Sentences with phrase «of a minor miracle»

I have to confess that it's something of a minor miracle the feature has survived as long as it has.

My father, a man of minor miracles, had done something pretty incredible.

I am not writing Arsenal out of the race for the Premier League title this season just yet, well not completely anyhow but I reckon it would take some kind of minor miracle for it to be Arsene Wenger and the Gunners who lifted the EPL trophy next May.

«But it was a bit of a minor miracle that a bunch of people who have never done this before were able to arrange wholesale manufacturing for a new device and get it shipped from China.»

Petar Hubchev's side are currently placed fourth in Group A with 13 points, and they are in need of a minor miracle if they are to progress to their first World Cup finals since 1998.

Given all this, not to mention the fact that a series of attempts at mega-regionalism had all failed, it is something of a minor miracle that the TPP negotiations finally reached a conclusion, which they did in October 2016.

On a cold, snowy / slushy Saturday lunchtime, Arsenal laboured to a 2 - 0 victory that will have hardly inspired any of us to think that some kind of minor miracle will take place between now and May.

which, in my opinion is a bit of a minor miracle, now back to your homework, theres a good lad, off ya go, go on, you know what to do.

Which, given the bleak economic news underpinning it, is something of a minor miracle.

This kind of filmmaking is painfully rare in America, and it's something of a minor miracle that McCarthy was able to fool investors into funding this movie; happily it's good enough and, frankly, winning enough that audiences will likely take to it and return the favor.

This is kind of a minor miracle, given the well - publicized woes of the critical world, and even though I'm way below the poverty line and living more - or-less subsistence level, I'm perfectly happy to have made it so far.

That director Peter Jackson was able to consistently sustain such a complicated — and, frankly, potentially dull — story over nearly 12 hours, juggling at least two - dozen characters over criss - crossing storylines and massive battle sequences, is something of a minor miracle.

On the bright side, at least this one is on the Virtual Console — something of a minor miracle, as most games on this list seem like they either should already be but aren't, or likely never will.

To persuade the Congress of the pragmatically inclined United States to establish a strong organization to support fundamental research would seem to be one of the minor miracles... When talking matters over with some of these [people on Capitol Hill], it was well to avoid the word fundamental and to use basic instead.