Sentences with phrase «stumble upon a promise»

Recently, Duke University biochemists working with mice stumbled upon a promising treatment.

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Save money on area's we can and spend where we need to, time to see some of our promising youngsters step up and for Wenger to «stumble» upon another gem.

With hindsight, it's clear that the «cold fusion» a pair of electrochemists thought they had stumbled upon 20 years ago will not deliver the energy miracle it promised, but the affair reminds us that chemistry retains the ability to surprise (see «Interview: Fusion is a...

Since tulle skirts are so beautiful I decided to order one from a high end retailer and while I was looking for something else online I stumbled upon a similar skirt from Amazon, the pictures didn't look very promising but I decided to give it a try.

So, when a fancy - pants beauty device promised to target and tone our tricky areas, we wondered if we'd just stumbled upon the fountain of youth.

When Henry stumbles upon a frontier homemaker (Emily Cass McDonnell) whose husband is away at war, it appears that the film is making a promising foray into more personal, Grand Illusion terrain.

Seth Rogen, who also co-wrote the screenplay, voices Frank, a hotdog who inadvertently stumbles upon the truth about «the great beyond» and the «gods» who pluck them from the shelves and wheel them to what they had hitherto believed was a promised land.

Unwilling to make the love of his life watch him dying, he leaves her and stumbles upon a secret program with the promise to cure his state of hopeless degradation.

Throw in Captain Kirk and the promise of smart sci - fi and Z for Zachariah - a post-apocalyptic vision about a lone young woman and the sexual politics that emerge when two male survivors stumble upon her — is rightfully one of Sundance's hottest tickets.

When I started writing A Promise of Fire over five years ago now, there was a good chance this manuscript would end up like my other works of fiction: perhaps unfinished, never seen by anyone but me, definitely never presented to agents or editors and using up space on my hard drive in a folder with a misleading enough name that hopefully no one would ever open it and stumble upon my first (and sometimes hilarious) attempts at writing a novel.

Some aim to stumble upon an investment that provides a 1,000 - to - 1 return, or find an investing course or guru that promises instant riches.

This is because the game promises a strong PvP element and, while you can be sure of stumbling upon a friendly player from time to time, there is the ever present risk of real players wanting to gun you down in the forest and make off with all your instant spaghetti.