Sentences with phrase «more by luck»

Unfortunately, though, during my first 2 weeks in the lab I made the big mistake of being too successful, although I should stress that it was more by luck than by judgement.

Another City attack minutes later was thwarted, more by luck than anything else.

Not exact matches

More likely they created their own luck by being near the problem and the people it affected.

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.

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.

AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT ARSENAL

At his size I would think he could luck into more than that without trying just by being in the game...

The detested UNC student body even sent Duke a good luck scroll signed by more than 15,000 Tar Heels — a symbol of the camaraderie that gripped the nation.

So, just as I expect the Yankees to perform better as Sanchez and Stanton start to hit, as Bird, a healthy Drury, and possibly Torres replace Wade, Walker, and Blurry Drury, and Tanaka's splitter comes to life in the warmer weather, I also expect the Red Sox to come back to a more earthly level of play, and possibly be affected by their own strings of bad luck.

Arsenal have been plagued by injury problems a lot more than our Premier League rivals in recent years and there is a strong argument that our bad luck on this front has cost the Gunners at least one title win, so we are always concerned about one or more of our stars picking up a knock, especially when they head off on international duty.

That is not the only bad luck we have had by any means, with offside decisions, penalties for and against and more.

No doubt we shot poorly throughout the game, but the second I think was caused more by Miami then just dumb luck.

Lady BABIP is more useful when it's compared to the individual's career BABIP than a general standard, because some players are just better hitters by virtue of their skill; BABIP is not just simply random luck.

The Spaniard is set for a return in February and if we are not hit by more bad luck and Chelsea's takes a turn for the worst I think it would make the race for the title very interesting indeed.

While Luck's surgery was described by Colts owner Jim Irsay as an outpatient procedure that wouldn't threaten the 2017 regular season, it has clearly become a more significant issue than that.

Well we came second last season but more by good luck than good management.

Luck threw one more time into the end zone and was very nearly intercepted by Luke Kuechly on a pass intended for Johnson.

We could be hit with more bad luck in the form of poor decisions by referees and injury problems to key players.

Ricciardo hasn't had a lot of luck at the Australian Grand Prix but a home win has been made even more tricky by a crash in qualifying.

While the boss was quite positive in an Arsenal.com report about the knocks picked up by Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott in the win over Bournemouth he also suggested that the right back Matthieu Debuchy is more serious and with our first choice Hector Bellerin already on the injury list this is bad news and just highlights how bad our luck is.

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inspired Liverpool (Capital One Cup) Report: Sterling slalom checks Chelsea in League Cup (Capital One Cup) Reaction: Arsenal masterclass sets standard, says Wenger (Premier League) Report: Cazorla stars as Arsenal stun Man City (Premier League) Reaction: Van Gaal defends methods after United defeat (Premier League) Report: Tadić strike punishes shot - shy Man United (Premier League) Report: Bloodied Skrtel earns Liverpool a point (Premier League) Reaction: In - form United «forcing luck», says Van Gaal (Premier League) Report: De Gea stars as United deepen Liverpool gloom (Premier League) Reaction: Liverpool will «fight» for return — Rodgers (Champions League) Report: Basel thwart Liverpool to reach last 16 (Champions League) Reaction: Van Persie rescued United, admits Van Gaal (Premier League) Report: Van Persie sends lacklustre Man United third (Premier League) Report: Agüero undoes Southampton as Man City go second (Premier League) Report: Stunning Agüero treble gives Man City hope (Champions League) Reaction: Hodgson dismayed by England fan chants (friendly) Report: Rooney at the double as England silence Scots (friendly) Report: Rooney, Welbeck inspire England fightback (Euro 2016 qualifying) Report: Tevez returns as Argentina overcome Croatia (friendly) Reaction: Man City have «crisis of confidence» — Pellegrini (Champions League) Report: Nine - man Man City left on brink by CSKA Moscow (Champions League) Reaction: Van Gaal says beaten Man United getting closer (Premier League) Report: Agüero gives City spoils against 10 - man United (Premier League) Reaction: Shocks are warning for England, says Hodgson (Euro 2016 qualifying) Report: Rooney on mark as England school San Marino (Euro 2016 qualifying) Reaction: Mourinho urges Chelsea to stay grounded (Premier League) Reaction: Wenger plays down Mourinho touchline spat (Premier League) Report: Hazard, Costa sink Arsenal in stormy derby (Premier League) Reaction: Pellegrini rues carelessness after Roma hold City (Champions League) Report: Totti makes history as Roma thwart Man City (Champions League) Reaction: Rodgers heartened by Liverpool resilience (Champions League) Reaction: Van Gaal wants more from match - winner Di María (Premier League) Report: Falcao debuts as Man United crush QPR (Premier League) Reaction: Hodgson hails Welbeck for biding his time (Euro 2016 qualifying) Report: Welbeck gives improved England winning start (Euro 2016 qualifying) Reaction: Angry Hodgson dismisses England statistics (friendly) Report: Rooney rescues England in turgid Norway win (friendly) Reaction: Wenger backs Sánchez to fill Giroud's shoes (Champions League) Reaction: Pellegrini gladdened by Jovetić display (Premier League) Report: Jovetić at the double as Man City sink Liverpool (Premier League) Reaction: Ancelotti predicts «new cycle» for Madrid (UEFA Super Cup) Report: Ronaldo still the boss as Madrid win Super Cup (UEFA Super Cup) Reaction: Wembley win sets tone for Arsenal — Wenger (Community Shield) Report: Vibrant Arsenal down Man City in Community Shield (Community Shield) Reaction: «Lethargic» Arsenal not ready yet — Wenger (Emirates Cup) Report: Falcao scores comeback goal to sink Arsenal (Emirates Cup) Reaction: Wenger enthused by Sanogo - Campbell double act (Emirates Cup) Report: Sanogo upstages Sánchez in Arsenal romp (Emirates Cup)

For once a referee's poor decision - making did not cost us three points and if the winner was controversial because of an alleged handball by Sam Vokes, then it was no more than Burnley deserved on the night, having peppered the Leicester goal with 24 shots, had 60 % of the possession, and had a nailed on penalty claim (maybe two) ignored in the first half, Mike Dean showing again that with him it is pot luck whether or not any team is awarded a penalty.

It was hilarious to see us getting some luck for once and the Sky pundits getting more and more irritated by this.

Do I want to play pot - luck with whether I get a good midwife who respects me and listens to me, or one who is more interested in playing it by the book and doing things her way for an easy life?

Most of my breastfeeding books (such as Le Leche Leagues, Womanly Art of Breastfeeding) briefly touch upon nursing aversion, and even fewer talk about the role of pregnancy in your breastfeeding relationship (rumour has it Adventures in Tandem Nursing by Hilary Flower might expand more on the topic, but good luck getting your hands on a copy).

But a friend of mine said to me the other day that it isn't anything to do with luck - that she and her family have chosen to cut their income by more than half, going without financially, in order for her to be a «stay at home» Mom.

A handful of upstate members have realized they're likely to have better luck at seeing results on their priorities, which often differ from those of their more liberal downstate counterparts, if they band together — much like the black and Latino members have done by creating their own caucus.

The lifetime odds of being struck by lightning are higher than you might think — about 1 in 5,000 — but it still takes bad luck (and a dangerous lifestyle) to be hit more than once.

What Japan's crisis — the unlikely product of an earthquake, a tsunami and more than a little bad luck — taught the United States, he said, was that no matter how many contingencies an agency plans for, there can always be an assembly of forces that takes you by surprise.

But those rulers may have had more to blame than just bad luck: According to a new study, volcanic eruptions around the ancient world likely suppressed the Nile's annual floods — critical for agriculture — by altering rainfall upriver in the Ethiopian highlands several times from the third to first centuries B.C.E..

When you are more confident, try pushing your luck by running two experiments in parallel, then three, and so on.

(3) Since research grants by their nature are competitive, the present shortage of research grant funding results in the very best applicants being fully funded, but most of the others are out of luck; we need more money in order to support all our dedicated university scientists!

So basically, whether by sheer bad luck or knowingly eating a poor diet, you could make yourself far more vulnerable to summer acne than others, who end up getting winter acne.

I personally think you'd have good luck with Boden's Soho Skinny Jeans, which have more room through the waist (hence the reviews calling them «baggy» by some, probably people with ruler shapes) or their Trafalgar Straight Leg Jeans, which have a higher rise and some room through the leg.

That being said, most people I talk to have more luck on the pay sites and more than once I've been told by women they meet more serious guys more quickly on sites like Match.

However, if Katniss Everdeen is your heroine of choice you're still in luck; female fans of the Hunger Games receive 44 % more online communication and men see the number of messages they receive increase by 21 % when they namecheck Suzanne Collins» series.

He wanted to find a special woman to share his life with and felt he would have more luck by looking in another country.

EliteSingles boosts your luck in love by by cutting out irrelevant matches — meaning you have more time to spend on men with real partner potential.

It is a common misconception that in order to find love, you have more luck relying on being set up by your friends and family than you would take the bolder approach and join a free online dating service.

While it's not just important to sign up for one or more of the most popular Thai dating sites like Thai Friendy, there's also the question what are the pros and cons of spending time on the internet trying to get girls meet you compared to by just walking around the mall and try your luck there.

A century later, the filmmaker seems more leftist, saving Beth from Davis» fate as a satirical target, when by dumb luck, she spots Freeway from her airplane seat, and becomes an accidental hero by concocting a fake emergency to fool the pilots into landing.

Director Brad Peyton — a Newfoundlander, by the way — may have some talent for creating breathless action but he has no more luck stirring emotions here than he did directing San Andreas, another recent Rock vehicle in which a lot of things collapsed.

THE IDLER... is one the most overrated albums that i counl hear in my entire life, its a completely waste of time try to understand every song that conposed this album, i love Fiona's interpretation but the album like a whole thing don't convince me, maybe is the meaningless lyrics or the awful and akward rithm, i can not say more of this album, never will be a masterpiece like Adele's 21, recently named one of the best album ever play by a female singer, this is that i call a good album, I'm sorry Fiona, good luck to the next try.

Instead, it's precipitated by nothing more sinister than a group of good people in over their heads, bedevilled by bad luck, bad decisions, and a little more curiosity than is healthy.

Supporting characters played by Bruce McGill (The Insider, Cinderella Man) and Grant Heslov (more recently the successful co-screenwriter, with George Clooney, of Good Night, and Good Luck) are likewise woefully bereft of development or even mildly funny material.

Working from a tight, uncompromisingly bleak script by Jonathan Bernstein (The Spy Next Door) and James Greer (Just My Luck), the director follows up last summer's Logan Lucky with another genre - bending, self - financed effort that has more going on just underneath the surface than initially meets the eye.

Thrust into an all - new adventure, a down - on - his - luck Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill - fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar (Bardem), escape from the Devil's Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea.

The Commuter by Hope Madden In 2014, Jaume Collet - Serra directed Non-Stop, a Liam Neeson thriller that saw the down - on - his - luck Irishman with a particular set of skills trapped on a speeding vehicle... read more →

I chased The Other Side Of Hope with a film whose existential metaphors and appreciation for the drudgery and social habits of working stiffs couldn't be more different from Kaurismäki's droll, Capra-esque humanism: Good Luck (Grade: B), a striking documentary mood - piece by the American experimental director Ben Russell (Let Each One Go Where He May, A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness).