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incident

adjective accessory, affiliated, allied, apperraining to, apropos, associated, bearing upon, belonging, circumstantial, collateral, connected, contextual, contingent, correlative, dependent on, following upon, implicated, in connection with, in relation to, inherent in, pertaining to, reeated to, relating to, relative to, subject to, subsidiary
Associated concepts: customarily incident, necessary and innident to

incident

noun affair, case, casus, contingency, episode, event, experience, happening, occasion, occurrence, pass, proceeding

INCIDENT. A thing depending upon, appertaining to, or following another, called the principal.
2. The power of punishing for contempt is incident to a court of record; rent is incident to a reversion; distress to rent; estovers of woods to a tenancy for a life or years. 1 Inst. 151; Noy's Max. n. 13; Vin. Ab. h.. t.; Dane's Ab. h.t.; Com. Dig. h.t., and the references there; Bro. Ab. h.t.; Roll's Ab. 75.

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According to a written reply to a question by MNA Saman Sultana Jafri of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal states that 56 sectarian incidents took place in Punjab, 40 in Balochistan, 23 in Sindh and three in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since June 2013.

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No unloading incident, he also said, was recorded last Saturday while there was only one incident last Friday afternoon.

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According to facts and figures came on record from January to 31 August 2016 about 212 persons were lost their lives as result of mutual disputes, old enmity and other crime incidents while 267 persons were injured in various incidents of murder attempt.

212 persons loses life in 2055 cases of various kinds

On average, it took companies 69 days to discover the incidents, although detection time ranged from 0 to 400 days.

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DIMP's goal for incident reports is to identify potential risks that primarily affect the public.

Study indicates risk to LDC assets posed by static electricity

Three-quarters of nurses providing private and public care experienced workplace violence, but only one in six incidents were formally reported, according to a study published in the February issue of the Journal of Clinical Nursing.

Nurses experience workplace violence but don't report it

A critical incident was defined as any incident that caused patient harm or had the potential to do so in the opinion of the reporter.

Critical incidents in a multidisciplinary intensive care unit

Before the library received a security guard and a video monitoring system in May 2005, the library had several incidents of inappropriate sexual behavior, including a report that a man propositioned a juvenile.

SEX INCIDENTS DOWN AT LIBRARY LANCASTER BRANCH BRINGS IN FULL-TIME SECURITY TO STOP BAD BEHAVIOR

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After firing the shots, what happens?

The first recorded incident of bioterrorism was in 1340 when soldiers catapulted dead horses at a castle in Northern France (Public Broadcasting System, 2003).

Bioterrorism preparedness: what school counselors need to know

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Getting a handle on incidents: learn why you need an incident-handling program and how to set one up

Of those, 2,037 law enforcement agencies reported the occurrence of 7,163 hate crime incidents.