Sentences with phrase «of pure luck»

Success is not the result of pure luck, but a matter of understanding simple arithmetic.

It seems to spring up out of nowhere, out of the beautiful chaos of daily life, to form on the easy basis of pure luck and chance — and simultaneously, despite such effortless conception, to require a great deal of attention, intention, and care.

This was basically my entire experience with trying to play the game, every time I booted it up I had some sort of issues forcing me to quit and try again, and just out of pure luck I got in at times, played a few hours only to be disconnected again and I realized that this would be a huge issue if this was the full release and not a beta.

Gambling traders get stuck in a cycle of bad trading habits because they will probably hit a few nice winners here and there just out of pure luck.

Those who do, do so because of pure luck, i.e. with so many players in the game, some are bound to outperform just by random chance.

The government has tried to maintain that the pools and the lottery are different animals; the former a skilled operation, the latter a matter of pure luck.

Roulette, often an example of pure luck, might go into one.

When the directors of the 1959 Pan American Games set about buying a track for installation at Soldier Field in Chicago two years ago they not only found that there were no major track builders, as such, in the country, but that the few good U.S. tracks in existence seemed to be the result of pure luck — the Los Angeles Coliseum, for example, got its ancient but revered brick - dust track, the story goes, because a building was being demolished nearby and a Coliseum official suddenly had the bright idea that the crushed bricks would make a good running surface.

We only have Le Coq out of pure luck, had injuries not forced Arsene's hand he would probably have seen out his loan at Charlton and left in the summer.

It was not a matter of pure luck.

Not exact matches

There are some factors that can increase the potential «virality» of your piece, such as making it long and detailed, adding elements of humor and surprise, and giving it an early push on social media, but it's also a game of timing and pure luck.

But if we do it will be pure, dumb luck, not a consequence of good design or sound regulation.

Apparently, all of our modern technology is the product of pure blind luck given the underlying science is, according to creationists, inherently unreliable...

If their luck is good they may take three or four hogs in a couple of days, as much as they can carry home; and the meat prepared as above described is readily disposed of at ninepence and sometimes a shilling a pound; for when properly done it is a most toothsome morsel, and perfectly clean and wholesome, as the food of these wild hogs consists entirely of roots, berries and fruit, and their drink of the purest water.

If we played well and lost, we would understand that its pure luck, but this abysmal display in front of the home fans, I pitied those that was in that stadium in the cold today, the players owe them an apology.

I hate it when wenger speaks about Coquelin as a strike of guinus, he took credit for something that was pure luck... imagine that Arteta and Flamini weren't injured, then most probabaly Coquelin would be still at Charlton and maybe even offloaded by now...

I believe tgere are 3 titke contenders this year Leicester, city and arsenal About Leicester they are doing great but there football depends on counter attacking and few quick passes to reach the ball to mahrez or vardy i don't think they can impress anybody if they faced teams that park the bus like what the teams do with arsenal and also any injury for mahrez or vardy will ruin there season so i don't consider them a real challenge and in an open game we got the best out of them and beat them with 5 goals to 2 so calm down gooners About city they had very impressing start for the season then they were vety baf winning most games by pure luck or last minute goals and they could be beaten easily Arsenal are the best team form we controled most of the games and the losses and draws were by bad referee decisions or bad luck and the 4 points margain with city could have been easily 10 or 12

Their clocks are ticking and the idea that they should be beholden to the competency of those around them, and, in a greater sense, pure luck and good fortune, always seemed a bit off to me.

The fact that we tried it for a few minutes and scored could be down to all sorts of factors + pure luck.

Please stop mentioning guys like Lewandowski, Reus, Aubameyang, Griezmann etc because Arsene Wenger has no ambition and will never sign the world class players we want even the Ozil and Sanchez signings were pure luck because Real Madrid signed Bale and Barca got Suarez so they got rid of players so as to recoup some transfer money!

That is because fans are now weary and accustomed to our club ALWAYS coming up short, fans are tired of the feeling of groundhog day you get with Arsenal... from the perpetual never ending injury nightmares, to the frustrations of losing games we have no business even drawing, to the inevitable underwhelming transfer dealings etc... if there is anything more frustrating it's fans who think their unbridled and borderline delusional belief in the club is enough to win us things, conveniently forgetting that in life you get what you put in and pure luck cam only take you so far....

of course he in consistently mediocre to the point that his first 7 years at the club is looking like a fluke and pure luck.

We've also had the DM problem for years, which was only solved midway through last season by pure luck of the injuries, NOT because Wenger suddenly had the ability to see he had no balance in his team.

So if arsenal wins by scoring late, its because of pure handwork and determination but if Leicester or any other team does that its pure luck.

Just finding three old friends still living in one's hometown after a 20 - year absence is pure luck in this age of corporate diaspora.

Sometimes pure bad luck and tragedy overtakes almost all of us at times in life.

The emergence of Coquelin was pure luck with out which we would be scraping for 4th again.

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«I shot some photographs of New York City with this glorious sunset, and just by pure luck, presumably, I took this amazing picture that everyone thought was so great.»

I happened upon this blazer on a pure stroke of luck — after regretting not purchasing it when I first saw it, I eventually found it in the «last chance to buy» section of H&M for ten bloody pounds!

We, at Premier Match, have worked with countless career - oriented singles that haven't had the time, the exposure, or the pure luck of meeting their ideal mate.

Truly an unparalleled cinematic feat, in not only scope — but also the pure number of characters and universes — good luck keeping track of it all!

The key to success is a combination of turning techniques and pure luck.

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Is their success the perfect confluence of writing skill, platform savvy, and maybe some pure, dumb luck?

Every writer faces a moment in her career when she realizes that a good part of success has nothing to do with skill or planning, and everything to do with pure, dumb luck.

You can't count on fortune and fame any more than you can count on being at the right place at the right time OR pure, dumb luck, but you CAN count on doing things the right way (quality editing, a solid cover design, etc.) so that you've got a better chance of doors opening for you.

You can draw»em either self - pubbed or traditionally published, and some of that is pure luck.

It's hard to determine if that performance was a matter of skill... or pure, dumb luck.

There are 20,000 + mutual funds, of course there will be funds that beat their index, but over the long term, the number gets smaller and smaller and your ability to select these funds is based on nothing but pure luck!

Throttled quants everywhere were suddenly engaged in a prolonged bout of soul - searching, questioning whether all their brilliant strategies were an illusion, pure luck that happened to work during a period of dramatic growth, economic prosperity, and excessive leverage that lifted everyone's boat.

As we see now that risk was very significant, and just by pure dumb luck, I missed a lot of the pain.

We were thinking the worst for that beagle, but by pure luck, our volunteer got lost trying to find the house and spotted the missing dog wandering along the side of the road.

In the course of writing this post I did find a great example flight which was $ 398, using almost the full Max Effective CB rate, but that was mostly pure luck, and the Jetblue flight would have given a lower effective CB rate as well.

I got very lucky when searching in the Miami area (I fully admit that it was pure luck that I saw this) when I found a number of properties where, with the 15 % discount, the cost of 10,000 IHG Rewards points was just $ 55.25:

Here, the cool air rolls down from the high neighboring mountains and descends its oxygenated, pure air upon all of Ubud and its luck visitors and inhabitants.

It's a pleasingly nuanced system that leads to genuinely tense fights where you really fight like winning came down to either your pure skill or a last - second piece of flukey luck as you gasp for air, a desperate stab having won you the battle.

What this resulted in was an agonizingly long cycle of slowly dragging him back across the board, before inevitably losing a couple of proton streams due to pure bad luck and spending a lot of time simply cleaning slime off of Ghosterbusters, and then repeating the whole process again.

Sometimes it leads to incredibly fun finishes, and other times it leads to rather sad, anti-climatic ones where you steamroll an opponent because of pure dumb luck.

According to him, «the outcome of the roll is 100 % pure luck», even though some have believed that the game controls it by some means.