If anything, the mile-and-a-half race showed that the sport, if not the world, turns on luck and karma.
Things turned on circumstances and luck: I had a client many years ago whom we were doing a residential building for, and he sold the site to another developer who wanted to do a hotel.
If you forgot to leave your desktop machine turned on, you'd probably be out of luck.
Had Riposte's fortunes happened to turn on some apparently random consideration – luck in running, say, or the nod in a photo finish – fate would surely have been shamed into some miniature gesture of remorse for the cruel abbreviation of his life.
Unlike other resorts where the experience turns on good luck and locating a boat and a good dive master (or, at least, someone who speaks English and knows where to get air), Lizard Island provides friendly and knowledgeable dive masters and instructors.
Because Uggla's luck turned on July 5.
Spades turns not on luck but strategy; the winner is usually the player who knows which cards to throw and which cards his partner and rival players need.
The only meritocracy is based on the quality of your publications, which like many things in life is in turn based on luck, timing, and political connections, not necessarily the quality of your work.
10 P.M. (HBO HUNGG Thomas Jane, right with Jane Adams, plays Ray Drecker, a high school sports legend turned down-on-his-luck basketball coach who decides to market his biggest asset: his penis.
How she finds herself in an apartment created by David Netto, a young turk of interior design, is an unlikely story turning on another woman's bad luck, and on a happy accident.
