Sentence examples for tempting providence from inspiring English sources

Tempting providence?

Talk about tempting providence.

Tempting providence, the Rome daily, Il Messaggero, was already certain Italy would win in the final.

Mr. Artschwager said that when he received Mr. Antonakos's 1974 proposal, he was inclined to think it might be tempting providence.

We went down, tempting providence, to the bottom-most levels, and inscribed our names and addresses on the stone walls with fragments of charcoal that we found strewn about.

Everything now depends on Icarus II, a name that rather tempts providence.

His soaring popularity and confidence may tempt Mr Uribe to see himself as man of destiny, selected by providence to inflict a final defeat on the guerrillas of right and left, uproot the narco-traffickers and turn Colombia into a fully fledged democracy.

It's divine providence".

"We depend on divine providence.

Mr. Fatah, 45, blamed providence.

Late that summer, providence intervened.