6 sentences with “inadvertently”

The war had also inadvertently undermined the hoplitism-based social and political order of previous centuries.

When my husband and I arrived at the car dealership to pick up our new car, we were told that the keys had been inadvertently locked inside the vehicle.

In other words, scientific advances inadvertently led to the growth of scepticism about religion, sometimes to outright atheism - the rejection of the very idea of God's existence.

However, social and economic devastation came in the 1340s, when Genoese merchants returning from the Black Sea inadvertently brought back a highly contagious rat-borne disease known as the bubonic plague.

Finally, a powerful pope, Eugene IV, reconfirmed the absolute power of the papacy in 1431. Thus, this attempt at reform ultimately failed, inadvertently paving the way for more radical criticisms of papal power in the future.

To cite only the most prominent examples, the 2002 US invasion of Iraq inadvertently led to a massive increase in recruitment for anti-Western terrorist organisations (many of which were drawn from disaffected EU citizens of Middle Eastern and North African descent).