Sentence examples for off luck from inspiring English sources

Gar Alperovitz argues that, in reality, the wealthy live off luck, not skill.

Know your god, with out faith you're only banking off luck.

She signed off: "Good luck dumbing down families".

They can also siphon off the luck of strangers merely by possessing photographs of them.

Most vessels held in trust have their capital costs written off, with luck by a rich and generous benefactor.

"Can it be that they want to see the cadaver with four bullets in it?" he said, knocking on a wooden table to ward off bad luck.

WHEN Carlos Menem was sworn in as a senator in 2005, Argentina's then president, Néstor Kirchner, reached out and tapped a wooden dais to ward off bad luck.

Chinese immigrants believed that keeping phlegm in the throat was unhealthy and that spitting could ward off bad luck or ill will.

Like four brothers, and his son important politicians all the president, who has ruled for a decade, takes advice on such matters as when best to step outside, or on which gems or jewellery ward off bad luck.

In 2009, county officials in the western province of Gansu spent $732,000 transporting a 369-ton boulder six miles to the county seat, a move feng shui masters said would ward off bad luck.

Writer recalls that soldiers in ancient Rome, bringing up the rear of a solemn procession, would laugh, sing, and jeer at their general, with the idea that keeping the proceedings from being altogether orderly would ward off bad luck.