Sentences with phrase «rather than luck»

Based on skill rather than luck, GWENT gives you command of highly customizable armies, and encourages use of strategy and deception to defeat opponents.

He listed some of the factors for the increase, including increased public awareness of claims, a general societal tendency to regard physical security as an entitlement rather than luck, and judicial expansion of the scope of duty of care.

If you assume the simple model result comes from skill rather than luck then it would suggest GMT is almost exclusively governed by thermodynamics.

According to the developer, Gwent is «based on skill rather than luck» and will require the clever mastery of strategy and deception if you want to defeat your opponents.

Another change comes in relation to Heroes, with each of these now unlocked through skill rather than the luck of a pickup find out in the battlefield.

In the speech, which was translated into the article, Buffett told a story that would remove any doubt that value investors outperformance should be attributed to skill rather than luck.

Persistent success is strong evidence of skill rather than luck generating a given set of results.

It's only human nature to attribute good results to our own skill rather than luck.

The Toronto - based shop behind a mobile smash is relying on strategy rather than luck to induce lightning to strike a second time

Like the core series, guards typically follow the same pattern unless they're interrupted, making infiltration a matter of skill rather than luck.

There could be a case to argue if incorrect refereeing decisions kept going against you (as they did with West Ham last season) that you have been the victim of misfortune; but if it is simply your players not being able to do there job effectively (e.g. by converting goal - scoring opportunities) then this is a reflection of ability or coaching rather than luck.

Wenger and his crown of AKB's seem to think that finishing second last season was a good well deserved result rather than a luck occurance for a team who really deserved to finish fourth or even lower.

In the speech, which was translated into the article, Buffett told a story that would remove any doubt that value investors outperformance should be attributed to skill rather than luck.

When you are considering consistent future performance, it is much easier for someone to replicate skill rather than luck.

For instance, investors are known to attribute skill rather than luck to an analyst that picks a winning stock.

DraftKings and other daily fantasy sites, including FanDuel, are able to charge money to enter contests and skirt online gambling laws because they're considered games of skill rather than luck.

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In fact, I found myself using the word «luck» more often, simply because I would rather dumb, meaningless luck be the cause of such injustice than God.

If you look at marriage as what I can get, rather than what can I give, and what can we do together, good luck, you will need it.

At table she has them all join hands for grace, and Frank, uneasily grabbing Wade's and Cade's, can't help thinking «what strange good luck to be reckoned among these people» rather than «cruising some mall for an Easter takeout... lost in the savage wilderness of life.»

So it was the good luck of each president to sin into the moral relativism of his era rather than into its puritanism.

I'd rather it be luck than an act of God, because if it were an act of God, then God would be cruel and unfair.

But rather sooner than later Good luck with gymnatics!

We're combining celebrations with different parts of the family to have more of a pot - luck celebration rather than one person hosting!

By luck — rather than expert planning — we happened to find ourselves near the Pantheon around lunchtime.

I'm undecided if it was due to bad luck or poor finishing that the ball flew wide or over, rather than in the net when it looked as if we couldn't miss.

The point is we can't play that game, we never have been able to in all the years I have been watching, if we do pull it off it is by luck rather than judgement.

I do understand that in the overwhelming majority of cases, injuries are a product of luck rather than some mythical ability to stay healthy... but when you're getting up there in age and you've missed decent chunks of time for 3 years in a row, it's hard to not be concerned.

In the long term, Liverpool will be hoping that Sturridge's injury problems are just bad luck rather than any hereditary, as the striker fears.

With any luck Avram Grant will stick with the south coast club and they can attempt to bounce back into the top tier rather than sink further downhill.

Let's try and focus on making ourselves stronger rather than hoping our rivals have bad luck so we can beat them.

There's little doubting the success of Luck and RGIII, but fans of the Dolphins, Browns and even Broncos have to wonder if they'd rather have selected Wilson than Tannehill, Weeden or Osweiler.

excuses aside, who did not know that arsenal were just participants rather than competitors in any of this competitions??? let us not pretend that we are surprised about all that has happened because it has been happening for the last decade including poor decisions of the ref -LCB- do not know whether it is bad luck] the last transfer window will haunt us dearly going forward... most pple here were taking a swipe at manure for buying martial and using it to justify our inactivity!!!

If this season has taught Arsene Wenger anything then I hope it is that he should expect and plan for having players out of action rather than cursing his luck every single bloody season.

I prefer to see a losing team that is willing to improve, confident and creative, rather than a winning team with controversies and luck.

And I would say that we can, as long as our luck improves, because I think it has been bad luck rather than poor performances that has been hurting us away from home.

Well, we have even started to have a bit of luck and it is our rivals rather than us being hit with injury problems to key players.

Just because you manage to get home safely on bald tyres doesn't mean you're a fantastic driver, it means you have an element of luck on your side, which was clearly the case in keeping Santi on, after his final warning, rather than replacing him with Xhaka.

Sometimes, inserad of blaming someone, you just have to accept bad luck rather than having a scapegoat all of the time.

Others argued that the Colts were paying Luck for his potential rather than his current production.

Honestly we need some luck going our way but worse case scenario we don't win it, then rather Leicester than the Spuds any day.

Paddy Lowe has been promoted from the boardroom to invigorate the side, but with new signings like Sergey Sirotkin, the team are pushing their luck running at a surplus rather than going in for experienced playmakers.

This may motivate both teams to end the game in 90 minutes rather than risk the luck associated with penalty kicks.

I'd just be hoping the game is over sooner rather than later, so that we can live with another humiliation, which at Arsenal is treated like bad luck and special circumstances.

They would rather Moor carry it to the edge of the box and try his luck than let anyone else have the ball around there.

His failure to get a goal or an assist is a combination of bad luck and poor finishing from his team - mates, rather than his own underperformance.

Well, for starters, when we pull back those offensive statistics, some troubling trends arise; trends that might suggest Roma's luck may run out sooner rather than later.

Rafael shone in Neville's old spot for a while before being drummed out by Louis van Gaal who then — by luck rather than judgement — pushed Valencia in the role.

The oil rich countries who have gained wealth through the luck of geology rather than centuries of industrial development are amongst the worst culprits.

They've had to endure some dire periods of form while the club also waved goodbye to a manager which has kept them in the Premiership for the past two season in Gary Megson, although Megson's departure was met with celebration rather than congratulations and Good Luck.

Campaigns often have better luck hijacking an existing story rather than trying to uncover the un-covered, so think about ways you can hang your coat on an existing news peg.