Sentences with phrase «of flukes for»

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Unless this chance meeting is some sort of fluke and you ran into this person unexpectedly on the street, there's no excuse for you not to know this person's name.

In case you think January might just have been a fluke, a second EIA report shows that for all of 2015, Canadian crude exports averaged 3.2 million barrels per day, which set a new calendar year record.

The public has had more than enough of the service Ms. Fluke offers in exchange for benefits, but for the time being she can still get birth control at no cost if she chooses a plan that doesn't offer it.

If by some fluke I do find myself heaven - bound on May 21 in a puff of smoke while my ailing mother and father are left down here with no one to care for them as the Horsemen ride over the hill shootin'their 6 - guns, I'm gonna demand a return flight so I can stand guard in front of their house with my NFR - approved lariat, ready for some ropin».

Many high - profile Georgetown personalities, from University President John J. DeGioia to progressive priest Tom Reese to Fluke, declined comment for this story, suggesting a sensitivity to the risk of further polarizing the campus.

A few weeks before that, Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke became a household name after radio personality Rush Limbaugh called her a «slut» and a «prostitute» for testifying to Congress about what she said was the importance of providing contraception coverage to college students.

Prove, once and for all, that you're a true master of the grill and what happened last year was just a fluke?

And if you think 2017 was a fluke, just check out a list of upcoming projects, including Jon Hamm playing the archangel Gabriel for an upcoming TV pilot.

Instead of detailing his many and manifold sins, he launched into a reprise of his argument against birth control coverage in U.S. health plans, and criticized President Obama along the way for coming to Fluke's defense.

(Note: It should be noted that Fluke wasn't just addressing the use of contraceptives for sex, but also for treatment of medical conditions.

It makes her a prostitute... So, if we're gonna sit here, and if we're gonna have a part in this, then we want something in return, Ms. Fluke: And that would be the videos of all this sex posted online so we can see what we are getting for our money.»

That thalidomide was not approved for sale in the United States was more of a bureaucratic fluke than anything else.

One is that goodness is an accident in a material universe with no mind behind it, no purpose running through it, and with nothing to account for it except protons and neutrons going it blind — the cosmos itself a «gigantic accident consequent upon an infinite succession of happy flukes.»

The diagnostic spectrum comprises more than twenty established methods for the detection, quantification and characterization of eggs, larvae and adult stages of gastro - intestinal worms and lung worms, liver fluke and coccidia.

I think if LACAZETTE can keep this up, he's going to claim a place in the french world cup squad next year, his goal scoring instinct is sharp, he knows he won't get too much chances and makes use of the few ones he gets and he was unluncky not to have scored against chelsea and his header wasn't a fluke, he knew where the post were and he directed the ball, he will be handful for defender when our complete squad starts and luckily for us he's not an injury prone player, having him, Sanchez (if he stays), Giroud and Ozil fit will be vital for us this season and i see plenty of goals..

Finishing 6th and making it back to the CL via the winning of the Europa league still spells trouble for next season since the gap with the top of the PL will have been established rather than a one of fluke.

Iwobi recked my head last night he was weak and misplaced many passes he cant seem to control the ball its always running away from him he should not be in the middle in the middle you need good ball controllers with good eyes for passes long and short on the ground and above the ground >> > waterford yesterday were on top of us with no space giving to our players and we were scattered all over the place with no vision or leader ship too goals in the space of 3 minuets ok the first goal was a fluke but come on the second one???? and thats all what it takes to loose a match many times this season we cant play when the opposition seats in our face we have no cohesion or understanding we crumble away we need to start the game together as a unit a compact unit

we had it with Campbell Toure.we are doing well with BFG and Koscielny at the moment.Gabriel can only usurp any if he only proves himself.we shouldn't forget that Mertesacker was a long time starter for one of the best national sides in the world.i don't see that as a weakness or a mere fluke.

leading the league for the majority of last season with him not only as our main option, but our only option must have been fluke then...

If not for a fluke play where the ball hits our CB in the facemask that becomes a TD for them, the Steelers would have had 12 points and 2 of those were off of a safety.

He had one start all season of fewer than six innings, and if not for that fluke appearance, his ERA would have been 2.17.

One of those most satisfying things for me was that Roma didn't fluke this win, or even shade it.

It is good for the bowls who hide under that same curtain, and with brain - flukes firmly in place insist on the virtues of funneling money through the tax code into brightly colored jacket pockets.

We had a lot of movement in the 1st half upfront and that is what got us our goal, not a bit of fluke as Jose said but a bit of play that we played for, that fast movement upfront allowed Theo to beautifully pick out the Ox and when it came to defend that lead, we changed our tactics... which has been a complaint of some Arsenal fans, Wenger not playing the right tactic or the opposition.

It may be a kiddy comp to some of you people but it's the biggest domestic cup comp, it proves that in one competition we were the best in England for 2 years running — it wasn't a fluke, it was deserved.

Thus, the 2016 championship could have been perceived as a fluke, or luck, or the confluence of special players that got hot for their «one shining moment.»

For all we know last season could've been a fluke like with the likes of Benteke etc..

Another FA cup would do me nicely, beating Weast Ham in the final would be a nice revenge for the fluke of years ago.

It's not like he dominated only for some fluke event to rob him of a win.

Had a knack for scoring world - class goals and blessed with a great final ball, it was no fluke Brett Emerton was incredibly highly thought of during his time at Ewood Park.

End of last season was great from Bayern away and of course for them not to lose any of the ten matches after that was no fluke either.

Some of the recent comments from Ivan Gazidis are very concerning with reference to Arsenal now looking to the fluke of Leicester City's title win as justification for how things are going at the club.

Here are two examples: This DCCC petition urges Republicans to denounce Rush Limbaugh for his comments about then - Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke, while this RNC petition calls for the abolishment of the IRS.

Then take a look at the potential opponents and you see Pellegrino (a fluke exposed for being a tax cheat), Halpin a has been, D'Amara a do nothing Legislator with a history of scandal.

This is no statistical fluke — the top 10 most popular destinations for those who've left have an average personal - income tax of 2.9 percent, six points lower than New York's top rate.

«The Governor even had the Chutzpah to suggest the City Council's vote for the BYOBag law was some sort of fluke and shouldn't count,» Kellner wrote, referencing a comment Cuomo made that the council vote on the bag fee bill was a close one while the legislation imposing the moratorium overwhelmingly passed the state Legislature.

The Fluke 115 is a part of the Fluke family of awesome multimeters and has a ton of solid features for automotive troubleshooting as well as working with other electronics and around the house.

The monofin fluke is also made out of silicone, so it is perfect for swimming.

The fluke needs snails and fish for its lifecycle, but there were no such snails or fish in this dry region of china.

For example, researchers can recognize individual humpback whales because each whale has a unique black - and - white pattern on the underside of its tail flukes.

New Jersey led all states in sports fishing for fluke, blasting through its target with more than double the catch of neighboring New York.

Newer studies gauging the odds find that for «Oumuamua's detection to not be an astronomically unlikely fluke, there must be a sizeable population of such objects continuously passing through our solar system.

But study coauthor Jon Hare, of NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Narragansett, R.I., says that's not the case for all fish: Climate change has caused a northward shift for two other northeastern fish grouped in the same management plan as the fluke: the popular black sea bass, and the small scup or porgy, which is often caught by fishers targeting other catch.

The ekpyrotic universe eliminates the need for dark matter and dark energy, makes inflation unnecessary, offers an explanation for the Big Bang, offers an answer to whether our universe is a onetime fluke or one of many, and grows directly out of a physical theory that appears to reconcile all of the currently existing competing theories of high - energy physics.

«We can see it clearly wasn't just a fluke, we could see they were in the same locations, which we never would have expected for that length of time and at that time of year,» Hull said.

For all the excitement, it is still quite possible that any preliminary whiff of the Higgs will later turn out to be a statistical fluke.

It also ended up with $ 210 million for research into breast cancer as a result of a legislative fluke.

There's Toxoplasma gondii, which drives mice to seek out cats eager to eat them, and the liver fluke Dicrocoelium dendriticum, which motivates ants to climb blades of grass, exposing them to cows and sheep hungry for a snack.

A makes a great advert for sweet potatoes and purple potatoes but is based on a fluke of evidence... And can only be suported by assuming that the human fram has a fragile constitution when it comes to the it's homeostasis.

Some said it could just be a «statistical fluke» and pointed out that none of the women who took Tamoxifen for one to four years developed a new tumor.