Sentence examples for luck chance from inspiring English sources

A serendipitous discovery involving a rare cell demands an unusual confluence of luck — chance multiplied by chance.

Matt Bebbington, PE teacher at Wilmslow high school in Cheshire, said: "It's luck, chance and circumstance what a head deems appropriate for their school.

Illness and death frequently intrude upon these stories, and the reader is constantly reminded of the precariousness of life — and the role that luck, chance and reckless, spur-of-the-moment choices can play.

The common yardstick of reason seems to have no use here; Klopp's kids have not risen to the pinnacle of German soccer through luck, chance or exploiting the nature of their rival's demise, but through consistent victories in their toughest tests.

"A lot of luck, chance, and random shit had to occur for me to get into a place that, thirteen years ago, people would have thought I didn't belong," he said toward the end of our meal, as the waiters hurried the china off the table.

Frister attributes so much of his survival to luck, chance and numbing ruthlessness, but there are other moments when the questions he asks are answered by his own calculated, relativized morality, as if he instinctively understood this survival game all along.

"My good-luck chances with judges are through," he said.

An external health locus of control refers to the belief that one's outcome after injury or surgery is under the control of powerful others or is determined by fate, luck, or chance.

Shapero (1975) found that entrepreneurs tended to score at the internal end of Rotter's Internal- External scale, indicating greater belief in the efficacy of their own behaviour, and discarding the influence of external factors such as destiny, luck or chance.

Things could yet break the right way for the European captain both today and in the coming fortnight, but given his recent luck the chances are they will not.

It's really bad luck, but the chances of something else happening are far greater.