Sentences with phrase «by stroke of luck»

There are a precious few times in life where it just seems like the stars have aligned and by some stroke of luck everything in life is going your way.

But the truth is, even if by some stroke of luck you land a position, using this hit - or - miss, anything - will - do strategy, the job you land would very likely be one that you would be miserable in!

I was accepted and by a stroke of luck I ended up going to Paris in June of 1968, a couple weeks after the May riots.

The story follows an earthworm named Jim who one day, while doing earthworm things, a super suit falls from the sky which by a stroke of luck Jim manages to land in the suit transforming him to a more intelligent earthworm hero.

In early 2013, he was just one of the thousands of homeless animals brought to one of our local municipal shelters in the Midlands, but by a stroke of luck or fate or perfect timing, there was space for him in Pawmetto Lifeline's adoption program.

By some stroke of luck, I'm on my ambulatory rotation, where 4th - year students are not considered essential personnel and so are not required to -LSB-...]

And all of these early books will have been read by only the wonderful, beautiful, generous people whom by the stroke of luck or fate or whatever, happened to know me or know of me at the time.

«This day didn't just happen for these student by some stroke of luck,» said Uncommon Charter High School Principal Thomas O'Brien.

By some stroke of luck, while we waited in line for 30 minutes to ride the terrifying teacups, Greyson fell asleep!

But by a stroke of luck, two social scientists who later became leaders of Katrina@10 were uniquely poised to try.

By a stroke of luck, symptoms were mild in the vast majority of cases.

* By a stroke of luck the day the movers came, our old post office delivery person brought my Daily Goodie Box to our door.

It is by some stroke of luck that you had a good outcome at home, removed from a medical environment.

Even if by some stroke of luck climate change doesn't affect us during our lifetime (wishful thinking), I would hate to leave this huge burden and mess for our children to clean up.

I live by the stroke of luck.»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

If, by some stroke of terrible luck, they ask, just tell them that the account is in Michael Haas's name, and you partner with him (me) on the ticket purchase every year.

It was a stroke of luck that made me realize she was instantly calmed by the sound of the hairdryer.

In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.

It has clearly been handmade by someone either called Michelle or who gave it to a Michelle but hey what a random stroke of luck for me?

It's a smart movie — a quintessentially L.A. one, too, in its self - awareness (the nameless hero is a stuntman, Richard Rush fans take note), and it has an extraordinary quality of stillness that paints in confident strokes what it feels like to be completely alone by luck you call choice.

But by an amazing stroke of luck, Pirates 4 is something that Pirates 2 and 3 never were: fun.

By a great stroke of luck, he went to work for the eminent scientist Sir Humphry Davy.

By a stroke of rare good luck, their shotgun relationship worked.

It is only by a stroke of good luck that help arrives for Judy, and Frederica is saved from her prison.

His misfortune in being picked up by the dog catcher and ending up in the «pokey,» so to speak, turned out to be a stroke of luck for him.

This stroke of bad luck for his colleague unexpectedly opens the door for Peter to travel Europe and get paid into the bargain, accompanied by his beautiful photographer girlfriend, Sue.

Whatever your preferred control method, there's a good combination of skill and luck required, although things do tend to lean towards the «too easy» side of the ledger, with online tournaments regularly won by people coming in 20 or more strokes under par.

But then by some random stroke of luck, another ex-Nintendo GPC, Kasey Curtis, found my interview with Kirk and left a comment so I did what every writer would have done — I asked him for an interview!

The eggs, designed by some well - known and some not so famous artists, fashion designers, architectural firms, and sponsored by local and international art galleries (Waterhouse & Dodd, Leila Heller Gallery), fashion houses, companies and individuals ranged from transcendently beautiful and inspired to, well, better - luck - next - time, as in the case of Julian Schnabel «s hurried double stroke, either done in his sleep or by some vengeful former assistant.

In 2002 the regional State Garden Show Euroga 2002 + proved a major stroke of luck for Mönchengladbach, not least because the museum's Sculpture Garden could be enriched, with support from the North - Rhine Westphalian government, by a number of works, including by Larry Bell, Dan Peterman, Franz West, Jorge Pardo and Stefan Kern.

Oh, these are stylized silhouettes, but astonishing in their miniature resemblance, obtained by means of luck, iron wire, spools, corks, elastics... A stroke of the brush, a stroke of the knife, of this, of that; these are the skillful marks that reconstruct the individuals that we see at the circus.

When i said that GCM's could by a pure stroke of luck have guessed the cooling of the stratosphere correctly i left open the justified question about why the stratosphere could be cooling, if cloud cover is not a reasonable explanation.

Driving in Hazardous Conditions in New Mexico Driving always encompasses a certain amount of risk, but most often motorists are injured not by a stroke of bad luck but due to the negligence of another.