Sentence examples for lottery element from inspiring English sources

That is the lottery element of our legal system.

Which is just another illustration of how top executive pay retains a huge lottery element, even when remuneration consultants think they're being scientific and linking pay to performance.

An element of lottery may be used, though he's not sure.

A second element of all lotteries is the drawing, a procedure for determining the winning numbers or symbols.

With an overall investment of £55m - including lottery funding - the London 2012 element of the festival began on 21 June and closes on 9 September at the end of the Paralympic Games.

A third element common to all lotteries is the existence of a mechanism for collecting and pooling all the money placed as stakes.

The basic elements of lotteries are usually quite simple.

What worries solicitor Greg Stewart, who was acting for another defendant in Conteh's trial, is that joint enterprise "covers such wide elements of behaviour and intent that it becomes a lottery if you are convicted or not".

This will seek to end the current postcode lottery that has seen some older people wrongly denied NHS funding for the nursing element of their care.

It is perhaps the subjective element that has rankled so many Americans about the Florida vote-count lottery, Professor Frankel said.

To some, the element of chance behind "Live at 35" might be like playing the lottery; for others, it may seem like Russian roulette.