Sentence examples for luck to take from inspiring English sources

There is a limited window of opportunity for Mr. Santorum, but he needs considerable luck to take advantage of it.

The Royals remained the more dangerous team, but they needed a hint of luck to take the lead for the first time with Knight-Percival nodding a cross into his own net.

South Korea had been marginally the more inventive side, although they needed a significant amount of luck to take the lead as the edgy Akinfeev gifted them the opening goal.

Carter went 4-2 in front which included a 101 break, Murphy pulled a frame back but Carter won the last frame of the session with another stroke of luck to take a 5-3 advantage.

Sailors and fisherman would likewise discard a crust to appease the spirits of dead mariners, though fishermen believed that it was bad luck to take a pasty aboard ship.

Instead, it concerned Kenneth Littleton, the private tutor who had been hired to assist the seven Skakel children; he had the bad luck to have taken up his new job on the day of the murder.

"There is no foreign official today who has better relations with Hillary Clinton than Cathy Ashton," says another diplomat.Lady Ashton also has the bad luck to have taken over just when the EU was losing one of its most powerful weapons: the lure of membership to encourage reform.

Barack Obama's bad luck was to take office just as the worst after-effects of the economic recession hit.

It wants the federal government either to relieve it of a large hunk of its debt (euro35 billion of it, with luck) or to take over the whole of its interest payments.

Each time her luck seems to take a turn for the better, she is beset by another misfortune until eventually, through a magical stroke of luck, she gains the hand of a prince, in town to collect his laundry.

This leads founders to chalk up success to luck, but to take all the blame for any failures.