete Muckle, Stow fire station officer, said his crew was called to four incidents caused by the storm.
  • The numbers for intended suicides and incidents of self-harm are much higher.
  • Byng (who incidentally is the brother of Georgia Byng, author of the Molly Moon books for children) estimates the series will be completed in 2038! A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong: Book summary
  • The most cherishable of Jay's recordings are two-disc sets which permit inclusion of virtually every bit of the show's score, as well as snippets of dialogue, overtures, entr'actes, incidental music, and underscoring.
  • The hemispheres of the brain are now generally held to be the seat of those teleorganic processes which are coincident with noetic ideas and the active faculties of the mind.
  • Cricketers will be shown a red card for serious incidents under new laws expected to come into force next year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Goldman never denied repeatedly trying to contact Lee after the incident but said she wanted him to apologize.
  • Operation Trident, which tackles black-on-black crime in London, is investigating both the incidents.
  • He leant back in his chair, as if he was only incidentally present in the courtroom.
  • Mr McEvoy said he had taken down the car registration of the jet ski operators and was going to lodge a complaint with the Gardai about the incident.
  • Few details were released of the precise circumstances of the friendly fire incidents which caused the casualties.
  • The jaunty incidental music that has accompanied her progress from bedroom, through kitchen, to surgery ceases. Times, Sunday Times
  • The incident cast doubt on her motives and reliability.
  • Incidentally, I look forward to the time when people stop repeating the baseless clintonian arguments and the dems unite. Four Florida Members Of Congress Who Backed Hillary Come Out For Obama
  • All this went a long way to restore my self-respect, badly jolted by the morning incident. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
  • Short bursts of incidental daylight as you go about your business should be sufficient for most people. Times, Sunday Times
  • The incident occurred 16 years ago but the officers had been acquitted by lower courts. Times, Sunday Times
  • labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion
  • Yet he still shudders when he recalls the incident which knocked out THREE front teeth and fractured his jaw. The Sun
  • Another mysterious incident, which happened six months later, destroyed his mental balance completely.
  • The little man did not know, that time was wanted for imagination to make the roadway or riverway of a true story, unless we press to invent; his mind had been too busy on the way for him to clothe in speech his impressions of the passage of incidents at the call for them. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
  • But it certainly didn't feel like it at the time", referring to the unrequited loves, an ill-advised brief engagement and other romantic incidents that fill her diary when she was in her twenties. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • However, York ran into a bad period when lock Brad Macdonald was yellow carded and then, a few minutes later, long-serving lock Spanton was sent off in a hotly disputed incident as the referee penalised him for stamping.
  • And we have no idea how many incidents have gone unreported or have been covered up.
  • Don't keep on at the children about this incident.
  • This potential increase of reporting rape incidents became the main rationale for seeking anonymity for the victim.
  • Veterans Affairs that, as a paratrooper and artilleryman, he exchanged fire with enemy combatants and was engaged in an incident of friendly fire. William Devereaux
  • A falsely high reading on a radiation dosimeter may have very different implications during a bioterrorist incident than during a rat lab experiment.
  • So, all incidents of females exposing themselves in public, where pictures are taken which result in disciplinary action or loss of job, shall now be called examples of the Bosley-Cherry Disconnect.
  • Witness statements presented a confused picture of the incident.
  • The border incident led to war between the two countries.
  • From now on all violent incidents should be reported directly to the head.
  • The incident caused congestion on surrounding roads as police cleared the area.
  • Lipton survived the affair and told shareholders the incident had happened years before and the practice had been given up.
  • Captain Brownson had noticed the incident and he sent word to delay opening the breechblock until all danger of explosion had passed. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee"
  • The incident happened on September 1, when a driver careered off a road adjoining the lake, crashing through a drystone wall and ploughing into the water.
  • The alleged victim, Johnny Jean, and his mother, Rose Marie Jean, told Haitian radio stations he had been raped by Uruguayan marines and provided testimony to a judge in the southern town of Port-Salut, where the incident allegedly took place on July 28. Uruguay apologizes over alleged rape by U.N. peacekeepers
  • Police blame the incident on what they call careless zookeepers. CNN Transcript Apr 21, 2005
  • They all laughed as he recounted the amusing incident.
  • No one likes to feel hustled along in bed, as if they're incidental to proceedings. Times, Sunday Times
  • He explained the incident to the press by focusing on the problems created by deinstitutionalizing the mentally ill.
  • They spoke of incidents of violence, which included a disabled woman twice narrowly escaping injury from a youth firing an air rifle and a pensioner's pet dog being shot dead.
  • Almost incidentally, on August 2, 1883, a decree went up in every town square in Russia: Yiddish theater henceforward would be illegal throughout the land.
  • He told police after the incident that he had no recollection of what had happened but described his driving as ‘nice and easy’ shortly before the crash.
  • While Redknapp's spouse is, indeed, called Louise, the video clip of this incident makes it clear Keys was referring to a different woman with the same forename Andy Gray didn't develop his ideas about women in a vacuum, 27 January, page 10, G2. Corrections and clarifications
  • The looming enforced removal of Mr Ozberk, 30, has the makings of a diplomatic incident.
  • Alameda County prosecutors are now looking into alleged incidents dating back to 1995, a year after he joined the church.
  • The result was a one-third reduction in the number of robberies and a general diminution of other anti-social incidents.
  • Coincidentally, I had once found myself in a similar situation.
  • In a recent incident, a particularly virulent South American strain of the bacteria vibrio parahaemoliticus, a relative of cholera, was tied to more than 400 cases of serious human illness across 13 states.
  • The incident, in which a chalet-style caravan was attacked at Rectory Lane last Tuesday night, has led senior officers to reassure residents they have been working to quell the disorder.
  • Are its movements identical with those of the body, or only preconcerted and coincident with them, or is one simply an aspect of the other? Theaetetus
  • The skilled reader is not dependent on the adventitious aids of easiness or brightness; he is no longer, for instance, dependent upon plot for his enjoyment of fiction, or upon what is called 'actuality' or 'incident', or mere verisimilitude of description. 2010 January 08 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
  • There was an incident in which he overdrank that led to his death.
  • Under proposed amendments to the Civil Contingencies Bill, the police will be able to evacuate danger areas should a ‘catastrophic incident’ occur.
  • If Mr. Burroughs cannot answer to his own satisfaction, he may call Dr. Romanes a nature-faker and dismiss the incident from his mind. The Other Animals
  • An incident room was set up at a police station near the site of the crash.
  • The Parish Council have asked me to express their grave concern that such an incident could have occurred at all.
  • the police investigated an incident at the bus station
  • Incidentally the odds on the hunted fox being killed are about evens.
  • This incident will be held up as proof that tougher controls are needed.
  • There were nine more incidents involving between one and four birds over the next three months. Times, Sunday Times
  • Police were called to a house at Eddleston, near Peebles, early yesterday after an incident allegedly involving a knife.
  • Every incident requiring action from a supervisor must be documented in writing on the correct form.
  • As quick as thought the tent was struck, the pegs wrenched from the ground, and the ghazi surrounded, overpowered, secured, and incidentally in due course hanged. The Story of the Guides
  • The audiences before whom _The Revenge_ was produced evidently showed themselves ill-affected towards such a medley of purely fictitious creations, and of historical personages and incidents, treated in the most arbitrary fashion. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
  • The repair person receives the ticket and resolves the issue and closes the incident when the problem is resolved.
  • Incidentally, there was no difference in insulin resistance or diabetes between the two groups. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Melanocortin Linked to Blood Pressure Control
  • The incidents refer to alleged verbal abuse. The Sun
  • His diary documents one such incident in some detail. THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ROBERT HOOKE: The Man who Measured London
  • He was asked to leave the club following an incident at a training camp.
  • Because of the potential seriousness of the incident, a site alert was announced.
  • All incidents are alleged to have taken place at La Perle cafe in the Marais district of Paris.
  • For it is the peculiarity of linear extension that it alone allows its magnitudes to be placed in _absolute_ juxtaposition, or, rather, in coincident position; it alone can test the equality of two magnitudes by observing whether they will coalesce, as two equal mathematical lines do, when placed between the same points; it alone can test _equality_ by trying whether it will become _identity_. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
  • In another incident the poor air circulation prevented the smoke alarm from going off when a small fire ignited.
  • That incident was the state's first hunting-related fatality involving a nonhunter in at least a quarter-century. The News Tribune Blogs
  • There were 21 injuries as a result of accidental fires a slight increase from last year but half of those reported were from just two incidents.
  • It is my total albeit, naive-sounding, to nihilists masquerading as realists belief that there is remedy to this incident; the Iranian government can make this happen without appearing to have equivocated, and frankly, without appearing as anomalous in their imprisonment of artists, because again, history is far too rife with such instances, the world over. Michael Vazquez: On The Imprisonment of Iranian Filmmakers: A Moral Option For Iran and Any Government Presuming to Silence Its Artists
  • The assaulted 20 year old woman was standing nearby in tears, still shook up and embarrassed after the incident.
  • Every day it seems we hear about some kind of incident with an athlete that runs afoul of the law.
  • Corporal Jones was on an operational tour in East Timor and was travelling in the rear of an armoured vehicle at the time of the incident.
  • It was a pretty unsavoury incident. The Sun
  • A second woman was also recovering in hospital yesterday after a separate incident.
  • There is ample fact -- and we also have plenty of evidence -- proving that this incident was organized, premeditated, masterminded and incited by the Dalai clique," Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said today, in denouncing the Dalai Lama's supporters as instigators of what he described as violent protests that rocked the region in recent days. What They Are Saying
  • This incident is particularly distressing to the members of the University administration because all fraternities and sororities participated in a workshop a year ago to address a similar situation at another institution.
  • The fact that the concert made a profit was considered incidental.
  • His dog was rescued by a lifeboat during the incident on Tuesday afternoon. The Sun
  • Our members are statistically amongst the safest people with whom to share a racetrack, with consistently fewer incidents and therefore more track time.
  • In the afternoon, I encountered another hair-raising incident.
  • Thanks to coincidental timing, this supermoon will be coming on the heels of the June solstice, which takes place only two days before.
  • A third skydiver had 'a hard landing and suffered a back injury' in a separate incident. Times, Sunday Times
  • Incidentally, white jasmine is a tautology in the Indian context.

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