Sentence examples for combined luck from inspiring English sources

Michael L. Katzev, an archaeologist who combined luck, scholarship and eight years of meticulous toil to raise, preserve and interpret one of the oldest and most intact seagoing cargo vessels ever discovered, died on Sept. 8 at his home in Southport, Me.

In the case of Pixar, though, he has displayed only foresight, combined with luck.

But he also recognises that "people are not buying our stock because of the US, they are buying it because of China".Good ole Uncle SamIn China, Yum! has combined the luck and skill needed to be in the right place at the right time.

Blackburn created countless opportunities - particularly in the second half - but the visitors combined good luck with quality defending to ensure they have now lost just once in five games.

Confessing his love for games combining both luck and skill, Magic creator Richard Garfield admitted its influence in his design of Magic.

For that, you need a lot of luck, combined with a good deal of work.

The message seems to be: if the Somalian pirates don't get you, sheer dumb luck, combined with hostile wind and rain, will.

Then a young hero named Will, through a great deal of luck combined with an innate skepticism, figures out what's coming and flees before being capped.

"How I got to Yale was pure luck, combined with lots of people helping me," Lorem told me as we sat in a book-lined study on the Yale campus.

Brown is most successful when he's describing his work as an astronomer, revealing the way planning and luck combined in his discovery of at least three big objects orbiting our sun.

At the time, Christel was the more effective operative; then inept bureaucratic karma and plain good luck combined to elevate Guillaume from his cover as a loyal Social Democratic Party official in Frankfurt to a junior position in Brandt's office in Bonn.