Sentences with phrase «of some fluke of»
«It's one of those flukes of venom.»
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A Jefferies analyst said this bookings miss was a «fluke» and not a sign of fundamental problems, and that any pullback in the stock should be seen as a buying opportunity.
Dollar Shave Club's subsequent $ 1 billion sale to Unilever was no fluke: Science helped steer that ship, but the earlier viral advertising success of Dollar Shave Club demonstrated the cultural cohesion between the companies.
It was just luck or a fluke that had led me to this global stage to address some of my idols of global entrepreneurship.
«If I foul up now, they'll say «Easy Rider» was a fluke,» Hopper said on the set of the movie.
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.
One exit could be a fluke, but two out of seven felt like something worth looking at to investors.
How the idea got started that only 18 holes qualifies as a full round of golf is a bit of a fluke anyway.
«This out - of - sample persistence indicates that the effect is enduring and not a statistical fluke,» the authors conclude.
«A big part of what's kept us hungry is feeling like we deserve to show the world that we can get back there — that it wasn't just a fluke, that it was taken away and that we will get back to that point.»
It's the movie that pretty much proved Bay was no box - office fluke and also gave us that Aerosmith song that we still can't get out of our heads.
This became the subject of much debate, but now it's probably safe to say that bitcoin's rise isn't necessarily a fluke.
Important to note first of all is that this is not a fluke.
But we'll focus most of this report on the implications, specifically: Not a fluke: Correlation lower at all levels The sharp drop in cross-asset correlation is not a fluke.
But, after seeing the same 50 % increase in selling price over and over again, I came to appreciate that it was not a fluke, but something that can happen, and should happen, most of the time when companies are sold.
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.
Since cryptocurrency is not zodiacally ostensible as payment, this requires anticipating a trade counterparty, in essence, anticipating a fluke of wants.
It would be like laughing at an archeologist because he had the gual to suggest the pyramids were actually designed and not just some random fluke of time and matter.
So perhaps 2008 is a strange fluke of a year, that's terrible.
Covering contraception in cases like that which Fluke testified about, ie the ovarian cyst case where contraception was truly a medically necessary thing, would not bring down the economy and might even result in net savings, assuming that the cost of removing the ovary WAS covered, as one would hope it was.
sandra, i say fluke you and the rest of the demon crats.
HotAirAce, understand that once Ms. Fluke decided to voluteer in front of the Pro-Abortion Catholic Nancy Pelosi and her «committee» she became a «Public Figure».
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.
Perhaps Rush Limbaugh went way to far... calling names of human beings not just Ms Fluke.
The challenge that atheists face is two-fold; If it is true that we, and everything else in the universe is some kind of cosmic fluke then there is no right or wrong, no immoral or moral.
Sandra Fluke, the student who was at the center of a firestorm over contraception rules at her religious university, applauded the decision, saying in a statement, «I am very pleased that under these policies all women, regardless of what school they attend or where they work, will soon have affordable access to contraception.»
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».
Not to make light of Ms. Fluke's unfortunate situation, but, this should also serve as a wake up call that there are some people out there that actually think Rush is a legitimate commentator.
Both Fluke and DeGioia, however, focused on this battle as a moment in the rapid degradation of our common life.
Upon his fluke of an elction, he called 7 historians to a dinner at the whitehouse on how they would write books and portray him.
That this creative process produced human beings is not a fluke but somehow in accord with the deepest structure of how things are.
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.
DeGioia has weighed in on recent campus political controversies, defending the decision to invite Sebelius - saying «we are a university, committed to the free exchange of ideas» - and defending Fluke against attacks from Limbaugh, which the college president described as «as misogynistic, vitriolic, and a misrepresentation of the position of our student.»
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.
I've seen amazing things in life, things that religious people would call a miracle and that scientific people would call a fluke of nature.
Not even most of his sponsors pulling their funding could convince the Fat@ss to apologize, as we saw during the Sandra Fluke incident.
Prove, once and for all, that you're a true master of the grill and what happened last year was just a fluke?
i think not, i think we are a cosmic fluke, one like that of the wheel of numbers — i'm sure there is life on other planets but we are as flukish as them.
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.
At this point, what is dragging Limbaugh down is not so much his incendiary attack on Fluke but his refusal to admit that, like the rest of us, he is a sinner, too.
On Wednesday, Rush Limbaugh blasted Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified before Congress in favor of contraceptive coverage in health plans, as a «slut» and a «prostitute.»
Greed can only be committed by companies, not by upstanding ladies like Sandra Fluke who need thousands in aide from the rest of us to buy contraception.
(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.»
Of course their is a planned parent hood, Wallmart or Target nearby or a short drive, Fluke was so dumb she did not know their was Planned hood 2 blocks from her school or she could get $ 9 birth control pills from Target -
That thalidomide was not approved for sale in the United States was more of a bureaucratic fluke than anything else.
But the exalted ** Sandra Fluke» is QUOTED in this article: «I am very pleased that under these policies all women, regardless of what school they attend or where they work, will soon have AFFORDABLE access to contraception.»
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.»
Of course, I had to make it again using proper methods and measurements just to make sure it wasn't a fluke... and also because I'd polished off the first batch.