Sentence examples for brute luck from inspiring English sources

Or, some might say, just brute luck.

This is brute luck in action.

Yet does paring things back to brute luck represent the ultimate iteration of Simon's TV philosophy?

The brute luck of birth thus becomes essential to future housing wealth.

By insisting that we consider public policy from the perspective of the most-advantaged, the veil of opulence obscures the vagaries of brute luck.

Indeed, sheer brute luck is so thoroughly intermixed with the contributions one makes to one's own success (or failure) that it is ultimately impossible to distinguish what a person is responsible for from what he is not.

Objections to all versions of "brute-luck egalitarianism" come from two sides.

Then there's death by brute bad luck unrelated to stag-do activity: undiagnosed heart conditions, or blood clots.

British executives have had the brute good luck to be in post in a period when profits as a share of GDP are rising, unions are weak and an "arms race" of executive pay has developed, propelled by ever more grandiose giveaways of shares justified by attempts to incentivise "performance".

The brute bad luck of a person with a disability is to find herself in a disabling environment (Fine and Asch, 1988).[10] For example, much of the bad luck in lacking the ability to walk is in living in a built environment designed for people who do, rather than people who move around in wheelchairs.

On those versions, only some disabilities generate justice claims – those that resulted from brute bad luck – whereas others, which may involve the same or greater disadvantage, do not, simply because they resulted from a free choice (e.g., reckless pastimes or an unhealthy lifestyle).