Translation of "plaider l accident inévitable " (French → English) :

Interviews with former employees, incident reports filed with Transport Canada and the Transportation Safety Board, and internal government documents paint a picture of an airline so badly run that some considered a major accident inevitable.

Unfortunately, Kosovo's independence, which is now inevitable, is not a choice motivated by the pursuit of democracy and equal rights, but the result of an industrial accident.

To say that you didn't know and it was an accident and so on is no defence on a strict liability offence, but it certainly is on a serious offence with serious consequences like the fines we're talking about in here.

The petitioners say that whereas hit and run legislation in its current state does not provide an adequate sentence to offenders who leave the scene of an accident; and whereas an accused, who has control over the vehicle, who fails to stop at the scene of an accident should receive a minimum sentence of seven years for an accident causing death and a minimum of four years for an accident resulting in bodily harm; and whereas prosecutors should not be able to offer those accused of fleeing the scene of an accident the opportunity to plead guilty to an offence with a lesser punishment, they ask that the government vote in favour of Bill ...[+++] C-453, an act to amend the Criminal Code, failure to stop at the scene of an accident.

A new approach to transport infrastructure charging based on the "user pays" (maintenance and operating costs) and the "polluter pays" (internalisation of external costs such as traffic congestion, pollution and accidents) principles was regarded as inevitable by the vast majority of participants.

I reject the sceptical position and fatalistic view of those who think that fishing accidents are inevitable and that the victims of them are a price we have to pay to the sea.