Sentences with phrase «got lucky for»

You may be looking at a manager who got lucky for five consecutive years.

Much the same could be said about the Best Director Prize: David Gordon Green got lucky for a job efficiently done with Prince Avalanche.

Teams or players can get lucky for a season in terms of scoring goals or winning championships but, for a player to have great skills and abilities to dribble and be create is not luck.

2) Get lucky for a change with injuries.

We get lucky for once this season from our under performance in the CL group stage but still bottle it and fck it up.

Most of our diapers are bamboo or cotton pre-folds and I dry them on a drying rack, so I may have just gotten lucky for a first time mom!

I've been getting Lucky for almost 10 years now (A-OH!

Users who did not get lucky for the first time, are recommended to join the Waitlist.

Sometimes you might get lucky for a short time — for example, in the early 2000s, buyers of Internet start - ups made far more profit than investors who stuck with well - established companies.

Not exact matches

Making one mistake doesn't doom you to a lifetime of financial struggle, and getting lucky once — even winning the lottery — doesn't necessarily mean you're set for life.

Some lucky few get an apartment paid for by mom and dad.

Lucky for them, they're about to get just that in the form of corporate earnings season, at least according to firms across Wall Street.

I was lucky enough to get a contract gig that kept me working until my due date, but by the time I delivered, I was jobless and therefore ineligible for any paid leave.

In their quest to create maximum value, Jad Toubayly and Easa Al Gurg have constructed Idealz as a platform that allows its customers (registered members) to purchase an item of clothing or stationery, which also gets them a complimentary ticket into a lucky draw for a luxury prize.

But even today, people insist Facebook was an overnight success and that they got lucky because of the way the media portrays it and the way people try to come up with justifications for it.

AS the time for nominations to the WA Business News Legal Elite nears an end, we are pleased to announce that top WA winemaker Howard Park Wines has come aboard to offer a case of mixed reds to a lucky entrant who gets their nomination form in before the May 21 close.

Sure, you may get lucky and convert a few random prospects into paying customers, but that isn't a sustainable business model for long - term success.

A couple reporters in the mainstream — such as Steve Tilley at Sun / Canoe and Raju Mudhar at the Toronto Star — are either lucky enough to work for brass who do take games seriously, or they have fought hard enough to get them taken as such.

After my traditional line of questioning and selling the great points about the career ahead for anyone lucky enough to get this position, I launched into my full disclosure and she sat staring at me like one does a child who is walking a fine balance atop a 4 - foot brick wall — with anticipation, excitement and a heaping does of sheer shock and wonder all mixed together.

The clip on performance bias, for example, explains why some people are perceived as naturally talented, while others as having «gotten lucky.»

The pivotal moment, DeLuca says, came about 10 years ago, when Subway positioned itself as a healthful, quick alternative to burgers and fries, created a strategy for major expansion — and got lucky when Jared Fogle discovered the company's low - fat subs.

It is a crazy expensive sport and I am totally aware and grateful for how lucky I was that I got to do it and then coach it later on.

By opening up bids for its second headquarters to cities and municipalities across the country, Amazon is countering that narrative: For only a few billion dollars in tax breaks, the lucky winner would get 50,000 jofor its second headquarters to cities and municipalities across the country, Amazon is countering that narrative: For only a few billion dollars in tax breaks, the lucky winner would get 50,000 joFor only a few billion dollars in tax breaks, the lucky winner would get 50,000 jobs.

But his bet does underscore a powerful investing lesson we can all benefit from: You might get lucky every once in a while trying to time the market, but over time, it often doesn't even work for the pros.

Through blogging, I've been lucky enough to get mentioned in the press, invited to conferences, meet industry influencers, gain the attention of clients and get hired for full - time marketing roles.

Specifically, Coinone Indonesia's website states that the «lucky 10,000 persons who practical for pre-registration will be selected to get trade price [of] 0.00 % banking and [the] Qtum Airdrop.»

As for the net worth I truly do believe I got lucky, and that I am blessed with some pretty amazing people in my life who might even care «too» much about me.

But unfortunately, there's no silver bullet for getting rich unless you're lucky enough to win the lottery.

The stakes in Monopoly just got higher, at least for 80 lucky buyers in France.

I can try for the risky shots and get lucky on a few but, more often than not, the ball is going to go soaring over the fence and I'll be running after it.

And if you were lucky enough to get there yourself (how many small mammal murders does it take to qualify for Hell?)

I count myself lucky that I am where I am today, and that even though I am with my deepest regards sorry for what has happened to 9/11 and other radical Muslim attacks, I am also sorry for those poor boys in Afghanistan, who believe they have no life in this world, the boys who will never get a good education, the boys who will never be thought of boys, but terrorists, murderers, and worthy of nothing but dirt by people, never to truly lead a good life.

Those liberal - leaning outlets determine the terms of debate and — if we are lucky — a spokesman for our causes will get (almost) equal time for a debate where the ground has been chosen by the opposition.

He could win if he were perceived as more competent — and he might get lucky (economically, for example) or he might just get more competent.

In a world built up by chance, God would no more be responsible for the success of his «offspring» than a father whose children got fed and dressed because they were lucky enough to find scraps of food and clothing in the neighbors» trash bins.

if they are lucky enough to get into the pastor's home for a quick visit (or an indoctrination course), then the buy - in is close to 100 %.

If the intellectuals in the plays of Chekhov who spent all their time guessing what would happen in twenty, thirty, or forty years had been told that in forty years interrogation by torture would be practiced in Russia; that prisoners would have their skulls squeezed within iron rings; that a human being would be lowered into an acid bath; that they would be trussed up naked to be bitten by ants and bedbugs; that a ramrod heated over a primus stove would be thrust up their anal canal («the secret brand»); that a man's genitals would be slowly crushed beneath the toe of a jackboot; and that, in the luckiest possible circumstances, prisoners would be tortured by being kept from sleeping for a week, by thirst, and by being beaten to a bloody pulp, not one of Chekhov's plays would have gotten to its end because all the heroes would have gone off to insane asylums.

Maybe we'll get lucky and the world will end for these people on the 21st while we just go about our business.

Those who were lucky enough to be pulled or pushed, a year or so ago, to the Beatles» first movie, A Hard Day's Night, will recall the enchanting scene in which the four of them escape from the prison - like television studio, where worldly men are trying to get them to perform properly, and flee to an open field for a few surrealistic moments of jumping, dancing, abandon.

I was lucky enough to get a Vitamix from my lovely hubby for Crimbo, so there's no stopping me now!!!

We were lucky too - only without for about 18 hours, but our surrounding neighbors just got power last night!

Lucky for him, he can now get his vitamins from something other than the powdered ones sprayed on his Cinnamon Toast Crunch.

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Can't wait for your book, maybe I'll get lucky and see you at the signing in Seattle — keep up the good work:)

I don't know how I managed to avoid the dreaded cracked cheesecake - just got lucky I guess;P But that's what berries are for anyhow, right?

Sometimes if I was lucky my Mom would make them for us after school and they'd still be warm, not quite set and all gooey by the time we got home.

I say it's not lucky for me because as a person who tries hard to eat healthy and natural foods often, the second we get to Cafe Rio all I want to do is order 5 tortillas and a grande dressing and go to down.

Happy Birthday to the little dude!!!! Gosh he is too cute, and super lucky to get this for his birthday cake!

I love the McCormick Gourmet collection; you are so very lucky to get chosen for the program.

Lucky me got a brand spanking new waffle maker for Christmas from one of my relatives and since I've never done a waffle recipe on the blog before, I thought it was a great opportunity to do a little experimenting.