Sentence examples for twist of timing from inspiring English sources

It is hard to imagine a stranger twist of timing: a week today, the Bosnian team, half of whom grew up as refugees far-flung by war, play their opening game in the high temple of football – the Maracanã stadium, Rio de Janeiro – against mighty Argentina, the former world champions.

EUGENE, Ore .— Twenty years and some 2,000 miles removed from the most memorable duel (and startling stumble) in United States decathlon history, a serendipitous twist of timing appeared to have left the sport on the cusp of another American renaissance.

In a twist of timing, an American Web-hosting company recently shut down the Web site of Mehdi Karroubi, an opposition leader who has been under house arrest since February 2011, to comply with United States sanctions that block hosting any site with the domain.ir, for Iran, Reuters reported Monday.

In a twist of bad timing, she moved into her townhouse — bought out of foreclosure — just five days before receiving her layoff notice.

And in a twist of spectacularly bad timing, my future in-laws visited that night.

They worked on takeoff, twisting mechanics and twist timing.

Twist of fate or divine timing, the loss of the two famous entertainers left Hollywood and fans stunned and heartbroken.

Allowing (as any reasonable person would) that "success is extremely difficult to achieve without hard work," Frank suggests that we are all nonetheless at the mercy of accidents of timing and twists of fate.

In a twist of dumb luck and good timing, I had nothing too juicy to hide on either.

Black, the author of three books on international affairs, cites twists of fate and timing that might explain the Shepaug's failure to continue in that direction even as Waterbury, over on the Naugatuck, became the brass capital of the world.

Through a twist of fate and a bit of good timing, the company made it into Y Combinator's Winter 2013 class just as the FAA was opening up U.S. airspace to commercial drones.