Sentence examples for subject to luck from inspiring English sources

As Roger Angell, the longtime dean of baseball writers, wrote in regard to a previous Yankee dynasty, having a different team win every year "would breed in me the suspicion that baseball was too capricious, too easy and too much subject to luck or chance for anyone to care about it very long.

She, however, goes beyond the canonical Aristotelian position to maintain that even our ability to reason is subject to luck.

And it appears that on the libertarian view in question, our choices are indeed subject to luck of this sort.

James was an unwanted child, despised by his father, and subject to bad luck.

Nevertheless, his belief is subject to environmental luck in that he is, unbeknownst to him, in barn façade county in which every other barn-shaped object is a barn façade.

Essentially, any patient that utilizes health care at a provider that receives any federal funds will be subject to the luck of the draw in terms of what kinds of reproductive health care they are offered.

Aside from the common courtesy of avoiding poking anyone in the eye, it is a well-known superstition that if you opens an umbrella indoors, you will be subject to bad luck.

It is not in any way subject to serendipity or luck or chance," Romney said.

But Maven, like all of us, is subject to the democratizing luck of the draw, and every so often even I have outplayed him.

The second collaboration between writer-director Ponram and standup Sivakarthikeyan was subject to production delays and worse luck besides: its initial release date coincided with December's Chennai floods, a moment when those cinemas not underwater were serving as makeshift shelters.

Moreover, his belief is not subject to the kind of 'intervening' luck just noted and which is a standard feature of Gettier-style cases.