Perhaps at some future date it will be seen as a stroke of particular bad luck for the planet that the Eastern United States was one of the few parts of the world that wasn't unnaturally hot in 2014 — the site of "a temperature anomaly," as NASA put it.
Due to the relative shifting of the data (via t tCD) we systematically identify two matches where the teams just had particular bad luck.
If you're part of that particular peloton: good luck.
On this particular day, with luck and perseverance, I found a cab.
Instead I handed them to the thankful owner, who said while walking away to no one in particular, "Just my luck, I had to chase the only geezer in the park who runs like a 30-year-old".
In another story, she has a character pointedly say of the hero: "Everybody's only got a particular ration of luck, and to be perfectly honest, I think it might pretty much have run out in his case".
Far from being secure in her privilege, a typical Brazil hero is only at school because of some particular bit of luck: perhaps her sister already teaches at the school so she gets a bursary, or her uncle has agreed to pay the fees, or the number on her scholarship exam paper is mixed up with someone else's.
One reason why the morality system places great weight on the importance of voluntariness is that it aspires to show that morality — and moral responsibility in particular — somehow "transcends luck" (Williams, 1985: 195).
Thanks in particular, and good luck, to Adam.
"Chara," he said, the local word for a particular form of bad luck, elsewhere known as shrapnel.
