Perhaps the best way of deploying the insight that there is something special about luck and constitution is not to say that it is meaningless to discuss it, but to say that constitutive moral luck is simply unproblematic for morality in the way that resultant moral luck is.
Harbaugh, a quarterback who starred for the Wolverines before playing 15 seasons in the N.F.L., has a special affinity for Luck, whom he described as "the straw that stirs the drink around here".
President Carter had been briefed, and sent Mendez a special note: "Good luck" - though it is highly unusual for a president to be in direct contact with CIA agents, Mendez says.
Like my Catholic friend who invokes a special saint for luck in finding parking, Shiites are also on intimate terms with their saints, holding feast days as commemoration, and making pilgrimages to Shiite shrines in cities like Damascus, Najaf and Masshad.
The confluence of three factors -- (1) a massive financial commitment required -- $35.4 million in 2012 alone, (2) an uncertain neck condition involving regeneration of nerves (this is not a shoulder or knee injury), and (3) a special player in Luck, available for half the price at the same position -- all conspire towards a parting of ways.
The problem is that the Nets, through a rash of signings, injuries and their own special brand of excruciating luck, may be in no position to take advantage of it.
The Broncos' special teams had more luck on kickoff returns.
When it came to the penalty, it was not a special save, a bit of luck, a right guess".
"There's probably someone sitting in Russia who is saying, 'Good luck,' " an American Special Forces soldier joked.
She has tried to push it through in no fewer than four special legislative sessions, with no luck.
