Sentence examples for control chance from inspiring English sources

The pathological gambler attempts to control chance by linking together independent events.

The illusion of control, common on the casino floor, is the tendency to believe that through skill or effort we can control chance outcomes that in fact we cannot possibly control.

There stood Lisa, attempting to control Chance's excitement at being at my door.

A negative correlation was found between LSI-A and impaired ADL, locus of control chance, and a higher number of symptoms and depressive symptoms, in contrast to a positive correlation for locus of control internal and power (Table 4).

Furthermore, reductions in diabetes-specific locus of control chance domain scores suggest that ISM patients were less likely than AC patients to attribute diabetes control to chance or fortune.

The recruitment questionnaire (A1) included a section on socio-demographic and lifestyle factors (such as, educational level, employment status, parity and smoking) and the multi-dimensional health locus of control scale (MHLCS), which measures three dimensions of health locus of control (chance, internal and powerful others; Wallston et al, 1978).

Here they have the better part of an act to themselves — sneering, taunting and threatening an increasingly out-of-control Chance and, in the case of Boss Finley, making racist religious proclamations from the podium.

He pioneered serialism in music, embarked on open-ended and improvisatory music, and experimented with what he called "controlled chance", in which performers were offered choices about what to perform in music Boulez had written.

The foundation recognized Mr. Boulez for his contributions to the musical field of serialism, and for his "controlled chance" compositions and his work as director of the Institute for Research and Coordination Acoustic/Music at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

His controlled-chance compositions are as bold as his titles, and, as one of the few blacks to gain recognition in the downtown avant-garde music scene (he moved to Manhattan in 1976), Eastman talked about race in his work at a time when many other composers were dealing with pure sound and repetition.

The Ministry of Health has already developed plans to sustain the elimination status by maintaining high protection levels against tetanus in mothers and newborns and controlling chances of contracting tetanus during and after delivery and birth.