Sentences with phrase «great stroke of luck»

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

That turned out to be a great stroke of luck for Kendall because when he re-excavated the palace, he found that the doorjambs had collapsed, and their inscriptions were unreadable.

It took a long time for the Tory Party to take Maggie to their hearts, but she had a great stroke of luck when the Russians dubbed her The Iron Lady in 1975 - a title that stuck, and which the cartoonists loved.

This was a great stroke of luck for proponents.

West made Divac the 26th pick of the 1989 NBA draft, and Divac says it was one of the greatest strokes of luck he ever had.

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As for the company, he took an incredible stroke of luck and saw this great opportunity and established something.

In a stroke of great luck, Padilla and Smith made their discoveries just as physicist Valerie Browning, a new DARPA program manager, was launching an initiative of her own.

And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, for decades to come he will be held fast under the thumb of despotism: made to represent Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York City, forced into joining the Party and compelled, constantly, to weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music.

Across the nation, newspapers and magazines decried the sad stroke of luck that had robbed the nation of one of its great men.