Sentence examples for skill luck from inspiring English sources

Was this by skill, luck or sheer determination?

Skill, luck, strategy, panache and a knack for banter and bravado all are essential, but great physical prowess is not.

We escaped the Cold War without a nuclear holocaust by some combination of skill, luck, and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion".

"We escaped the cold war without a nuclear holocaust by some combination of skill, luck and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion," said General George Lee Butler of the US strategic air command.

Twenty years ago, he wrote that we had so far survived the NWE "by some combination of skill, luck, and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion".

"We escaped the Cold War without a nuclear holocaust by some combination of skill, luck, and divine intervention, and I suspect the latter in greatest proportion". The SIOP called for the destruction of twelve thousand targets within the Soviet Union.

A number of games fall in between poker and roulette on the skill-luck spectrum: craps and blackjack, for instance, both involve measures of skill in betting and weighing comparative probabilities.

Both George Bush (the Republican) and Michael Dukakis (the Democrat), through a combination of superior resources, long-planned campaigns, skill & luck (& also the failings of their opponents), had their nominations in hand earlier than any nonincumbents since the modern system of nominating candidates began.

We also had skill and luck and great coaching.

It carefully balances skill and luck and risk and reward.

Winning is a mix of skill and luck.