Sentences with phrase «by bad luck»

Even though he's critically acclaimed as a creator, he's been besieged by bad luck throughout his career, from scheduling conflicts to failing financials to inexplicable cancellations.

When seeking mortgage loans with bad credit, they are more likely to want to know if the low score was achieved by poor money management, or by bad luck.

After a university professor accidently kills a rare bird in «Painted Ocean, Painted Ship,» she is plagued by bad luck that puts both her job and her romantic life in jeopardy.

If by bad luck Jon is not elected, the Overton window will have been moved and in future contests these progressive policies will again be part of any debate.

Enjoyable children's comedy based on the stories of Jeff Kinney and starring Zachary Gordon as Greg, a neurotic 11 - year - old boy whose attempts to become the most popular kid at his school are constantly thwarted by bad luck and his spiteful big brother.

Solo is hobbled early by a herky - jerky start in which Han and his lady love Qi «ra (Game of Thrones» Emilia Clarke, minus her blonde Khalessi tresses) are separated by bad luck and a horde of Imperial goons.

Either by bad luck or design, I was only able to unlock a few of these special items 20 or so hours into the game.

But really, he is a good guy who is down on his luck — he's been beaten down by bad luck and is looking for a break.»

Instead, it's precipitated by nothing more sinister than a group of good people in over their heads, bedevilled by bad luck, bad decisions, and a little more curiosity than is healthy.

Basing a television show on a 20 - year - old movie (and one that had already been turned — unsuccessfully — into a TV series in 1990) is an odd decision in itself, but NBC's new «Parenthood» has also been plagued by bad luck, with original star Maura Tierney forced to drop out due to health problems and the show bounced from fall until March.

I also think too many people are imprisoned by bad luck and lack of opportunity and I want to free them.

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.

You have to feel a little bit sorry for the Arsenal and France international star, because Mathieu Debuchy has been dogged by bad luck since he signed for the Gunners from Newcastle United last summer.

But after Wenger and the lads were left cursing some games when we deserved to win but were denied by some bad luck and some superb goal keeping displays, the same thing actually went in our favour tonight.

Despite finishing at the top of their Champions League group for the first time since the 2011 - 12 campaign, the Gunners were struck by bad luck in the last - 16 draw.

Last but not least there was Girouds goal, I agree that Danny was marginally offside but I mean cummon FFS, if there is any team in Europe who has been plagued by bad luck in recent years its us.....

Australia's Kerry O'Brien has a history of being done in by bad luck, but last week he flouted some dire tidings in a Chinese restaurant to smash the world indoor two - mile record by eight seconds

We had some luck, but the best of our luck (Byrd) was stolen by worse luck.

In the match, Lionel Messi seemed surrounded by the bad lucks.

Not exact matches

They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self - fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.»

Its bad luck began in January when the #DeleteUber movement led to a flurry of account deletions by customers upset about the company's ties to President Trump.

«This is not bad luck: it's astonishingly bad design reinforced by complete carelessness,» wrote forum user Massimo.

A leader can't justifiably be blamed for a force majeure or for some other unforeseeable, unavoidable stroke of bad luck, but oftentimes crises are caused from within and aggravated by the organization itself.

By «its bad luck» I refer to already infamous «iron ceiling» as some people called it.

Most business failures — such as engineering disasters, product malfunctions, and PR crises — are foreshadowed by near misses, close calls that, had luck not intervened, would have had far worse consequences.

Not that I believe in good or bad luck of the stock market as it is purely driven by participant state of mind and mostly their irrational behavior.

Yes, the path is rocky, they say, but peer review, competition between researchers, and the comforting fact that there is an objective reality out there whose test every theory must withstand or fail, all conspire to mean that sloppiness, bad luck, and even fraud are exposed and swept away by the advances of the field.

And by you saying he ruined your life, is very bad to say, he changed my life, I have lived through alot of this, all because I did ask, and I lived, I am getting through, and its thanks to God, he can get you through anything, all things are possible with him, and that is true, my anxiety and depression have gone down (I am still human), and I just am an all around better person because of him, and you should get rid of your Facebook as well, and devote every hour minute anything you can towards God and Christ, turn the tube off, and just devote it to him, I promise you won't be sorry, good luck and God bless!!!

Partly because of bad luck in the sinking of a ship containing Wallace's collection of specimens, he produced nothing remotely like the immense mass of facts assembled by the primary founder of the new science of living things.

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?

As reported by The Mirror, the bad run of injury luck continues as the manager confirmed that it would be at least two months in the treatment room for a player that has become a vital part of the Arsenal team.

AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT ARSENAL

I believe tgere are 3 titke contenders this year Leicester, city and arsenal About Leicester they are doing great but there football depends on counter attacking and few quick passes to reach the ball to mahrez or vardy i don't think they can impress anybody if they faced teams that park the bus like what the teams do with arsenal and also any injury for mahrez or vardy will ruin there season so i don't consider them a real challenge and in an open game we got the best out of them and beat them with 5 goals to 2 so calm down gooners About city they had very impressing start for the season then they were vety baf winning most games by pure luck or last minute goals and they could be beaten easily Arsenal are the best team form we controled most of the games and the losses and draws were by bad referee decisions or bad luck and the 4 points margain with city could have been easily 10 or 12

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 would also stop well short of calling it a great pitched game... but it was certainly effective, and I think to chalk it up as mostly luck and bad performance by the Nats is selling Bettis short a little bit.

Arian can't be feeling too bad as the Colts came back to beat the Lions on a game - winning pass by Andrew Luck.

it would be by pure luck with the above teams playing worse than us and us barely beating teams by 1 - 4 points.

A bit of bad luck by Bono, poor finishing by Altidore, and voila!

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.

I'm not looking to argue how specifically the Rose empire fell, but it was absolutely a combination of horrid decision by management, and also bad luck.

Win in the playoffs until you get beaten while you are playing at or near your best by a team that is just better, or better on that day, or a bad match up, or got lucky, luck happens.

If you know you have bad luck with injuries you address the issue by either:

Kind of backwards to think of it this way but Newton has realy lucked out by having such bad WRs.

Tomy Lee, like First Landing (by whom he was narrowly beaten twice last fall), has been the victim of bad luck for most of the season.

So, just as I expect the Yankees to perform better as Sanchez and Stanton start to hit, as Bird, a healthy Drury, and possibly Torres replace Wade, Walker, and Blurry Drury, and Tanaka's splitter comes to life in the warmer weather, I also expect the Red Sox to come back to a more earthly level of play, and possibly be affected by their own strings of bad luck.

Arsenal have been plagued by injury problems a lot more than our Premier League rivals in recent years and there is a strong argument that our bad luck on this front has cost the Gunners at least one title win, so we are always concerned about one or more of our stars picking up a knock, especially when they head off on international duty.

Words like «magic», «belief», «spirit», «bad luck» and so on, are what Wenger and his deepest supporters keep repeating, but in reality the league is not won by magicians, but by the people with the best formula of quality and hard work, and we do have the quality.

And our unbelievable bad luck was compounded with Szczesny having to be replaced by Martinez.

bad luck is defined by having your feature striker svore 13.3 goals per season in the epl and expecting good results.

I am not sure that I even believe in good luck and bad luck, although being an Arsenal fan in recent years hqas left me cursing the seemingly unfair and bad sequence of fortune that has seen the Gunners beset by things that have adversely affected the club.