Sentences with phrase «bad luck to»

They're also the ones who considered it bad luck to spill the salt There are people in France who harvest it by hand - only on clear days in the summer, no less.

It's just your bad luck to have an unreasonable lender.

Just as tipsters and rumormongers always assumed, the number routinely associated with death in Chinese culture will likely be skipped entirely so as not to bring bad luck to the ambitious local smartphone manufacturer.

And if you've had the bad luck to die during this period and the above happens, then your beneficiary could end up not receiving any benefit payment at all.

Living in this part of the country it is also pertinent to mention that in nautical circles it is considered bad luck to begin a voyage on Friday.

Most people who are injured are law - abiding, but have the bad luck to be sharing the street or highway with another driver that fails to exercise reasonable care for the safety of others.

I would consider that if you wear a t - shirt like this as a joke, and you have the bad luck to run into a situation where resuscitation is needed, and the person in question gets the legal question wrong and doesn't resuscitate, then the legal question is quite irrelevant, because you are not able to sue them.

Here are seven animals that have the bad luck to be tasty:

Moreover, in relation to «Climate Research,» the threat is not merely to avoid publishing in the journal but indeed to avoid citing articles from the journal, ie, effectively punishing authors of what might be presumably «good» work who had the bad luck to have picked the «wrong» journal for their work.

It's clearly bad luck to get this kind of persistent ridging.»

Secondly, even being less generous to Jones, — and it is undoubtedly bad luck to draw the chief of the institute whose work you are criticising as one of your reviewers or stupidity for submitting it to a journal where they are on the review board, take your pick — Science, and the peer review process, is bigger than one biased reviewer (or even a nest of biased reviewers).

What's more, many had the bad luck to be women or minorities at a time when the market shunned almost everyone who wasn't white and male.

So bad luck to those that have went with the cheaper standard edition.

A handmaid, Mary, arrives to help Nóra just as rumors begin to spread that Micheál is a changeling child who is bringing bad luck to the valley.

Grandmaw Ruth always said it's bad luck to dream of muddy waters.

As a result, if you have the bad luck to get a particularly robust stone, nail or other debris in under the pad, it will machine away the rotor as it spins.

Just the schools I had the bad luck to be at?

It is considered bad luck to own money from the previous year, so people try to pay any bills before the New Year.

Gyllenhaal had the bad luck to portray a Rachel who was nothing more than an object of desire and a plot device.

During an early scene of Ronsel departing for the front - lines, Florence Jackson (Mary J. Blige, «Rock of Ages») superstitiously narrates: «It's bad luck to watch someone leave.

The only other significant character to complicate the mix is a sour old busybody (Camryn Manheim) who passes the stolen car on the road and has the bad luck to intervene just as the fun turns violent — as the carefree lark evolves into a more high - stakes action movie.

If ever there were a case to prove it's bad luck to share the secret you wish for while blowing out your birthday candles, this would be it.

And it's just Eddy Murphy's bad luck to be making the comeback of the decade in the same film.

Lee Marvin makes an impression when he stomps the hand of little kid who had the bad luck to jostle him on the street and J. Carrol Naish is the cautious veteran who tries to keep the garrulous Marvin in line.

Has the bad luck to come on the heels of Kathryn Bigelow's beautifully made and politically impassioned «K - 19,» making this submarine picture — a relatively modest, low - budget affair — seem skimpy by comparison.

Then, is it really bad luck to open an umbrella in the house?

He attributed his bad luck to his unusual Arabic - sounding name.

If you have the bad luck to meet a loony at a dating site, as long as you've kept your identity a secret, there's no way that they can bother you in real life.

Funny thing — my boyfriend has this weird Italian superstition about it being bad luck to put shoes on counters or tables, etc. so whenever I see it I cringe but then laugh, because I do it myself all the time and it drives him crazy — love those white heels, too, btw!

«Who says it's bad luck to spill the style?»

In the Amazon Basin, local legends claim that it's bad luck to kill a river dolphin.

In the Amazon Basin in central Brazil, local legends claim that it is bad luck to kill a river dolphin — just looking one in the eye may cause a lifetime of bad dreams.

When Galileo shot a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere in 1995, it apparently had the bad luck to pass through one of the planet's relatively dry, cloud - free regions.

What Mac - Manu did can bring bad luck to the NPP and I want to draw the entire NPP and Mac - Manu's attention to it.

Switzerland Many people believe it's bad luck to tell anyone the name you choose for your child before the birth.

Her firstborn survived all the childhood diseases, but had the bad luck to have been born male in Europe in the early 1890s and died in the trenches.

Saints have enough talent to survive, but it doesn't take a lot of bad luck to sink you when you're this close to the edge.

Arsenal Football Club have had much more than their fair share of injuries in recent years, with last season pushing the bounds of bad luck to something like a curse.

Losers come up with excuses, I have heard too much about referees, offside goals, physical opposition, poor pitches and bad luck to not believe Wenger is at least partially to blame for turning his team into losers.

So is bad luck to blame for Arsenal not winning the Premier League this season?

Second, it takes a lot of bad luck to lose three one - run games in one best - of - five series, and one of those games was an 18 - inning marathon that should count twice toward that total.

So that makes up in some way for Arsenal having the bad luck to get a Premier League team while the likes of Liverpool, Man United and Chelsea get Exeter, Sheffield United and Scunthorpe.

Was it bad luck that jack missed from 5 yards no it was quality Was it bad luck Danny missed 2/3 chances no again it's quality Was it bad luck to concede the second no lack of quality We got lucky jack should have been sent off We have a serious problem at Arsenal, I said weeks ago we will struggle to finish top 4, now I am sure we won't so what's the so.ution Please don't thumb me down explain why you think I'm wrong

Arsenal have the bad luck to have to face the Champions - elect Man City just four days after being embarrassed in the League Cup final by Pep Guardiola's side, but Arsene Wenger is very hopeful that his team can pick themselves up to try and get revenge at the Emirates, where the Gunners have only lost one League game all season.

i hope son of a bi * ch wilshere f**k s off and Ramsey plays.Wilshere's return cost us the swansea match.He is bad luck to us.he plays and we lose 90 % of time.pls play ramsey.

I hope son of a bi * ch wilshere f**k s off and Ramsey plays.Wilshere's return cost us the swansea match.He is bad luck to us.he plays and we lose 90 % of time.

If, on the other hand, he manages to evade such supervised experience, or has the bad luck to land a situation with poor supervision, then he goes on arraigning the local church.

That is a contradiction, because they are the only group of imigrants in the world that want to change the values, traditions, way of life of any country that have the bad luck to be thier host, I recommend and pass the word to read: The Islamisation of America, and Londondistan, where the plans of taking over are in march.

We had no idea who these boys were, we just had the bad luck to be in the same row and we didn't do anything.

So, your all loving, all powerful, forgiving and understanding god is sitting by watching the likes of Ghandi, Anne Frank, Einstein, and untold billions of little children who had the unforunate bad luck to be born in a non-Christian family and be taken before their time get tormented for all eternity?