Sentences with phrase «by luck of»

Boltanski has long speculated on the forces of chance, asking whether our births were the result of providence, by some luck of the draw, or destiny.

By the luck of the draw, I had the chance to race in my first ever sled dog race.

Every large fund company is starting new funds left and right, and seeding them, and then by luck some of them will do well, and they'll have a nice track record, and then they'll sell them.

By luck of the draw, I got to spend a day with it.

«If they randomly picked their answers, by the luck of the draw they could come pretty damn close,» said Bill Hammond, who runs the Texas Association of Business, a lobbying group.

The random assignment of students to classrooms, however, meant that pairs of children with the same birthday fell into different positions in their classroom age distribution by the luck of the draw.

By the luck of the Irish, the map will remain playable in the game after the event concludes.

The oddity of having a mixture of bishops, appointees and those there by luck of birth, is one of the clearest examples.

So personality does make a difference, and sometimes (by the luck of the draw; it's not your fault) you get a fussy, needy baby.

Cups are frequently won by the luck of the draw.

This was the sticking point in my own little lame march to salvation: admission to heaven is gained by luck of the draw.

Our evolution from apes means we aren't necessarily here for a specific purpose, but rather by luck of the draw and good old fashioned survival instinct.

Not exact matches

At the end of the day, real success is accomplished by having a sound idea, flawless execution and a dash of luck.

Rather, Outfit7 Investments Ltd. (Outfit7) said in a press release that its shareholders have sold 100 percent of the company to a consortium of investors from Asia, represented by United Luck Group Holdings Limited under the leadership of Ou Yaping.

This means that business owners who track keyword data provided by Google on search traffic are now out of luck as keywords won't be supplied for these secure searches.

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.

She was made to last for a two - year mission, but with any luck (and judging by the hearty 9 - years - and - still - going run of the Opportunity Mars rover) she will far outlast that.

Unless the deal was struck or consummated by January 16th, your bank is out of luck.

But by the time he applied, the visas, which are awarded on a lottery basis, were all taken, so he was out of luck.

The Gare Viger «popped up by luck,» says Dasilva: The former hotel and railway station — an architectural cousin of the Château Frontenac — was being restored after years of neglect.

Elliott, it seemed, had lucked into its desired outcome out of the blue, by way of its opponent's unforced error.

While almost every successful business venture owes some portion of its success to a lucky break, the luck - dominant business leaders strategically expose themselves to luck by developing organic, deep connections with a group of people and then having the open and optimistic outlook in life to be able to take advantage of opportunities when they present themselves.

By a stroke of luck, the Loss Prevention Team at the Ritz phoned the Hurn family that very evening to tell them they had found Joshie.

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.

The good news is our good fortune is not a matter of luck but the result of good planning, strong oversight, solid well - managed banks and wise decisions by our clients.

With any luck, today's speech by Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney will be the final word on the «Dutch Disease» debate in Canada:

People retire on little more than luck and a prayer and are forced back into the workforce by the cold, biting wind of economic reality.

When I walked through Downtown with Hsieh, who brings the collision with him by typically traveling with a posse of 10 or so people, Hsieh told me he wants to «institutionalize return on luck,» and to emphasize «collisions over convenience.»

Best of luck and thanks for stopping by!

Hard work, education, smart investing, frugality, risk taking, and plain ol' luck were some of the main factors ultra-high-net-worth investors used to describe themselves when surveyed by the Spectrem Group.

A recent paper by the economists Paola Giuliano and Antonio Spilimbergo shows that generations that endured a recession in early adulthood became more concerned about inequality and more cognizant of the role luck plays in life.

We believe that Low / No Moat companies are so subject to the competitive nature of the markets in which they operate that their future is far more governed by luck than by conditions within their control.

Assuming none of these situations apply, creditors are usually «out of luck» for any debts that can't be paid by the value of your estate.

Investing your money on stocks without knowledge of what you are doing is simply foolish, even if you make some money by luck, you will definitely lose it because luck can't carry you far in the stock market.

The venerable oil and gas giant lost its AAA rating from Standard and Poor in April 2016, which thought a symbolic loss (it shared the rating with Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson) indicated the damage wrought by years of low prices and some pretty terrible luck, notably Tillerson's lost $ 500 billion deal in Russia as the result of Western sanctions.

What about that bunch of MPs from Québec, you know, who were practically elected by having the luck to have had their names put on a ballot that was supposed to go... nowhere.

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.

Austin is not using the Bible as an excuse, rather helping to provide God's own words by using the Bible instead of his own voice... you're arguing with God not Austin... Good luck.

This has caused him to be reviled and chastised by members of his family which are devout Southern churchgoers at a time when he needs the most moral support, as he is trying to turn his luck around through smart, hard work and to do right by his wife and children.

Those of us capable of rational thought aren't the least bit scared by Satan but good luck with your scare tactics.

I picture my mother years and years ago — younger than I am now by ten years at least — sitting in the corner of the couch, her first real bible in her lap, underlining practically the entire book of John with tears in her eyes, like she can't believe her luck.

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!!!

To dismiss this by saying that God will take care of you is really to say that someone else will provide for your needs, that you are planning on luck or on being a burden to society (or to some group or individual), and that you are planning not only on not being able to help the poor but on taking resources yourself that otherwise could have gone to help others.

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?

The strangers put you out all by yourself in the middle of nowhere and wish you luck for the next 24 hours.

They would recognize that much of the outcome would be determined by sheer luck, including the «prebirth lottery» of who one's parents are and how great one's native endowments of brains and beauty.

In 1999 by a combination of luck and skill a search and rescue team extricated a F117 pilot from Yugoslavia.

As far as I know all Muslim boys are given the name of Mogamat with their other names for Good Luck Most do not use Mogamat but are called by one of their other names