Sentence examples for sort of lottery from inspiring English sources
If a seminar is oversubscribed, we will have to go through some sort of lottery / selection process.
As the food world expands, it beckons the kinds of dreamers that Hollywood and Broadway and Nashville always have, promising them a sort of lottery in which pluck, luck, looks and poise are as pivotal as anything else.
But his character makes a conscious choice and sacrifice in the interest of a collective purpose; Jennie is the beneficiary and victim of a cosmic accident (albeit one that the script explains scientifically), winning a sort of lottery for a long-sought miracle that turns out to be a poisoned prize.
In 1729, the French government staged a sort of lottery to help amortize some of the royal debt.
Sure, you can point to examples of people who really got lucky--they chose the right parents and inherited wealth or position or maybe they won some sort of lottery (genetic or actual --but you never wactual --butto rely on pure luck for success.
Harold Wilson, the then shadow chancellor of the exchequer, declared that the scheme was a "squalid raffle", which would entice people away from safer savings accounts to riskier sorts of lotteries in which participants can, and generally do, lose all of their money.But a recent paper* from a group of economists at the University of Sydney suggests that these concerns are misplaced.
Still, the existence of such sharply divergent paths has made young graduates feel like players in some sort of modern lottery.
The clunky detritus of the 1970's and 1980's -- these Monte Carlos, Regals, LeBarons and Bonnevilles -- seem to have won some sort of karmic lottery.
People who did become shared owners felt they had won some sort of arbitrary lottery rather than secured a home they had a right to.
Henschke had a tough childhood; his father, Joe, never worked, and made Charlie and his sister Esther do illegal things for him, like running numbers – a sort of illegal lottery – and took them along while he hustled in bars.
(His brother's diet, interestingly enough, is a fair bit different). Your boss, who seems to have won some sort of genetic lottery, gets to eat plenty of peanut butter, red meat and boutique cheeses.
