Sentences with phrase «than the luck of»

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.

Two players could stand side by side and hit the attack button simultaneously but it seemed like nothing more than luck of the draw as to which one of the players were actually hit.

Not exact matches

This is better than wishing her luck because suggesting that she has the skills needed to succeed provides a huge boost of confidence.

The run of luck was so good that gaming - industry folks started to believe Vegas was invincible, thanks to a steady flow of high - and low - rolling suckers who left behind more money than secrets when flying home.

If your down - on - her - luck pal has been sleeping on your sofa for the past year and earned less than $ 4,050 while you've been mostly supporting her (or him), then you may be able to claim the sponger — er, friend — as a dependent and deduct up to $ 4,050 on your federal return, even though the two of you are not related at all.

If you implement these tactics and practice these techniques, you will be connected to the flow of life and you will find more «luck» than you ever have before.

Sometimes those things that go wrong are outside the control of the wealthy (i.e. random bad luck) but more often than not they are things that are completely within their control.

Well, best of luck: «We made a bunch of investments in companies that didn't have a product, some worked, but more often than not those are our least performing,» Wilson says.

If you want to fit in to that Calgary neighbourhood it helps if you're married, voted conservative, earn more than a half million annually and have a taste for champagne — the denizens there drink more than twice as much bubbly than the national average (no doubt toasting their good luck to be part of the oil patch).

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.

Research shows that happiness has positive effects on our brains, and it's certainly a pleasant turn of luck to be born with a sunny disposition, but according to science if you weren't so fortunate and naturally tend towards pessimism, trying to remake yourself into more of an optimist is probably doing more harm than good.

Less than one year since declaring it the «Age of the Unicorns,» Fortune Magazine was back with a dire warning, «Silicon Valley's $ 585 Billion Problem: Good Luck Getting Out.»

After making more than $ 131,000 a year for singles, you are shit out of luck!

People retire on little more than luck and a prayer and are forced back into the workforce by the cold, biting wind of economic reality.

We believe that Low / No Moat companies are so subject to the competitive nature of the markets in which they operate that their future is far more governed by luck than by conditions within their control.

For some, that may turn out to be true, but such success stories are more a result of good luck than a sound retirement strategy.

If you want something that costs more than a hundred dollars, then you're out of luck.

«I hope the Brits have better luck than Canadians in convincing Mark Carney to address concerns raised about the absence of women from that nation's bank notes,» said author and historian Merna Forster, one of the Canadian activists.

Maybe you'll have better luck than the complete failures of the current field of ID luminaries.

They lucked out, had bigger guns than the Indians, and pillaged their way across one of the most naturally prosperous landmasses on the planet.

I picture my mother years and years ago — younger than I am now by ten years at least — sitting in the corner of the couch, her first real bible in her lap, underlining practically the entire book of John with tears in her eyes, like she can't believe her luck.

Then he doesn't love us that much he just leaves it to luck like if the child is born in a good family christan family then chances are very high that he will go to heaven but to a bad family and also god knows better than me that if he destroyed satun and did whatever i mentioned in my commented the world would have been a outstanding place to live in if god can send his son to suffer then why not destroy satun or give him life sentence in hell or even better why din't he paid attention while making Adam and Eve and even if he din't why din't he renoved the tree of knowlage from the garden of Eden then he woundn't have to tell Adam and Eve not to eat any fruit from that tree

And although the market crash was more a symptom than a cause of the crisis, the church had been complicit in the speculative frenzy that precipitated the crash: «The people who were gambling most recklessly sat in its pews, and never felt the slightest incongruity between their presence at worship on Sunday and their luck in the profit - chase during the rest of the week» (November 25, 1931).

if any of these things going on in my life actually help take me somewhere and help me to become a self supporting, productive person, I guess I'd have to say it was more luck and sheer will power more than anything?

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.

I'd like to think we did it because we didn't want to press our luck anymore, because repairs cost more than the Blue Book said you were worth, because you didn't have anti-lock brakes or passenger - side airbags, because we really couldn't have you breaking down on a late - night drive home from the airport or on a busy interstate, because of fuel economy and our deepening concern over climate change.

Because it sounds more spiritual than «luck»... and because describing such things as «potential curses because of their tendency to be idolized» makes me sound (and feel) ungrateful.

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 hopefully someone else will benefit... I have had good luck in almost all cases replacing almond flour with: 1/2 tapioca flour (a bit more than half) 1/2 coconut flour (a bit less than half) 2 extra eggs per 1 cup of flour

I personally had better luck with the food processor, and it is much easier to get the dough out of the food processor container than the the tapered Vitamix container and from around the blades.

I was, however, devastated when I realized that I'd left my champurrado recipe tucked into the restaurant's copy of Dulce, probably to be found by my successor (who I pray had better luck implementing interesting recipes than I did).

i think making money off of a blog at this point probably requires a lot of luck but also more than a full - time job's - worth of effort, honestly.

And what perfect timing: With the start of a new year bright with possibilities and resolutions for good luck, good health, and prosperity, there is no better symbol than the almond.

Woke up with more than enough time to prepare this «good luck» dish as part of our meal...

I've had better luck with almond flour recipes, but I much prefer the taste of coconut flour to almond flour, and it fills me much more quickly (and for longer) than almond flour.

I have had much better luck with gelatin than with pectin, but try adjusting the quantity of pectin first.

Those with mild sensitivities to gluten may have luck eating this ancient grain as berries or ground into flour because it contains a different genome of gluten than modern wheat, and it has not been much changed by selective breeding over the millennia (note: spelt is not genetically engineered — a completely different process from selective breeding).

In the middle of the country so much is shipped frozen and defrosted you'll have better luck doing that at home just before you're ready to use it (most seafood defrosts fast under cold running water) than buying the stuff that who knows when it was pulled from the freezer.»

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

Giroud misses more than he hits, Walcott has NEVER delivered his expected talent, Welbeck will NEVER be the striker to score 20 goals a season Coqellin will NOT go a whole season injury or suspension free, Sanchez and Ozil WILL have down period during the season, all teams have these problems to a greater or lesser degree but most of the top teams will address these problems and players either inprove or are sold and replaced with better or at least more consistant players, NOT Wenger he keeps doing the same thing over and over with the same players and he expects a different result but gets the same outvome time and time again, yet its ALWAYS someone else's fault be it the Ref or the linesman or the opposition or bad luck or whatever and whoever and its NEVER the fact that HE has done nothing to change the situation and LOOKS LIKELY to not change it next time around.

AKB's just never run out of excuses, it isn't «bad luck» when we are first on the injury ladder (by a country mile as well) EVERY SEASON, the last time i remember having a reasonable injury list was before diaby was injury prone, so whether it's down to his tactics, players diets or imcompetent staff, a 2.5 star manager wouldn't have taken more than 2 - 3 seasons to fix these problems, players join our club with amazingly good injury records (ozil) and become injry prone, players leave our club (fabregas) and are fit 2x as much as they were for us, SOMETHING IS WRONG AT ARSENAL

Good luck is a hell of a lot better than bad luck.

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.

Bill Popfinger needed more than a little bit of luck to drive Happy Escort to a win in the Little Brown Jug.

The problem with turnovers is that they tend to come in bunches, sometimes the result of luck more than will.

It was much tougher than most of us expected and I have to say that Palace were really unlucky but we earned our luck by simply refusing to wilt in the face of huge pressure.

They have had no history of developing WRs so they may be more comfortable going with vet stop gaps than trying their luck on drafting WRs.

There seems to be plenty of hitting (although a couple regulars have struggled), the SPs other than Cole have been quite good, and... and the bullpen has been a bonfire, mostly bad DIPS luck, it seems.