Sentences with phrase «against bad luck»

Ballast in the 20 % range that is maintained for the first 5 to 10 years of the spending phase provides a reasonable safety margin against bad luck, while not dragging down your overall portfolio performance too much

It is supposedly protection against bad luck.

Not exact matches

«They had the bad luck of coming up against us,» he said.

Throughout history, special powers have been attributed to eggs, including the ability to predict the future, bring good luck and guard against the bad, to cure ills both social and medical, and to guard against infertility and insure plentiful harvests.

However, I do get the feeling that after all the bad luck that the Gunners have had this season with refs, injuries, hitting the woodwork, dodgy goals against us and all that, the tide might just be turning and things might just be starting to go our way.

However, looking at what Sutton is inviting the other team to do and extrapolating from that what his real fear is and what the real weakness of this defense is combined with the performance against Oakland shows that this is most likely not bad luck on 50/50 balls, but a true weakness that was desperately trying to be hidden by scheming.

Arsenal have to secure the attack and get Alexis ready for the match against Barca and the remaining fixtures against top premier league sides.The team has to win against Barca and then beat them at Nou - Camp causes it really is irritating to see Wenger playing bad players in the big matches in the past, Arsenal have allowed themselves to be weak where Wenger is after the league means these Southhampton, Stoke, Chelsea get the luck against this side.

Day, the Hornets» star rookie faced some more bad injury luck against the Kings.

I'm not saying your stupid, I'm just saying you have bad luck when it comes to thinking and I don't think you are an idiot, but then what's my opinion against thousands of others?

One could say about the final against Zaragoza but that was really, really bad luck.

Yours is probably picking apart every bad play until you luck upon that Holy Grail of basketball games where the Sixers shoot 80/60/99 and win 169 - 69 against the reigning NBA champs.

That is not the only bad luck we have had by any means, with offside decisions, penalties for and against and more.

Things go against all teams at some point but real genuine challengers for the title can overcome this sort of bad luck.

Own goals — how do you mitigate against that — surely it's clearly just bad luck.

Just bad luck against Spurs.

Not only is this a real boost for the Gunners in a difficult week, with a home tie in the Champions League against Galatasaray followed by a crucial Premier League away day at Chelsea, but it could be seen as the end of Wilshere's terrible run of bad luck with injuries.

Why not when their nxt fixtures except only the manure and chelshit ones are winnable???... even the last game they had against westbrom should have been a win for them had it not been because of bad luck and i MEAN IT!

While I would love for Arsenal to get some good luck in the FA cup this weekend and the Premier League match against Southampton a few days later, I would happily settle for the absence of any bad luck for the Gunners.

Was not analyzing the Manchester ss and don't really care much there but from a footballing point of view and from the words of MR wenger I understand the logic I do nt read what the media thinks neither My comment above addresses the issues we face in comparison to the two previous seasons adding in our re enforcements The 22 million question «Are the Arsenal capable of achieving 85 point come next May???» I believed we were strong last year and said it here that the team was strong and together and used the very words that MR wenger used cohesion but as the season unfolded the cracks showed up at the very beginning when we lost to west ham and it got worse as we lost pole position and every thing around us came tumbling down by February last season here comes another important question did they know and understand what happened do they know what to do this term to avoid the very same faith well we wait and see Irregardless of what happens I will support Arsenal and will keep analyzing every match my way until May so Good luck Arsenal with your endeavors and hope you do well against Liverpool keep the fight on keep the heads up and give them a good beating

The Mountaineers have worse quarterback luck for this game, as their starter Will Grier broke his finger in a mid-November affair against Texas.

All of the Arsenal players did pretty well in a game that we dominated against a very determined and disciplined Swansea City, but with some bad luck, poor finishing and one defensive lapse, we lost.

I watched his start against the Sox and watched him hang tough against the Mets, despite some bad luck.

Yes Arsenal should have responded better to our bad luck at Watford, but it was bad luck and Chelsea had some good luck today to avoid the same result Arsenal got against an impressive team.

Facing a 2 - 6 Oregon State squad with one of the worst rushing attacks in the nation, the public is pounding Andrew Luck and Co. to win by at least three TDs against the lowly Beavers.

Truth be told, I'd say it was pure bad luck against Olympiakos, but the squad could have been improved, we could have bought better players.

TENNIS — ROD LAVER, after a bad run of luck against young U.S. players, beat fellow Australian Roy Emerson, world's No. 1 - ranked player, 9 - 7, 6 - 2, 6 - 0 in the finals of the Altamira Tournament, Caracas, Venezuela.

If no more bad luck comes our way then Arsene Wenger will soon have a full squad of players to choose from, excepting Santi Cazorla, and the confidence and form is growing and should continue to do so with two very winnable games against Crystal Palace and Middlesborough coming up.

We are going to win tomorrow as we alwaus do unless we have MASSIVE bad luck, like we did against West Brom, or a crap referee that we had against Chelsea.

To be fair, she does owe Arsenal a few favours after another season of awful injury blows and poor decisions from the officials and they do say that luck is supposed to even itself out over the course of a campaign, so maybe those penalties we should have had but were denied against West Ham and the latest minor knocks that have ruled out Koscielny and Ospina will be the last bits of bad luck the Gunners get, for a while at least.

The Gunners used up all their bad luck in last weeks game against West Brom, but now with injuries easing and the extra confidence gained from being on the brink of reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League, I can see a landslide win for Arsenal.

Your team lost a game due to bad luck against an ultra defensive team.

«Of course, in the beginning, you say maybe it's just bad luck or whatever, but I'm actually competing against Fernando in terms of retirements.

Its not a case of the odd bad game or occasional one where luck is against us.

A bit of bad luck or a bad call can just sway things against you.

Considering the amount of bad luck (and by bad luck, I actually mean horrible decisions) against United this season, Mourinho can hardly be blamed for expressing himself.

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Even if you are bad luck than your married occur with men and you not speak against rule and without enjoy real sex life either you died or suicide.

Metcalf has the bad luck of competing against an actress with the same narrative (hardworking, veteran actress) only stronger because Janney is much more connected to the film world.

The adults are portrayed by Jeff Daniels (Good Night, and Good Luck) and Laura Linney (P.S.) and their characters are wonderfully flawed — pitting their children against each other and making bad decision after bad decision.

And even if they do earn a lot and are able to save, poor investment returns, bad luck, poor judgement, ultra-low interest rates and job loss could all conspire against them.

Stock Amounts — Even assuming perfectly bad - luck timing and less aggressive dividend reinvestment, holding stocks for 10 years guards against all but the very worst historical stock catastrophes.

They all present a poetic re-working of Greek popular tradition, which develops around three themes: KARAGIOZIS, POSTCARDS of old Athens, the EVIL EYE, a bead charm used to guard against ill omen and bad luck.

I was going against the second tier cannon boss and was having the worst luck preventing the cannon from firing.

So often policies designed to promote a certain behaviour become discrimination against those who choose to do otherwise, which really becomes yucky when kids, as always, pay for their parents» bad luck or unwise decisions.