Sentences with phrase «as a fluke of»

An alternative possibility, however, can explain the observations as a fluke of cosmological geometry.

Would you consider this as a fluke of bad statistics?

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A Jefferies analyst said this bookings miss was a «fluke» and not a sign of fundamental problems, and that any pullback in the stock should be seen as a buying opportunity.

How the idea got started that only 18 holes qualifies as a full round of golf is a bit of a fluke anyway.

Since cryptocurrency is not zodiacally ostensible as payment, this requires anticipating a trade counterparty, in essence, anticipating a fluke of wants.

Covering contraception in cases like that which Fluke testified about, ie the ovarian cyst case where contraception was truly a medically necessary thing, would not bring down the economy and might even result in net savings, assuming that the cost of removing the ovary WAS covered, as one would hope it was.

If by some fluke I do find myself heaven - bound on May 21 in a puff of smoke while my ailing mother and father are left down here with no one to care for them as the Horsemen ride over the hill shootin'their 6 - guns, I'm gonna demand a return flight so I can stand guard in front of their house with my NFR - approved lariat, ready for some ropin».

Not to make light of Ms. Fluke's unfortunate situation, but, this should also serve as a wake up call that there are some people out there that actually think Rush is a legitimate commentator.

Both Fluke and DeGioia, however, focused on this battle as a moment in the rapid degradation of our common life.

DeGioia has weighed in on recent campus political controversies, defending the decision to invite Sebelius - saying «we are a university, committed to the free exchange of ideas» - and defending Fluke against attacks from Limbaugh, which the college president described as «as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.»

Not even most of his sponsors pulling their funding could convince the Fat@ss to apologize, as we saw during the Sandra Fluke incident.

i think not, i think we are a cosmic fluke, one like that of the wheel of numbers — i'm sure there is life on other planets but we are as flukish as them.

On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh blasted Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified before Congress in favor of contraceptive coverage in health plans, as a «slut» and a «prostitute.»

Iwobi recked my head last night he was weak and misplaced many passes he cant seem to control the ball its always running away from him he should not be in the middle in the middle you need good ball controllers with good eyes for passes long and short on the ground and above the ground >> > waterford yesterday were on top of us with no space giving to our players and we were scattered all over the place with no vision or leader ship too goals in the space of 3 minuets ok the first goal was a fluke but come on the second one???? and thats all what it takes to loose a match many times this season we cant play when the opposition seats in our face we have no cohesion or understanding we crumble away we need to start the game together as a unit a compact unit

we had it with Campbell Toure.we are doing well with BFG and Koscielny at the moment.Gabriel can only usurp any if he only proves himself.we shouldn't forget that Mertesacker was a long time starter for one of the best national sides in the world.i don't see that as a weakness or a mere fluke.

leading the league for the majority of last season with him not only as our main option, but our only option must have been fluke then...

As an embittered and resilient Liverpool team host Man United this week, it will be interesting to see if Rashford's stellar performance was a fluke or a sign that he's on the verge of greatness.

My issue with your theme is you are comparing 30 plus plate appearances this year to almost 400 last year, dismissing above average numbers as a fluke and stating that the first ten days of this season is the real deal.

We had a lot of movement in the 1st half upfront and that is what got us our goal, not a bit of fluke as Jose said but a bit of play that we played for, that fast movement upfront allowed Theo to beautifully pick out the Ox and when it came to defend that lead, we changed our tactics... which has been a complaint of some Arsenal fans, Wenger not playing the right tactic or the opposition.

(The previous week in Detroit, Garlits had become the first man ever to exceed 200 mph at the end of a quarter - mile drag strip, but that single performance might have been criticized as a fluke and possibly another among many questionable claims to 200 - mph runs.)

Thus, the 2016 championship could have been perceived as a fluke, or luck, or the confluence of special players that got hot for their «one shining moment.»

«With Klopp — his passion, his ideas, his brand of football, it's no coincidence or fluke that he has a great record against Pep Guardiola teams as well.

A player who fluked a goal against Liverpool in the 2006 FA Cup final before later joining the Reds as one of their worst - ever signings, Paul Konchesky surely isn't one likely to be welcomed back to Anfield.

we are gonna go all out to buy in players who have had One good season??? wouldnt that be something to keep the AKB's in thier happy place, arguing that they are top notch cos they won the PL (by a fluke) unyet will be, (and this is the most important aspect to the board) cheaper than the players we SHOULD be going after which we all know they wont as its all about making and not spending money!!!! personally Ill be really disapointed if we start buying players in from Leicester on the back of one seasons performance but hey it seems to the arsenal way.

Despite being written off as fluke, Poland finally bowed out with defeat against West Germany in the final game of the second round group phase, the first time they had dropped points in the entire tournament.

Our August triumph over Roma at the Stadio Olimpico was written off by the majority as a fluke because of all the «episodes» that went our way in that match, while the series of encounters we've had against inferior opposition since then have all followed a not - too - dissimilar narrative.

Some of the recent comments from Ivan Gazidis are very concerning with reference to Arsenal now looking to the fluke of Leicester City's title win as justification for how things are going at the club.

After an improvement of his PB this year of nearly five metres, Egyptian javelin thrower Ihab Abdelrahman proved his 89.21 m from Shanghai was no fluke as he launched the javelin out to 87.10 m to win from 2007 world champion Tero Pitkamaki with 86.63 m.

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Like Trump, de Blasio acts as if his limited electoral successes are evidence he is riding the crest of a great and irresistible social tide, and that the polls proving his deep and intractable unpopularity are a kind of fluke, rather than the other way around.

The Fluke 115 is a part of the Fluke family of awesome multimeters and has a ton of solid features for automotive troubleshooting as well as working with other electronics and around the house.

There were even some hints of such «anisotropy» in the early 2000s, when measurements from NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) spacecraft suggested that some subtle undulations in the motley CMB appeared to line up along a so - called «axis of evil» — which most researchers discount as a statistical fluke.

Instead of being an evolutionary fluke, the new find suggests that Effigia was part of a specialized subgroup of bipedal crocodile cousins that diversified at the same time as the early dinosaurs.

It is among the top 10 most popular fish caught in U.S. waters by recreational anglers, who relish pursuit of «flatties,» or «doormats,» as the largest fluke are sometimes called.

But study coauthor Jon Hare, of NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Narragansett, R.I., says that's not the case for all fish: Climate change has caused a northward shift for two other northeastern fish grouped in the same management plan as the fluke: the popular black sea bass, and the small scup or porgy, which is often caught by fishers targeting other catch.

Konigsberg says that if it is a fluke, that should become clear by the end of the summer as the Fermilab teams analyze more data.

Although the particle could very well be a fluke signal that disappears as further data from the LHC come in, theorists» time is still well spent analysing it, says theoretical physicist Lisa Randall of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As the dolphin emerges, that resistance greatly decreases and, with one last push of its fluke, it accelerates into a pirouette.

Each humpback's fluke is as unique as a human's fingerprint, and bears a one - of - a-kind pigmentation pattern.

Fish studies the movement of the tail and its two side fins, known as flukes.

And last winter may not have been a fluke: Those kinds of extremes — years of deluge and years of drought — are already becoming more common as climate change accelerates.

It also ended up with $ 210 million for research into breast cancer as a result of a legislative fluke.

ICC is prevalent in South - East Asia - including Thailand - mainly as a result of liver fluke infection.

While 2015 may prove to be a fluke, computer models predict similar conditions will become more common as atmospheric levels of man - made greenhouse gases increase.

You can just mark up the experience as one of those flukes and go on with your life.

It would be easy to write off Buscemi's maiden effort as a serendipitous fluke, but just like that squirrely face of his, you know that surface values are merely the outer layer.

Will The Dark Knight start to be looked at, not as a sign of things to come, but a fluke that shows that audiences only really want to watch self - important superheroes when they grew up with them?

As Abby loses her gift of touch, her socially awkward dentist brother inadvertently heals a patient suffering from a jaw disorder, and though he claims that it was just a fluke, he continues to cure hundreds of other patients who reverently seek him out to take away their own afflictions.

I had intention to skip this follow - up as well, but I ended up seeing it on a fluke chance, and given that the only real correlation between the two movies is the main character, I figured I could just pick it up without needing to complete the experience of its predecessor.

At age 11, she was the second - youngest winner of all time (Tatum O'Neal was only 10 when she won for Paper Moon), and her performance turned out to be no fluke: Not only is she still around 20 years later, the star of a hit TV series, but her stunning work in Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret recently made her a critical darling all over again as an adult.