Sentences with phrase «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.

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

Cups are frequently won by the luck of the draw.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

I have often been accused of making excuses for a poor Arsenal result by blaming our bad luck, whether it be the usual injury crisis, some decisions by the referee, an unfavourable cup draw or just the general rub of the green.

A player can get the luck of the draw and be on the course during the prime weather, or get hammered by conditions instead.

Liverpool don't have goal scoring midfielders either, spurs have loads - so you and Rodgers can keep on banging on about the bad luck and lack of decisions but this is the Prem and games are won lost and drawn by the smallest of margins, you'll continue to get those bad decisions as will spurs, you just need to score enough or not concede so that the issues don't affect the result That's why we're going for 3rd and you'll be lucky to come top half Neither was a pen FYI, Hansen said so

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Campbell double act (Emirates Cup) Report: Sanogo upstages Sánchez in Arsenal romp (Emirates Cup)

I think it was mostly the luck of the draw that they got two kids who by temperament were willing to eat (even if grudgingly) whatever they were given (though I definitely wasn't so easy on other fronts!).

But depending on who's writing and drawing her, the comics» depiction of this amorphous power has been inconsistent: Her luck comes off as more or less just making things happen — bullets hit, or lightning strikes, or she's saved by the slightest of nudges.

Zodiarcs» turn - based strategy leans heavily on your choice of cards but these depend on the luck of the draw augmented by dice rolls.

One concern teachers may have about any system that rates them based on their students» performance is, What if, by design or luck of the draw, they teach many students who are academically challenged by factors beyond the teacher's control?

Two players could stand side by side and hit the attack button simultaneously but it seemed like nothing more than luck of the draw as to which one of the players were actually hit.

Luck of the Draw, DiverseWorks» annual fundraiser features more than 200 original works of art created by artists from across the country, each available for $ 100 each.

Luck of the Draw is a large - scale original abstract painting by multimedia artist Kristen Schiele.

Group Exhibitions 2016 Regrouping, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Spaced, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Philadelphia Painters, Kutztown University, Kutztown PA 2015 Summer Group Exhibition, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Haunted Summer, One Mile Gallery, Kingston, NY The Nothing That Is: Chapter 1 DDDRRRAAAWWWIIINNNGGG, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC (Curated by Bill Thelen and Jason Polan) Paintings in Trees, The People's Garden, Brooklyn, NY 2014 Mark DeLong and Sarah Gamble, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Katherine Bradford and Sarah Gamble, Adams / Ollman Gallery, Portland, OR Listening In: Philly Artists Speak, Abington Art Center, Philadelphia, PA (with Grizzly Grizzly) Begin Where You Are, Crane Arts, Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia, PA Love's Industrial Park, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Brooklyn, NY Between Matter and Experience, Presidents Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Underdonk Selects, Underdonk Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2013 Reprefantasion: Abstracting Reality / Representing Fantasy, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Drawing Down the Moon, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Group Show: Paintings and Drawings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY Love's Industrial Park, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA Psychedelphia, Pageant Soloveev Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Season Review: Selected Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY 2012 Assembly 2012, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY First Contact, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY Peep, A Curious Look Into Painting, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2011 Free Range: Painting at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Morgan Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2010 Lee Arnold, Sarah Gamble, Andrew Gbur, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Philadelphia Painters, The Painting Center, New York, NY Places, Everyone, Cross McLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2009 Art of the State, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA Former AIR, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2008 Philagrafika Invitational Portfolio, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA Vision Quest, School 33 Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2007 Sarah Gamble and Terra Fuller, PS122 Gallery, New York, NY minty, VoxPopuli Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 2006 New Trends in Painting, Concordia University, Seward, NE Omaha Hobo Showbo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE Wrote For Luck, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Voxenniel, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Bad Touch, Lump Gallery, Rose Museum at Brandeis, Rose Museum at Brandeis University 2003 The New Acropolis, Fleisher / Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Maybe it's luck of the draw by who constructed it at the factory?

This means, for example, that, while a child in the state preschool program is likely to experience a developmentally appropriate curriculum offered by qualified teachers with a rich set of learning materials in a small class setting, the learning experience provided to a child in a more flexible child care voucher program is subject to the luck of the draw.