Some people think it's bad luck, but it's not bad luck.
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"Obviously yeah, the first reaction of everyone was like, 'Oh bad luck, bad luck,'" said Bencic of being drawn to face Venus Williams.
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Because the number has always been considered bad luck, he says, sailors would get "13" tattooed as an antidote, to keep bad luck away.
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They had the "bad luck" of being born in poverty, they told me, and their victims had the "bad luck" to be in their way.
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"Bad luck would come your way, it would see the number 13, see that bad luck is already there, and it would pass on by," he says.
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Us plant-inept folk just can't seem to stop accidentally murdering our photosynthetic friends, either due to pure obliviousness or a streak of bad luck (it's definitely just bad luck, right?).
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This story doesn't have happy endings -- just bad luck.
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And none of that ... I had very bad luck.
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Justin Bieber is having a recent spate of bad luck.
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Actually, Kelly had a string of truly impressive bad luck.
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But it is bad luck for the shopkeepers of Thane.
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They are the result of bad luck, plain and simple.
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That bad luck was followed by a stroke of fortune.
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"We fought, and by bad luck I won," he said.
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Listen to Charles, he knows all about bad luck. #RememberTheTuckRule
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For some, singlehood is less a choice than bad luck.
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"He's like, 'Damn, I have bad luck,'" Mr. Baez said.
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Along the way, China had a run of bad luck.
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He figured he'd chalk the rupture up to bad luck.
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That's the Argentine word for a jinx, or bad luck.
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Far better to keep believing it was simply bad luck.
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But the Land of Oz was plagued by bad luck.
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In both countries, good and bad luck played a part.
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It was bad luck for Poland, but put Senegal ahead.
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It felt like bad luck even to think of it.
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And in a stroke of colossally bad luck, disaster hit.
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Though rich, Alberta has had a run of bad luck.
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Seven years of bad luck, good things in your past.
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It's funny because ... I think that combination is bad luck.
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Accidents: Three Centuries of Stray Bullets and Bad Luck, enters into
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He had to fight ill health, poor form and bad luck.
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That bad luck has been accompanied by several eminently avoidable blunders.
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But how much of their struggle is due to bad luck?
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Bad luck and a distraction for the experienced French pair. pic.twitter.
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"I've had some bad luck here at Santa Anita," he said.
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He and the country suffered a double dose of bad luck.
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A little bad luck can flip the whole thing upside down.
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Delta's bad luck these past few days isn't an isolated event.
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"There is probably some bad luck involved here too," Feng said.
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But when bad luck strikes, the president's problems become everyone's problems.
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I complained about the bad luck, the unfairness, the client's deception.
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Pamela Hupp appeared to be on a run of bad luck.
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The answer is a combination of bad luck and polar politics.
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Lane says the first few misses just seemed like bad luck.
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These golems of casino mythology are said to possess bad luck.
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In racing, he said, green is thought to be bad luck.
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Although it was believed to be bad luck, nothing terrible happened.
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Migrants say it feels like a cruel twist of bad luck.
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But Jupiter going retrograde doesn't mean that bad luck is ahead, either.
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If it happens in the middle of wedding planning, that's bad luck.
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The Royals are hopeful their run of bad luck is behind them.
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We realize there's bad luck and stuff that wasn't going our way.
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Unfortunately this is just bad luck, the vast majority of the time.
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Certainly, the wrong time of the year to have some bad luck.
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So far everybody who has touched an advantage has had bad luck.
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Thais believe water washes away bad luck and helps usher in prosperity.
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I thought it was bad luck, but it was more than that.
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AROUND THE WEB: FiveThirtyEight looks at the bad luck of Moore, Okla.
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He knew his bad luck on the Sprint Cup circuit would change.
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That is considered bad luck—even with a Khan topping the bill.
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In addition, I also liked ASEXUAL, BAD LUCK, DUE NORTH and GASOHOL.
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Environment, opportunity, economic pressure, a piece of bad luck, a wrong friend.
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In our own world, it continues to be very bad luck indeed.
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But lately Mr. Baka's camp has had a run of bad luck.
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So the bad luck is actually for the cat, not for you.
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It was bad luck, and in the end I ordered a pizza.
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Their labor provides an insurance policy for Henry's bad luck and incompetence.
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We can chalk this up to bad luck more than anything else.
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Plenty of room for injury, exhaustion, wrong distance, bad weather, bad luck.
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In all likelihood, you've suffered from bad luck and made bad choices.
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Bad luck if you were booked for an emergency operation that morning.
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Bad luck and clouds struck again in February 1979, in Goldendale, Wash.
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That's just bad luck and so on that they have been caught.
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Perhaps both might reflect, a little, on nothing more than bad luck.
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Some districts are looking down on families who have had bad luck.
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It's a good idea to be on speaking terms with bad luck.
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To Warren, bankruptcy is fundamentally about bad luck rather than irresponsible behavior.
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Dan Gruchy, of Slow Mo Guys YouTube fame, has apparently managed to wrack up 23 years of mirror-shattering bad luck (yes, we know its not a multiple of seven but he's spent some bad-luck years already).
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But Noe had the bad luck of arriving just after his 16th birthday.
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But bad timing and bad luck drove that shot right into the rough.
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He's run into some bad luck and sometimes that can be extremely frustrating.
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"It could just be really bad luck," said CNN Senior Meteorologist Brandon Miller.
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"I'm very superstitious, but I wouldn't say that it's bad luck," she said.
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"It could just be really bad luck," said CNN senior meteorologist Brandon Miller.
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"I won't talk of bad luck, I don't believe in it," he added.
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Bad luck, it hit the woodwork, but then, sweet Jesus, what a rebound.
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This really invites bad luck so it doesn't feel right to do that.
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"It's been a bit of everything: bad luck; not enough composure," he said.
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Perhaps Houseparty won't have the same mix of bad luck and unfortunate timing.
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And many say it's simply bad luck—that lightning does strike twice sometimes.
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It was considered bad luck just to meet the executioner on the street.
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"That day was a disaster, just really bad luck," said the second banker.
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"It was bad luck, bad timing, but you can't control it," he said.
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The bad luck Pablo brings with him is such a delicious telenovela element.
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Then, it appears, they had the bad luck of running into gold miners.
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Or maybe nobody did anything wrong, and bad luck led to the crash.
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Living With Cancer Like many people, I attribute my cancer to bad luck.
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To build a house from rosewood would bring spirits and bad luck inside.
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How do you distinguish a suspicious anomaly from a run of bad luck?
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"Traditional knowledge associated them with bad luck and dead babies," Dr. Turvey said.
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The slump could result from fewer transformative innovations, for example — essentially bad luck.
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Narrator: People avoid walking under ladders, because it will supposedly bring bad luck.
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It was also surreal, considering the Packers' recent bad luck in the playoffs.
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Journalists hate to complain to their editors about close calls and bad luck.
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Wendy (Michelle Williams), a drifter from Indiana, has a run of bad luck.
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Some religious Hindus consider it bad luck to touch menstruating women and girls.
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He had already had his share of bad luck at the Phoenix Open.
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He thanked his good fortune for what he had berated as bad luck.
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While that request was still pending, Hopovac met with some seriously bad luck.
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If a shoe was upside down, it was an omen of bad luck.
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"The saying that Samsung's good and bad luck is our country's good and bad luck is propaganda manufactured by Samsung and media and politicians beholden to it," said Kim Sang-gyun, 32, who was visiting the same shop as Ms. Park.
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But that bad luck was nothing compared to the program's ongoing off-court problems.
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If the hyenas refuse the sacrifice, people believe the country will have bad luck.
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Mr Santos has also had bad luck, some of which he helped to create.
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I think the sixth, just some bad luck, ultimately their guy was just better.
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"I have bad luck shooting on bikes 🤕," Gordon-Levitt wrote in the caption.
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According to superstition, it's bad luck for a black cat to cross your path.
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We realize we were having bad luck and stuff that wasn't going our way.
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Best Verse: JeezyOverall Grade: B Rico Richie had some truly bad luck in 2015.
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I won't even allow my own brother to go in—it brings bad luck.
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Mostly for the worse, sure, but bad luck runs out, just like the good.
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Now you really have no reason to blame your bad luck on the retrograde.
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Or, in actuality, just the sheer, dumb bad luck of not having an EpiPen.
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"In the midst of my bad luck, I had some good luck," Cammas said.
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She told her Facebook friends that she's had a string of bad luck lately.
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It only takes one stroke of bad luck to wipe out what you have.
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IT COULD BE NUMEROUS REASONS WHY YOU ARE HAVING A SPAT OF BAD LUCK.
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Frustration over a bit of bad luck could result in a loss of focus.
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"It is my bad luck I never went to the World Cup," he added.
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Maybe Roodman had unusually bad luck of the draw with the studies he replicated.
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The 1980s brought more of what the 21st century did: disappointment and bad luck.
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The Democratic Electoral College disadvantage is more a product of bad luck than geography.
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Today's maintenance problems stem from a collision of bad luck and poor decision making.
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While his interception was a poor decision, his second turnover was plain bad luck.
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I've had a lot of bad luck with horses, which is how it goes.
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Narrator: Breaking a mirror, for example, is thought to bring seven years bad luck.
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For some speechwriters, it could be bad luck not to prepare two different speeches.
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Mr. Gutomo then reflected on the village's bad luck of being visited by elephants.
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Now I'm beginning to wonder if there is more to it than bad luck.
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When asked if she thinks it's bad luck for the groom to see his bride in her dress before the wedding, she said: "I'm very superstitious but I wouldn't say that it's bad luck, I would just say I prefer sticking with traditions."
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Ms. Carmichael spoke about Edith's bad luck, the problem with male editors and sisterly rivalry.
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If there are fewer, then due to genetic effects and bad luck, we probably won't.
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As it turns out, this is Hackmann's second bout of bad luck at Busch Stadium.
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But for one to land near you would be an incredible stroke of bad luck.
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After being informed of D'Orsi's responsibilities during Xi's visit, the queen said "Oh, bad luck".
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It's bad luck for whoever is in its path, but that's what going on here.
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I've had seriously bad luck for several months now, so I'm really hoping this helps.
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The run of bad luck, while painful, reminded them of what's really important, Mattis said.
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The fictional Wiseau creates his own bad luck, usually through hubris and transparently vulnerable posturing.
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But a bit of bad luck with his health forced Dear to temporarily close down.
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In Latin culture, any pearls on a bride on her wedding day are bad luck.
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They've been working their butts off and we've been having such bad luck this year.
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Some bad luck, like rain or a few cloudy days, can negatively impact the harvest.
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Entering this frightful franchised haunt forces visitors to come face-to-face with bad luck.
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Instead of Larry's apocalyptic bad luck, however, Mannix must contend with some very human problems.
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However, McTeer admitted that bad luck and unfortunate timing has compounded the current undesirable circumstances.
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"I feel for Pascal, because he has had all the bad luck," said the Austrian.
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"Will the government be responsible if our village is cursed with bad luck?" she asked.
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That, combined with a bit of bad luck, had put Munchkin into a difficult situation.
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Officials in President Nicolas Maduro's socialist government say they can hardly believe their bad luck.
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But there was a point where the bad luck became more consistent than the good.
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"Bad luck, stay away," said running back Ezekiel Elliott, per Jon Machota of The Athletic.
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His friend had to sell his car last year after a run of bad luck.
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If he has issues, well, bad luck for him, and I'll take advantage of it.
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Falvey attributed Drake's troubles this year to bad luck and all the moving around; his .
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I would have taken it as bad luck and found a new place to stay.
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"That is extremely bad luck and that will be reflected in the mortalities," he said.
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That Dallas's unusual weather favored the growth of mosquitoes might seem like random bad luck.
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Buying new also guarantees there aren't unwelcome spirits, thought to bring bad luck or harm.
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Although, to be fair, he had a ton of bad luck before it turned good.
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Judy believes the rock cursed them with bad luck, but Steve thinks she is being irrational.
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Chris also is the victim of both good luck and bad luck with his immunity idol.
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But in most cases the founders chalk it up to bad luck and the consultant apologizes.
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They aren't here to bother anyone, and they won't let bad luck get in their way.
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For one barely clinging to her job, it amounted to almost cosmic levels of bad luck.
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This is not simply bad luck, it is the latest in a long trend of omission.
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Superstition leads many people in Tanzania to believe that albinos are ghosts who bring bad luck.
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Unfortunately, that win did not mark the end of the fearsome Brazilian's streak of bad luck.
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They decide she is bad luck, a bad omen for the superstitious fishermen who found her.
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A black kitten went from bad luck to good thanks to South Carolina's Spartanburg Police Department.
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Among the many longstanding wedding superstitions, May's bad luck reputation has been around since ancient Rome.
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The San Diego Chargers have combined bad decisions with bad luck, and could be truly awful.
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Racing could argue that it suffered from bad luck after losing its two most creative players.
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To be mentally ill is bad luck, and to not be mentally ill is good luck.
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On one hand, it took a remarkable amount of bad luck for America to fall short.
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A road trip gone wrongChynna Deese and Lucas Fowler had hit a patch of bad luck.
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Sometimes that's because of the effectiveness of the vaccine and other times, it's just bad luck.
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The ceremony is intended to wash away one's bad luck and receive a blessing in return.
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"Cock breeders don't eat chicken because they think it will bring them bad luck," explained Chua.
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Many factors influence cancer risk; even for lifelong smokers, getting cancer is often just bad luck.
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He is 54 points behind Vettel, but would be closer if not for some bad luck.
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Here's the history of March 15 and why it's considered a day full of bad luck.
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But just because it's bad luck for the Democrats doesn't mean it's not a real disadvantage.
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She told me people kept covering it so as not to let out the bad luck.
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Before we begin, let us say that we sympathize with the bad luck you are experiencing.
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In 2012, he shared images that captured the struggles of young people battered by bad luck.
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To reach 0-9 involves a lack of talent, some bad luck, and some horrible decisions.
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Muslims nearer to the North Pole, accordingly, would just have to deal with their bad luck.
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Sometimes the spikes are caused by track mismanagement or shoddy horsemanship, other times by bad luck.
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In recent years, however, the group fell victim to diplomatic bad luck and self-inflicted mistakes.
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When you walk under a ladder, you&aposre violating the Trinity, and therefore causing bad luck.
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It's bad luck for Schumacher, who had just driven under that cloud on his way south.
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Maybe it was bad luck, we said to each other, or bad parts, or bad welding.
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Though all superheroes have bad luck in romance: They can do anything except get the girl/guy.
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The bad luck just kept coming, and the duo failed to make any money with Ski-Z.
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Oh my God, Hiram Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos) is behind Archie's recent bad luck and near-arrest.
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To ward off any bad luck, we're remembering all the moments that Hemsworth's hotness was almost – almost!
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When authorities later questioned Garner, it became clear this wasn't just bad luck, it was all staged.
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Injuries stink and so does bad luck, but the Hornets aren't as rudderless as they currently feel.
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It sounds like spooky fun, but their reputation as an omen of bad luck has real consequences.
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A lot of commentators simply treat it as bad luck, with the Fed as a mere spectator.
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Just remind your friends that in cooperative games, sometimes bad luck means the end of the world.
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They say opening umbrellas in the house brings bad luck, but this time I don't believe it.
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Tanaka (1-0) allowed three runs (two earned) and six hits but also encountered some bad luck.
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Others, like bird bones, were used in rituals to cast away an "evil eye" or bad luck.
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Next time I moved was in 2015, so-, CR: Bad luck follows you, that's what you're saying.
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But her bad luck followed her to TV. 22016-218: NBC eyes David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman.
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What starts off as simple trip to the gym turns into an endless string of bad luck.
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You know how a lot of buildings just skip the 13th floor altogether because it's "bad luck"?
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Their mix of bad luck and poor choices sends them into a situation that seems comically dire.
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On days where bad luck was prophesied, I really did find fewer things out in the world.
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But instead of sitting still, despairing over their situation and bad luck, they took advantage of it.
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"What bad luck, @kamilglik25 hurt himself, will not go to the World Cup," Boniek said on Twitter.
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So engulfed by the violence of his bad luck that I almost feel like I can't function.
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For Nyquist, however, bad luck and black magic landed on him like an anvil in the Preakness.
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But maybe the book's obscurity wasn't just bad luck: Maybe the culture just wasn't ready for it.
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The dire straits in which we find Oklahoma's education system is not a stroke of bad luck.
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That's why they wore masks —just even a glimpse of his eye could bring you bad luck.
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But human or machine error, bad luck or faulty military math still lead to unforeseen civilian deaths.
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Cancer Whether or not you develop cancer may have more to do with bad luck than lifestyle.
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Ray's band, Bad Luck #13 was the next generation of in your face provocative rock and roll.
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"Whenever he has bad luck, he always complains, 'Oh, it's because my surname changed,'" Ms. Noda said.
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It suggests a toxic blend of bad luck and gross incompetence, and probably more of the latter.
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When social stigma drapes over professional immobility and lost opportunities, bad luck is perceived as bad character.
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It's Mike Wilkinson's bad luck that they gave me so much time to train for this fight.
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"He's had all the bad luck he needs for a while," Mr. Jolley said before the Derby.
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But they serve as a kind of insurance process to help deal with strokes of bad luck.
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It was bad luck that he happened to have a run-in with law enforcement soon afterward.
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Or all the ways bad luck threatened to tear Bates (Brendan Coyle) and Anna (Joanne Froggatt) apart.
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Neither Netanyahu's bad luck, nor Benjamin Gantz's good fortune, has much to do with changed voter attitudes.
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They may find that, in both war and law, third on a match is truly bad luck.
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Traditionally, couples didn't see each other before their wedding ceremonies, as it's believed to be bad luck.
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Tuesday is also terrifying In some Spanish-speaking countries, Tuesday (Martes) the 13th is considered bad luck.
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Bowman was an abundantly talented writer (maybe too abundantly; hang on) with an abundance of bad luck.
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But it serves as a kind of insurance process to help deal with strokes of bad luck.
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Bad management and bad luck—a weak economy and demands for more capital from regulators—made matters worse.
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"These kids just had bad luck and were in trouble and needed some help," Reinecke told ABC News.
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Really bad luck for Parker -- we're told the owner of the headphones is an LAPD Robbery Homicide detective.
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OK, if there are only two or three games, maybe you can chalk it up to bad luck.
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It was only the latest in the family's string of bad luck: Addison's husband is hospitalized with cancer.
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I'd had bad luck with this kind of woman — overly sensitive, entitled despite their secular humanist liberal thinking.
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Yeah, it's seven years' bad luck, but it's also weirdly entertaining when captured by the Slow Mo Guys.
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They've supposedly been cursed since 1945, which created a franchise steeped in suffering and broken by bad luck.
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Losing it due to bad luck that we had in some grands prix would have been very annoying.
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What initially appeared to be a bad-luck bounce for the Astros proved inconsequential in the fourth inning.
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Most of the Doom Patrol's squad are products of questionable decisions, unfair choices and some astonishingly bad luck.
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Stories are happening all around you, and it's your bad luck if you find yourself ensnared in one.
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Part of the challenge was bad luck, a drought in California hurt the quality of Bolthouse's carrot crop.
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But the miscues illustrate how poor planning, or even plain bad luck, can undermine a president's performance abroad.
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Bad luck that he showed up on a day I need him in and out in 19 minutes.
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There's Mary Anne, who is cursed after throwing away a chain letter in Mary Anne's Bad-Luck Mystery.
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Historically, demonic possessions have been used to diagnose mental or physical illnesses and even strings of bad luck.
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Surgery, weird injuries, witches' hexes: The Mets' season was near laughable in the extravagance of its bad luck.
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But in his recent VICE Magazine story, Johnson explains that this is not simply because of bad luck.
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And that, in turn, makes the world uncommonly vulnerable to a bout of bad luck or bad policy.
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Egan is aware of the bad luck and missed opportunities that can drive men and women toward crime.
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If you climb a mountain, you'll bring devastation down on people and it'll be bad luck for them.
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And, bad luck for Fern, the wastewater pond is slated to go right next to where she lives.
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Neil Cavuto is a premiere example of a guy simultaneously blessed and cursed with good and bad luck.
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Bad luck for you if he's in the mood to play a game of poker for your soul.
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The age-old custom in Pakistan for warding off evil and bad luck is simple: Slaughter an animal.
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The vagaries of weather, volatile commodity markets, mechanical woes and, occasionally, just bad luck, come with the job.
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It was just bad luck that Sister Hedwig came out early and shouted that she could see us.
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Mike was forced to drink the center cup three times through a combination of failures and bad luck.
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Designs have come to fruition, gambles have paid off, and bad luck, when encountered, has quickly turned good.
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A couple of bad decisions or a bit of bad luck, and I could be in that position.
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He's not raking in good numbers, and the bad luck gets worse when his crew discovers an oil leak.
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Even though we've just survived another Friday the 803th, the bad luck hasn't impacted the number of tech deals.
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When it began, I would have told you that it was bad luck and the breaks in the game.
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Lower back pain develops for many reasons, including lifestyle, genetics, ergonomics, sports injuries, snow shoveling or just bad luck.
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The fact it then manifested as SM was a parallel stroke of bad luck, likely triggered by starting school.
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If you don't know what that means, then you've probably had a lot of bad luck in your life.
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Some poor sucker has a lizard penis tied on their belt and is experiencing bad luck, as we speak.
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A player is said to be "on tilt" when frustration at bad luck leads him to abandon his strategy.
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Mercury's time spent in Sag will likely see spells of bad luck and grand, long-term plans going awry.
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"I think the first half of his season he was plagued by a bit of bad luck," said Horner.
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"It's Under Armour's bad luck that they compete against one of the best-run businesses on earth," he said.
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A teaser shows the serial's version of the Hall of Face, with whispers of bad luck befalling the Bharadwajs.
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Once a mainstay in the Dodgers lineup, Ethier has been dealt bad luck with injuries the past two seasons.
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Deflections, defensemen falling down, odd-man rushes and some bad luck have victimized him in the first two games.
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Friday the 13th looms, threatening us with bad luck of all stripes (or so we've been made to believe).
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It has had bad luck, like when Gérard Houllier had to step down as coach because of medical issues.
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Together, they toast to Hakeem's daughter, but not before cracking wise about their seemingly never-ending bad-luck streak.
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When so much has gone wrong to something once so seemingly wonderful, one ascribes bad luck, and bad management.
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He didn't blame his parents; it was bad luck — an unpredictable anomaly — that the new development wasn't a playborhood.
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"It's bad luck," he told advisers, according to one senior aide who spoke to Mr. Trump about the matter.
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Good or bad luck on balls in play alters their results in ways that don't reflect their true abilities.
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A ritual still practiced today, to leave it out was believed to bring extreme bad luck to the marriage.
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Still, the worry is that bad luck can nest like a sparrow in the back of a pitcher's mind.
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If you break your leg the day before a ski trip, that's not ironic — it's coincidental (and bad luck).
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The problems fall into two categories: bad luck, and the result of the crowded nature of the European market.
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And this combination of bad luck and bad policy surely played a role in the political disaster that followed.
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From the earliest age, people here are taught that any contact with a menstruating woman will bring bad luck.
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Some believe black cats bring bad luck, adding to the slightly spooky vibe of this early Judy Garland portrait.
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"It is just your bad luck that I stumbled across your misadventures while working a job," the letter continued.
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Seeing a single magpie can be bad luck, it is believed, though saluting one can ward off ill fortune.
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The moral of the story is that they're hard workers, they've had some bad luck lately, they deserve it.
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Mr. Vasiukov's good fortune in being from the Soviet Union, where chess was exalted, was also his bad luck.
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Many people in rural villages believe that menstruating women are impure and can bring bad luck on a household.
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To be fair, Grant was more a victim of bad luck than an intentional practitioner of mass avian homicide.
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It could be down to bad luck, or your internet connection, or even the glare coming off the screen.
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Researching, I came across a list titled "Kate Upton and 10 other bad luck sports WAGS" — wives and girlfriends.
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I could still be there at night if that stroke of good luck and bad luck had not happened.
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They were the ultimate bad luck bad boys of rock 'n' roll, fans of hard drinking and heavy riffs.
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Proves that even smart rockers with a great work ethic can suffer "This Is Spinal Tap" levels of bad luck.
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Myrcella was one of the show's many innocent victims — she just had the bad luck of being born a Lannister.
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They are depicted as innocents, caught up in an after-dark romp, who had the bad luck to get arrested.
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We had some bad luck but didn't panic and the defense made some stops and we got on a roll.
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As is common nowadays with some URLs, scam artists saw an opportunity to make money off of your bad luck.
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I work super hard and I've had some bad luck, but it's nice to know that it is paying off.
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Even if you've had bad luck with online dating in the past, AdultFriendFinder is the place to 100% be yourself.
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It was part of a run of bad luck in 2015, alongside two rounds of layoffs and a major restructuring.
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This isn't the first time Wynn has experienced a bit of bad luck with his multi-million dollar art collection.
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You'll curse your bad luck, second-guess your decisions, and perhaps even ask some fundamental questions about your own morality.
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Some of the dodgy loans have soured because of bad luck: mining projects have been hit by slumping commodity prices.
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Maybe it's just bad luck; across four star systems and more than a dozen planets, I've explored largely barren worlds.
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It takes the pressure off if anything, because all I wanted was one race where I had no bad luck.
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Perhaps bad luck has played a factor, but the Mets hoped the numbers would slowly start to stabilize by now.
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We aren't so different, you and I. It's partly bad luck, as much as I enjoy dumping on the NHL.
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It could be used to show it was incidental and bad luck and thus a suspension might not be warranted.
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Now, technically East coasters are safe from the extra bad luck—the Harvest Moon won't arrive until 12:33 a.m.
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But when 50 years of development efforts don't produce meaningful gains, something other than bad luck is probably at work.
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In ancient Rome, for instance, it was considered bad luck to have sexual intercourse while the moon obscured the sun.
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Folklorist Frank C. Brown documented that in the early 20th century, many Americans associated bats with death or bad luck.
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But then again, the vast majority of airplanes don't crash at all, so strictly speaking, this plane was bad luck.
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The team dropped the logo then because a downward-facing trident was said to mean bad luck in Greek mythology.
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The downpour was bad luck for the dozens of journalists there that day, but it was also a touch allegorical.
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Many of them were expected to shine as players, but through either bad luck or bad choices had disappointing careers.
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Hit by a hard wave of bad luck, Colin Campbell rode it right into the arms of a new best friend.
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What to look for: Breaks will indicate bad luck or major losses; a double line may indicate a particularly successful career.
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This combination of bad luck and slow implementation undid him as investors lost confidence in his ability to turn things around.
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The future newlyweds are avoiding the bad luck superstition of the groom seeing the bride in her dress before the ceremony.
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It puts me in control of my destiny, not just a victim at the mercy of other people or bad luck.
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Brittany, who according to WTSP was raised by her grandparents, also feels her mother's stunt has also brought her bad luck.
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At first, the scientists thought it was extremely bad luck, inheriting the same super-rare gene twice, once from each parent.
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Honeymoons aren't always what they're cracked up to be — thanks in large part to bad luck, bad weather, or crazy relatives.
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Disgruntled diamond traders in the 19th and 20th centuries allegedly spread that bad-luck rumor to deter people from buying opals.
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The fact that all mango trees other than the Mulgoba died was not an effect of neglect, amateurism, or bad luck.
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One of the oldest tricks in the psychic scam playbook is the offer to remove bad luck or reverse a curse.
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Call it bad luck or just bad timing, Clinton found out there is indeed an expiration date on positive political perceptions.
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The Logans have been historically plagued by bad luck, including Clyde, an Iraq vet who lost his arm in the war.
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If they really liked me, well I suppose it's just bad luck, could have had something that would go somewhere potentially.
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While bad luck can be unavoidable, there is a silver lining waiting for the wounded recovering in pastel-filled Thai hospitals.
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A few infected visitors at the height of summer, and some bad luck, could herald yellow fever's unwelcome return there too.
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His archaic masculinity is her opportunity: a stroke of good fortune in a presidential bid with plenty of bad luck, too.
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They both humanely play these characters who have also been beaten down by layoffs, debt, dead-end jobs, and bad luck.
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"I thought my incident was a freak accident with really bad luck with the positioning," Bourgeous, 30, told The Associated Press.
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Our family doesn't live locally and we've had bad luck finding reliable babysitters, so we take advantage of this PNO deal.
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In the fictional world of The Name of the Wind, it is considered bad luck to insult or harm a tinker.
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But Post, who was a passenger in one of the cars, couldn't help but laugh at his weeks of bad luck.
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All photos by Zia Anger/Courtesy of Pitch Perfect PR Julianna Barwick has run into a bit of bad luck lately.
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While bad luck is indeed normal for the farming business, this season's crisis is neither normal nor a matter of luck.
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As a rapper, Joe Budden had a hit 22014 years ago — and then a string of bad luck and poor choices.
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What befell them Wednesday was a Rube Goldberg contraption of woe, one stroke of bad luck, or poor play, after another.
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It brings nothing but bad luck, they say, as Dimitri Payet found out in the Europa League final 10 days ago.
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It's the bad luck of the current crew of lawmakers is that their fates coincide with this moment of national angst.
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A maneki-neko, a cute charm showing a cat with a raised paw, is used to ward off the bad luck.
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In that sense, the third round could prove as much a charm for the administration as bad luck for the challengers.
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But it would not take much bad luck to spark a recession and reverse the past few years' hard-won gains.
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But here are 19883 responders from recent history who hit at least some bad luck after their major addresses. 1. Sen.
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But it helps to stay focused, have the long view, and realize that you can often turn bad luck to good.
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The guy I'm dating is 10 years older than me, but moved back in with his mom after some bad luck.
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It suggests some combination of our own hubris and simple bad luck could end any one of us at any time.
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Some of Pakistan's faltering can be blamed on bad luck, such as a fall in remittances from workers in the Middle East.
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Julian does believe that some people have bad luck, and Edith is one of them, but they were really good story lines.
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Japanese men and women approaching these ages will take part in the fish ceremony in the hope of swerving this bad luck.
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After all, record temperatures and snowfalls, hurricanes and floods are easy to dismiss as random and unrelated, bad luck, acts of God.
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"I bring absolutely nothing because I feel like it's bad luck," said Samie, a 24-year-old talent acquisition specialist in Memphis.
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Though the data suggest that this was probably due to bad luck, the coaches pored through academic research to find possible solutions.
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After having some bad luck with love, an American (Cameron Diaz) and English woman (Kate Winslet) impulsively trade homes for the holidays.
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Hollendorfer, who at the time attributed the deaths to a run of bad luck, could not be reached for comment on Friday.
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Arrive at dawn to avoid the crowds, and make sure your shoes face heel-first into the temple, otherwise it's bad luck.
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Out of pure bad luck, his soon-to-be ex-girlfriend spotted him and walked up to us all smiley and happy.
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"It only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction," he continued.
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Indeed, my lucky 13th submission (July 13, 2015) got the nod, but I did encounter a bit of bad luck with it.
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Binotto also complimented Leclerc for his reaction to the disappointment of having a first win seized from his grasp by bad luck.
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First of all, what bad luck that you get found out for the one time you behaved badly in your entire life.
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Is this the inevitable result of a lull in productivity growth, a result of bad policy or bad luck, or some mix?
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"We had a lot of bad teams, and when we had good teams, we had a lot of bad luck," he said.
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There's also a common superstition about 13 people at a table being bad luck, which is thought to have the same origin.
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And with a little luck, UFC 205 will buck its bad luck and evolve into the card we've all been hoping for.
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Colonization II The transmission of cancer from human to human requires both the transfer of tissue and incredible amounts of bad luck.
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The disappointment is too intense to be rooted in bad luck; it must, instead, be proof of some wide-ranging systemic failure.
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My mother, through extraordinary misfortune and just general bad luck, has had to move too many times in the past 20 years.
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"I used to only eat tomatoes to stay skinny," she said, but explained that she now considers tomatoes a bad luck food.
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Alice and Ella have moved from place to place in an attempt to avoid the "bad luck" that seems to follow them.
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The ides of March are come, and some call the day bad luck, a warning to be careful, to check your six.
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The ides of March are come, and some call the day bad luck, a warning to be careful, to check your six.
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Yet this is what we signed up for, and we shouldn't be surprised when we're on the losing end of bad luck.
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Cut to bad luck, to a Toby irreparably damaged, and to a body and memory on which he can no longer rely.
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But she had the bad luck of doing so after most voters had cast their ballots during early voting in that state.
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It's based on his own screenplay for the movie, about an adopted boy who, bad luck for everyone involved, is the Antichrist.
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They've fled West Virginia for college or for boys or for kicks, but are back because of poverty, bad luck, sick parents.
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"It only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction," he added.
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"I think I am hitting the bad luck for the next season and the one after and maybe even 2021," said Grosjean.
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He told of driver superstitions: peanuts in their shells were bad luck, as were green-colored cars and shaving before a race.
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"You make a mistake or you get some bad luck ... you don't moan and groan and say, 'Woe is me,'" Cramer said.
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"It's bad luck that the shootings happened in Florida, but they were random and unrelated and could have happened anywhere," he said.
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Outlook: Last year was a perfect storm—a bad roster full of players having bad seasons while getting pelted with bad luck.
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Living on the outskirts of town, her family's run of bad luck begins when her baby brother vanishes during a game of peekaboo.
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Much later, authorities discovered that what seemed like endless strokes of bad luck for one family in fact went all according to plan.
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But the same bad luck that saw him retire with an engine failure while leading in Malaysia this month can also strike elsewhere.
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For all his talk of feelings, Drake is either really into being single or he's had some bad luck getting partners to stick.
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Beepi's failings appear to be the result of poor execution, mispricings and maybe even some bad luck around a financing that fell through.
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Mario reflects on his own bad luck with an "it is what it is" shrug until the controversial 1981 race enters the discussion.
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However there is no intervention protocol for—depending on your point of view—natural injuries, or bad luck, or angering a vengeful god.
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These celebrities and business people lost their money for a number of reasons: mishandled finances, poor investments, financial fraud, or just bad luck.
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But in the New York case, by sheer bad luck, the Department of Justice ended up in front of Magistrate Judge James Orenstein.
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Why did some friends have such bad luck that they had to crash with her for months because they had nowhere to go?
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"We just thought it was a spate of bad luck," Mark's brother, Michael Staudte, tells PEOPLE in this week's issue, on newsstands Friday.
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Dark deals with time travel, which allows characters with necessary knowledge (or bad luck) to travel 213 years into the past or future.
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This might have been bad luck, but I ended up on a subway train filled with older white women yelling at everyone else.
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They have had bad luck: a rugged early schedule, eight losses by one or two runs, a hamstring injury to outfielder Ender Inciarte.
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He was also superstitious, and during his campaign he had deflected discussions about post-election staffing, fearing that it would bring bad luck.
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Many people insist that his relationship with Khloé Kardashian has brought about the bad luck that his team is experiencing in the finals.
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If this doesn't work, bad luck—you've likely fallen foul of server issues again and that Eevee will forever be beyond your grasp.
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In this nerve-grating thriller, a murderous hitchhiker torments two hapless motorists who have the decency — and bad luck — to pick him up.
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As the weight of the prediction comes to bear on the family, they are brought closer by their shared bad luck and shame.
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Some took this to mean that cancer is much more because of "bad luck" than because of other factors that people could control.
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Russia's latest string of bad luck began with a fire aboard a secret deep-diving nuclear-powered submarine and resulted in 14 deaths.
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Wendy (Michelle Williams), a drifter from Indiana, has a run of bad luck after pausing in a town on her way to Alaska.
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If this is just a standard economic expansion that has been slowed by some bad luck, then the central bank's usual rules apply.
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This year, the bad luck has come to Hamilton's car, along with most of the mechanics who worked on Rosberg's car last year.
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It takes a special combination of incompetence and bad luck to lose as much as the Mets have in deGrom's starts this season.
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In most western popular culture, 26/24.7 is to weed what 203 is to bad luck, 220 to Satan, and 24 to sex.
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If we need to look out for a streak of bad luck, we'd at least like to know why it's coming for us.
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You could say that it's just bad luck, although 36 games seems like a pretty long stretch to chalk up to the bounces.
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Like the thing Jamie Foxx says about hex songs—the whole sort of dialogue about the idea of there being bad luck songs.
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It was my bad luck to learn that he was also cunning, violent, and someone who obtained gratification from causing others to suffer.
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But some were, and it all combined with some very bad luck to produce one of the most persistent outliers in recent elections.
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Even if that doesn't happen, bad luck for the American economy or other substantive setbacks in foreign policy could make Clinton super-unpopular.
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To conclude that this is a personal issue or bad luck or, worse, a bad choice misses the pernicious influences of systemic racism.
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Gayle King is having just as much bad luck as everyone else trying to get their hands on the new Popeyes chicken sandwich.
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In other words, Confucius's well-dressed maid answers the door to help out but also to keep any bad luck from getting out.
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During the 2015 World Series, Familia had three blown saves, although some of that was the result of bad luck and bad fielding.
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Also: Brit had the bad luck of performing almost immediately after Beyoncé's set practically tore down Madison Square Garden and set it ablaze.
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Unsurprisingly, we are not exactly sure of the historical evidence as to how Friday the 13th became synonymous with bad luck and superstition.
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The bleakness of her majors record was as much about her bad luck as any lack of talent or poise on the biggest stages.
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All that bad luck changed when she and Daly first met through mutual friend (and fellow Bravolebrity) Chef Roblé Ali back in June 2016.
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Jean-Luc Bilodeau may be the studly star of Baby Daddy, but that doesn't mean he's impervious to bad luck in the love department.
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Many older Chinese display posters of him in their homes, and taxi drivers carry his picture as an amulet to ward off bad luck.
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Ironically, this happens after Jo claims to not be superstitious about seeing her groom before walking down the aisle and therefore summoning bad luck.
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And as (bad) luck would have it, the iPhone 5 I owned prior to this was also affected by an earlier Apple battery fault.
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The price paid for a stock or a bond should allow for human error, bad luck or, indeed, many things going wrong at once.
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All that bad luck changed when she and Daly first met through mutual friend (and fellow Bravolebrity) chef Roblé Ali back in June 2016.
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It is tempting to view these cases as unrelated events caused by factors ranging from bad luck and human error to negligence and criminality.
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What gets them locked in the titular backstage cell has nothing to do with their performance; it's just a stroke of dumb bad luck.
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First up is Autonomy Farms, who hope to end their recent string of bad luck by impressing Tilman with their organic beef and produce.
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In any case, Mr. Settler said, it is clear to him that human failure and inadequate track maintenance, not bad luck, caused the crash.
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They would influence generations of musicians like Ray Auffrey (Bad Luck #13), PJ Dunphy (The Monoxides), Dana Robertson (Hope) and Rick White(Eric's Trip).
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Just when you're thinking that the day's bad luck has peaked with an emergency eye amputation, Redcoats emerge from the churchyard, carrying lit torches.
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Sometimes these omissions are justified by a disparity in skill, but in certain cases bad luck, prejudice or misunderstanding prevented artists from getting recognition.
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By this I mean that the recipients are willing to work hard but were experiencing bad luck that left them in need of assistance.
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No one close to him had the bad luck to be where a bomb went off or to get caught in crossfire, relatives said.
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The larger point is that successive peace process efforts have failed not because of avoidable misunderstandings, inept negotiating tactics, diplomatic blunders or bad luck.
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Whether it's incompetence or bad luck or super-bad bad guys, it doesn't matter: Facebook keeps screwing up with people's personal data and privacy.
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HIPAA lays enormous fines on any individual or organization which releases PHI against a person's wishes, whether through intentional carelessness or just bad luck.
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But might it be our responsibility to point out that these problems are not just bad luck but also the result of political decisions?
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" He continued: "A lot of slumps start with some bad luck and a run to the video room for the last 10 at-bats.
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This litigious trend seems to have begun after financial strain caused by health issues and a string of bad luck with their small business.
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"Maybe some of this was bad luck and bad timing, but a lot of it was just plain mismanagement," the "Mad Money" host said.
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A maneki-neko, a cute charm showing a cat with a raised paw, is used to counter the bad luck by inviting good fortune.
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The kind in which a youngish adult, bruised by bad luck and bad decisions, returns to a hometown awash in nostalgia and old friends.
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But in the UK, this isn't exactly the case, since many people view them as tempting fate and being a harbinger of bad luck.
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"The doctor told me it's bad luck when I did mine," said Britton, who returned to a major-league mound five months after surgery.
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Of course, I realize now how much the economy had to do with this as well as my own bad luck with my back.
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NBC Sports reported that Philadelphia fans created a petition to ban Jenner from games, viewing her as a bad luck charm for the team.
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"Bad Luck" glides along on gently ticking drums and a lacework of guitars, distantly suggesting Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing," yet it's anything but reassuring.
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"I felt like earlier, I was making good contact but a combination of bad luck played into it as well," he said through an interpreter.
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Some historians date 13-related bad luck to dinner partiesFor one, the Last Supper: There were 13 people (12 apostles, one Jesus) at that dinner?
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Image: Hilary DownesOpals are beautiful gemstones, supposed harbingers of bad luck, and perhaps the only thing to come out of Australia that won't kill you.
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The researchers informally refer to cancers that develop in this way as "bad luck" cancers because there's evidently nothing we can do to avoid them.
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Maybe after people come across his account, they'll be more encouraged to take them in and abandon the false stigmas about them being "bad luck."
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Losing the box was purely bad luck: Someone living in the home put it on the curb for pickup without knowing there was money inside.
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At the same time, Iran had a stroke of bad luck: An outbreak of bird flu forced the country to slaughter some 20093 million chickens.
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But Mulvaney's comments may set that discussion back by playing down the role of diseases that people get due to genetics or simple bad luck.
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"It's just a big relief that we were able to score that win with him after such a terrible streak of bad luck," said Wolff.
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"Every year we come here, we have a fast car and fail to execute, whether that&aposs just called bad luck or whatever," Busch said.
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We don't want to lose an entire generation because they had the bad luck of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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We released the No Sleep EP at the beginning of last year and then released the single "Bad Luck" at the end of the year.
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In ancient Ireland, they would give butter as an offering to the fairies because they were thought to be mischievous and harbingers of bad luck.
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Anderson has run into his fair share of bad luck in five starts versus the Cardinals, however, going 0-43 despite posting a 2.42 ERA.
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I called my manager up to laugh at my bad luck; we never thought something like this could ever happen in such a fancy store.
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To his followers it was a brave case of carrying on after some bad luck; to an outsider, it's a classic example of chasing losses.
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So much bloody bad luck shouldered by one character stretches the limits of the audience's suspension of disbelief — it's getting old, and it's getting draining.
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But after our bad luck the previous day, we were treated to what LouAnn said was one of the warmest, calmest days of the year.
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The bad luck started on August 21, when Post's private jet was forced to make an emergency landing after two of its tires blew out.
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Baltimore starter John Means (1-1) suffered from some bad luck during a five-run second inning that gave the A's control of the game.
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Life is made up of so many compromises, and there are so many happinesses we must forsake because of health, money, timing or bad luck.
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But in cases of surprise expenses or sheer bad luck, it can be an essential back-up plan and even enhance your quality of life.
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Of the four devices set to explode, only one did as planned, a combination of bad luck and apparent mistakes that almost certainly saved lives.
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This seems to be the one that, by pretty bad luck, had the right combination of traits to effectively and stealthily spread among human hosts.
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It's the story of two people whose love collapses under the weight of bad luck and betrayal but who can't manage to quit each other.
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I know in my heart only that a confluence of then-unknown factors and bad luck has brought me to the barracks of ill health.
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Howard had been asking Beth to walk down the aisle again for years to no avail, with his wife calling the vow renewal bad luck.
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The apartment was the cheapest one I could find, and with my "bad luck" there were a lot of African-Americans in that apartment complex.
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The smaller isolated populations were far more likely to succumb to disease or climate fluctuations or demographic bad luck than a larger population would have.
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He's on the brink as it is, and it's a foregone conclusion that a bit of bad luck will finally push him over the edge.
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After the painting is stolen from Marty de Groot, whose family had owned it for generations, Marty's streak of bad luck comes to an end.
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For some, the string of untimely deaths and scandals in President John F. Kennedy's family may seem too unlikely to chalk up as bad luck.
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Henry and his wife have a daughter who was born with virtually no hearing (because of genetic bad luck, not Eli concerts experienced in utero).
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It's a role that brings with it high expectations and, for a few years, seemed to leave young politicians with a bit of bad luck.
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You may recall the controversial "bad luck" cancer research published in 2015 that focused on how random genetic mutations can drive many cases of cancer.
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"Bad Luck" and the Eric Bachmann duet, "Sleep All Summer," address vaguer existential longing, but without anything specific to get angry about, she sounds bored.
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Some of the most popular Advice Animals: Business Cat, a cat sporting a tie and offering advice fit for feline co-workers; Socially Awkward Penguin, a penguin lacking in self esteem and social graces; Scumbag Steve, a youth known for his sideways cap and flair for getting into precarious situations; and Bad Luck Brian, a braces-clad teen wearing a vest who suffers from perpetual bad luck.
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"Local shamans started telling parents that any bad luck that has befallen the village was due to girls and women breaking the chhaupadi tradition," she said.
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Mourinho felt United had suffered more bad luck as Ibrahimovic also had a 71st minute headed effort ruled out for the most fractional of offside decisions.
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But it was a stroke of bad luck that made her the type of person who could land a major comedy role with no acting experience.
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Some people say it's bad luck to wear an engagement ring from a failed marriage, but this one may have been too gorgeous to pass up.
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GREG HAYES: Well I think there's a little bit of bad luck involved if you will-- if I have to really be honest with you, Jim.
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The incident is the latest in a run of bad luck for the $360 million state-of-the-art warship since it was commissioned in September.
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Contamination of tubing hardware and the misalignment of a large robotic welding tool have also slowed down development, and then there's been just some bad luck.
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The horn gesture is an apotropaic sign used in Italy and other Mediterranean countries to ward off bad luck and to ward off the evil eye.
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If you've ever cursed your bad luck because you lost another lip balm, you might find yourself cringing when watching the latest viral video from watch.it.melt.
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Our situation was not unique, as my extended family would often hang out at shopping centers after funerals or crises to cleanse us from bad luck.
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Bad luck We just found out that South Korea, the country set to host the next Olympics, secretly did a really, really horrible job last time.
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After a few real-life days of drifting once more, having particularly bad luck finding anything explorable, I begin to orbit a cracked white ice ball.
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After a string of bad luck and health problems, Megan Sullivan was inspired to travel her way through some of the most wonderful sites on Earth.
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One victim told the Jakarta Post that a man once convinced her to hurl bags of leaves into a river to rid herself of bad luck.
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Over the 15 playthroughs I can see that you can easily get bad luck with RNG 20 minutes into a game and have to start over.
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At least the dinosaurs could blame an asteroid for their bad luck, Mitchell pointed out, whereas we may self-destruct with no outside help at all.
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For many places now free of yellow fever, a few infected visitors at the height of summer, and some bad luck, could mean its unwelcome return.
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"We never talk about it — it's bad luck," Ivan Nova, who had Tommy John surgery two years ago, said before Tuesday's game against the Texas Rangers.
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Recently, before a five-hour flight from San Francisco International Airport to JFK, my family ran into a bit of bad luck: Our flight was delayed.
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It was just her bad luck that she took the college-entrance exam in 1977—the first time you could take it after the Cultural Revolution.
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Bourgeous said he asked Davis to the park because he assumed that his attack was just "really bad luck" and that it couldn't possibly happen again.
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As luck would have it -- or rather, bad luck -- I recently had a bout of what seemed like food poisoning to put it to the test.
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So… sure... --- What's your thoughts on Travis, injury prone time to move on, bad luck, wait it out or something else Paul Time to move on??
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But if you don't save enough to cover your living expenses or you get hit with bad luck, retirement can be a time of financial stress.
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Now, he runs four other bars or restaurants, with another, The Bad Luck Bar, expected to open in the revitalized Capitol Park area downtown this fall.
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If she leaves the marriage to escape domestic abuse and subsequently struggles to support her kids, is that bad luck or an accretion of bad choices?
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While Kansas State's fierce defense and superior athleticism played a major role in U.M.B.C.'s defeat, several Retrievers players pointed to good looks but bad luck.
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Among them is Ipah, who is already resigned to losing her dwelling, protected against bad luck by two diamond-shaped charms woven from young coconut leaves.
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That could level the playing field, so to speak, and bring favorites like Shiffrin back to the pack if they have bad luck with the elements.
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A few weeks back I wrote about Miami's bad luck, and it seems like regression to the mean in several categories has been their best friend.
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Their commercial hit, with its roiling guitar intro in a minor key, evokes a hazy New Orleans scene of gambling, prostitution, ill will, and bad luck.
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Despite some bad luck and some policymaking wounds across the major players, the leaders of the global economy can gather with at least some collective optimism.
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"It's either just random chance bad luck or there is something there, but we just don't have the science to pick it out yet," he said.
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But this year, Hamilton has made some driving errors as well as having bad luck with car breakdowns — notably in the Malaysian Grand Prix in October.
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Due to a combination of bad luck and poor decisions, the story of the 21st-century Democratic Party looks to be overwhelmingly the story of failure.
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In a related scandal, Mr. Morales said that he had fathered a child with the same girlfriend, but that after "bad luck" the baby died in 2007.
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Purportedly after serving Freya for seven years (a recurring number in luck/bad luck superstitions), the cats were rewarded for their service by being turned into witches.
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The cupola and its ambitions were destroyed due to a few poor business decisions and a lot of bad luck, long before Tesla could realize his dreams.
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Chhaupadi, which states that menstruating women must be kept separate to ward off bad luck, was banned by Nepal's Supreme Court in 2005 and criminalized in 2017.
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Prosecutors have targeted academics, human rights activists, and individuals who had the bad luck to open a savings account at a bank affiliated with the Gülen movement.
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Mr Palmer's mildly bad luck—or tendency to choke when a trophy was on the line, depending on one's interpretation—stems primarily from the 1966 U.S. Open.
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"To be sure we had really bad luck in the beginning of the week with Simon's horse... that helped us fight more," said French rider Kevin Staut.
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The prevailing idea about the development of a cancer is that genes randomly mutate in a healthy cell, perhaps from sun exposure, perhaps from simple bad luck.
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A small exhibition in the Antiquarium showcases stolen objects that visitors have sent back to Pompeii, claiming that the tiles, stones or figurines brought them bad luck.
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That fall appears to have sparked off a chain of bad luck for Zonderland as he again injured himself in the run-up to the Rio Games.
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"I thought my incident was a freak accident with really bad luck with the positioning, and that we'd be fine going back out there," Bourgeous told KSL.
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This is what haunts about Delonte West, and what is so painful about watching him thrash in the drowning confluence of his blessings and his bad luck.
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Recruit enough participants for good and bad luck to even out across the sample, and you can tell, with high confidence, which method—if any—is superior.
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" Sorvino explained that when she stopped getting as many calls for roles, she just assumed she had "had too many children" or it was simply "bad luck.
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Each of the all-time greats has had their share of good and bad luck—little of it as good as Mr Nadal's fortunes this past fortnight.
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We have a relationship outside of the office, and I was able to call her and vent about my bad luck with other topical medications and treatments.
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There are many reasons why innovators and entrepreneurs may lose everything they worked so hard for — personality clashes, mishandled finances, poor decision-making or just bad luck.
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But Texas Tech shook off its recent late-game bad luck and took down No. 4 Baylor 84-78 on Monday night at the United Supermarkets Arena.
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There is, for all the mistakes and bad luck and other annoying Mets-ian aspects, really nothing to feel but gratitude and a sort of bemused awe.
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The incident was such a crushing stroke of bad luck that one industry consultant has even hatched a conspiracy theory suggesting corporate sabotage may be at play.
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Green said that Coach Steve Kerr used the Clippers' bad luck as a teaching moment at Tuesday's practice: Nothing is promised, so take advantage of your opportunities.
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Though it has suffered a run of bad luck, Vallejo is eclectic and diverse in a way reminiscent of an older California, one before the tech boom.
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How can we get to a world where we cancel the worst effects of bad luck, given that some people are hugely lucky and some people aren't?
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He had the bad luck of picking up the target of an American drone strike: Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour, who was then leader of the Afghan Taliban.
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Maybe it was my stringy blond hair whipped into an Opie tangle, or maybe it was just bad luck that I was beat up more than most.
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Here's what it looks like to me: Brazil appears to have been hit by a perfect storm of bad luck and bad policy, with three main aspects.
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Even so, the finality of the doctor's recommendation was sobering for the Angels, a franchise often mired in bad luck aside from a lone championship in 2002.
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All I could think of that day is the picture on instagram with the caption " like this image or you'll have one whole week of bad luck".
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It's a game of unexpected twists and dense layers of possibility, where even bad luck atop bad decisions can lead to interesting scenarios rather than failure-spirals.
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Menstruating women are considered polluted, even toxic, and from the earliest age, people here are taught that any contact with a menstruating woman will bring bad luck.
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This is not to argue that his good luck will fail in 2017, but there are a number of places where bad luck could deal him significant blows.
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There's predation, ecological collapse, and disease, or as may have been the case with most critters around at the end of the Mesozoic era, plain cosmic bad luck.
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You know if you saw a black cat go across your path you would think, if you were superstitious, you are going to have a little bad luck.
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Part of it is due to Scott Coker's continuing commitment to being the P.T. Barnum of mixed martial arts, and part of it is just plain bad luck.
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The timing of the attack might seem like bad luck, but the weakness of MD24.8 had been known by hackers and security experts for more than a decade.
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Bar keep Barney Mutz (Michael Earl Reid) explains the bad luck the town has been having, and in the process, revealing exactly what happened to nearly everyone's husband.
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Dutch team mate Max Verstappen, meanwhile, is eager to end his run of bad luck, with five retirements in his last seven races and three in a row.
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But the animal's bad luck is a boon to researchers, because it was preserved almost entirely intact thanks to the prime fossilization conditions provided by that fateful muck.
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It has to be facing the shape of the 'U' because if it faces the other way it also is bad luck — that your luck will run out.
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For women like those who consented to relationships with Stein and believe they were blackballed after "the souring of their romance," I guess that is their bad luck.
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Fixed-income, currencies and commodities, the mysterious profit centre from which its chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, graduated, has had a rough stretch that reflects more than bad luck.
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But just as Eddie Alvarez found out after suffering some bad luck early in his UFC run, being exciting and being the best are not always directly linked.
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While attitudes vary across the archipelago, having a disabled child often brings shame and stigma, with some communities blaming a curse or bad luck due to past behavior.
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But I've also seen enough to know that Simmons' bad luck with the UFC and Dwyane Wade is representative of a larger, more pernicious issue with the show.
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Among all of the harmless things we as a culture associate with bad luck, the black cat stands out as both one of the most notorious and innocent.
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The Devils (3-2-2) outshot the Blackhawks 28-12 through two periods but Hynes refused to chalk up his team's loss to bad bounces or bad luck.
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His run of bad luck against the Celtics continued when he left the game late in the third quarter with a bruised left thigh and did not return.
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The latest bit of bad luck to hit the chain comes in the form of a tweet alleging that a customer found a chicken foot in her meal.
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It's a question that's long been debated among medical experts: How many cancers come from lifestyle habits and inherited genes and how many are from sheer bad luck?
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The problem is that this time, just like the other times in recent years, another team, or bad luck, or perhaps just fate, might get in the way.
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At the time, the Giants led the Cowboys 9-3, but many Cowboys players saw the moment as a sign of bad luck to come for the Giants.
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Doesn't it feel like voters simply like Kariya and feel sorry for the fact that he had the bad luck of playing at the same time as Stevens?
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I met her outside, already defeated by the day: a sleepless child, a lost wallet and the encroaching light paranoia induced by the morning's string of bad luck.
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Friday the 13th is usually reserved for fearing black cats, shattered mirrors, and murderers in hockey masks — but most of all, people associate the day with bad luck.
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By wishing bad luck and even betrayal for the students he addressed, he said he hoped listeners would learn the importance of justice, friendship, loyalty, sportsmanship and compassion.
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But a combination of stronger rivals, an excessively cautious racing approach and just plain bad luck thwarted his ambitions at the Tour, the world's most important cycling race.
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I guess the company just had some bad luck with the Cambridge Analytica scandal breaking right before it started rolling out all of its long-in-the-works fixes.
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"Divination is a sin," she was always saying — as a warning, as an explanation for her bad luck, and as a preface to all the stories about her father.
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At work I complained about my bad luck to my friend Mackenzie, and she said a lesbian friend of hers said that all the gay girls were on OkCupid.
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You know the story ... the curse was brought up every time the team came up short or had a bit of bad luck, getting the blame for their struggles.
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"At the moment he (Kvyat) has so much bad luck on the technical and sporting side, so it wouldn't be fair to judge at the moment," said the Austrian.
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Garcia got just one swing and miss on 54 pitches, but he also was victimized by bad luck as three of the 23 Diamondbacks' hits were seeing-eye jobs.
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Wherever I go for Covenant House, I see them, kids who had one stroke of bad luck, then the house of cards collapsed, leaving them to face homelessness alone.
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As bad luck would have it ... Donald says he got sick in September with an upper respiratory tract infection, severe sore throat as well as sinus and headache pains.
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It is what it is, but some tankers and artillerymen may see it as bad luck to not give their baby a name and troops can be particularly superstitious.
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But change comes hard, and perhaps it was the College Board's bad luck to ambitiously update a course so potentially political in an acridly partisan and culturally divided time.
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We were sure that this cursed calabash would bring bad luck to all the cows—those we no longer had, as well as those we might one day own.
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Still dressed in ratty clothes and yellow from turmeric, the groom's relatives rip off his clothing to bid goodbye to his single life and to ward off bad luck.
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If you're looking for evidence that the fire monkey — with its attendant bad luck — is already ascendant, you can find it in Xianfeng, a village in central Sichuan Province.
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The time machine returns one more time in the finale, as Leanne (Emma Myles) and Angie (Julie Lake) drunkenly decide that it's bad luck and tear it to bits.
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Ironically, Mother Nature has supplied two bits of bad luck, one in each country, that have made the Chinese attack on American farmers seem more effective than it is.
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Kluzak was a victim of bad luck, as knee injuries cost him the entire 1984-85 and 1986-87 seasons after knee problems plagued him during his junior career.
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It feels like simple bad luck on Villanelle's part rather than an error of judgment, which means that it's a plot twist rooted in circumstance rather than in character.
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The New York Giants were cruising on Monday night against the Dallas Cowboys until a black cat stormed the field and brought with it a spell of bad luck.
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In what would prove to be a streak of unusually bad luck, Mr. Rush's subsequent recordings, for respected blues labels like Chess and Delmark, were often unreleased or delayed.
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"This position is in no way connected with a wish for bad luck or failure for America," Yuri Krupnov, a Russian expert on Afghanistan, said of Russia's renewed interest.
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It's just her bad luck that she latched on to a guy too wrapped up in a kamikaze love affair to see how good she could be for him.
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The $2 bill which I still have to this day is a reminder to me no matter how much bad luck I may have the good will soon come.
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"She is an amazing person who has had a string of bad luck and if she loses her job it will be devastating to her," the GoFundMe page states.
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Garcia got just one swing and miss on 54 pitches, but he also was victimized by bad luck as three of the 10 Diamondbacks' hits were seeing-eye jobs.
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Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 7%Spectrum has the bad luck of premiering the two worst-reviewed reboots/revivals of 2019, with this "Bad Boys" spin-off suffering the worst.
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Individuals with self-attribution bias have a greater tendency to see positive outcomes as functions of their skills and abilities, and negative outcomes as the result of bad luck.
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It was just bad luck for the scarlet macaw and other species of Laguna del Tigre that their habitat, with its wide, shallow lakes, was also perfect for cattle.
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But, instead of spending the day dodging harbingers of "bad luck" (ladders, black cats, and cracks in the sidewalk come to mind), we suggest you pay attention to the moon.
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Over the course of the film, Cillian Murphy's Robert Capa and a crew of international actors are forced by bad luck and their own mistakes to make impossibly difficult decisions.
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But here is the conundrum: If bad luck exists and it is not your fault, so does good luck that has nothing to do with your efforts or actions either.
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For the show's first three episodes, it nicely hits the beats of a "wrong time, wrong place" story, where disaster is driven by the protagonists' bad luck and unfortunate coincidences.
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Some would call the cancer streak bad luck, but those of us who understand what it means to be black in America can easily identify it as something more complex.
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Weller's frustration doesn't derive entirely from his bad luck at cards, of course; as Fonsia draws him out, we learn of his disappointing career and less than fulfilled personal life.
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The master narrative of the end-of-times is not an event but a condition: Disaster becomes not sheer bad luck, but a fixed lens through which history is narrated.
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But poor planning and a bit of bad luck have left the airline with a shortage of working pilots, many of whom have now taken time off, for the autumn.
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"My dream is to play for Manchester United," the 32-year-old told reporters at a Germany news conference on Tuesday, reflecting on his bad luck with injuries last season.
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It was Mr. Loeb's bad luck — and, ultimately, Mr. Burke's even worse luck — that Mr. Loeb spotted a black duffel bag in a GMC Yukon that belonged to Mr. Burke.
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Planet has twice had the bad luck to see a flock of Doves fall to Earth from the fiery wreck of a failed launch, and lived to tell the tale.
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As she tells Bates, it's bad luck to get ahead of themselves, and she chants an old-school phrase, "bad harvest, bad harvest" to ward off any bad baby juju.
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Before Friday the 13th became associated with bad luck and the horror movie franchise that refuses to die, it used to be considered a powerful day for celebrating feminine energy.
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This week, Pablo and Alba quickly rekindle their fiery relationship decades after they last saw each other, but are the flames worth all the bad luck that follows Pablo around?
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Unlike other memes, like Bad Luck Bryan or the Ermahgerd Girl, both of which came from awkward middle school photos found by someone else, Morris put herself out there first.
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My dad, a Navy veteran and the most superstitious person I know, would throw salt over his shoulder to reverse bad luck, occasionally hitting a Denny's waiter in the face.
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Despite Mystery Brewing's earning national acclaim for brewing a fund-raising "protest beer" in dissent of North Carolina's contentious "bathroom bill," it closed in October, citing undercapitalization and bad luck.
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When it's not working right away, then it becomes a question of how long you can sustain this high-level performance before bad luck starts to lead to poorer performance.
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She interprets the flood as a terrifying natural disaster, just the latest stroke of bad luck in an already unlucky life, lived on the margins of an already poor country.
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Many of the people on my team have been homeless, or unable to support themselves, whether because of drug or alcohol addiction or just a long run of bad luck.
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But today doesn't have to be all bad luck — in fact, we had a lot of good luck in finding some killer deals on laptops and tablets for this weekend.
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"I'm worried that the population will get so small that, with more bad luck, we could lose the whole thing," says Lincoln Brower, a monarch expert at Sweet Briar College.
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Far from playing a negative game, they created enough chances to score a hatful of goals but were let down repeatedly by a mix of bad luck and poor finishing.
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But here is the conundrum: If bad luck exists and it is not your fault, so does good luck that has nothing to do with your efforts or actions either.
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The team departs the tournament in its first knockout-round game for the seventh straight World Cup — a stunning run of bad losses, bad matchups and just plain bad luck.
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A few months ago, it looked like a confluence of bad luck and internal party conflicts could leave the long-dominant Arizona Republican Party facing a disastrous situation in November.
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The fact that they still drew Bayern can be put down to genuine bad luck, even if the Bavarian behemoths are not quite as formidable as they have been previously.
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Team Trump's account is that it was a tremendously strange screw-up that, by sheer happenstance and bad luck, ended up looking far more incriminating than it in fact was.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I happened to run into the artist Tamara Kostianovsky when I visited Y Gallery recently to see her solo show, To Prevent Bad Luck.
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" In 20013's "Exodus 23:1" he pointed out to Drake: "You signed to one nigga that signed to another nigga / That's signed to three niggas, now that's bad luck.
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Last year it started to come together and it silenced some of the critics, but they're always right around the corner waiting for your next bad luck run so we'll see.
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"It brings a lot of concerns for us because if bad luck reaches one of the main water facilities, the water supplies for 133,000 - 500,000 people could be stopped," he said.
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"I think you're making a bit bigger a mountain out of a mole... thing," he told reporters when asked about breaking his 'run of bad luck' at the Monaco Grand Prix.
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But naturally, if you're playing this game for money, losing out of sheer bad luck—like, say, your opponent getting a Polymorph off of a Babbling Book—can be pretty upsetting.
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Maybe you've come across opal jewelry before and backed off because it's not your birthstone for the taking — and maybe you've heard it's bad luck to wear it if it's not.
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Three men from industries that control our culture, bullies and lecturers all, allegedly grabbing and groping whatever vulnerable woman, man or child might have the bad luck of catching their eye.
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After a string of bad luck, including getting stuck in a sand trap, Spirit stopped communicating with NASA, likely because it lacked the energy to ward off cold hardware-wrecking temperatures.
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The Badgers began conference play 1-4, and while close losses to Maryland, Indiana, and Northwestern could be attributed to bad luck, Wisconsin simply didn't look like a very talented team.
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Taking charge of our gut health can lead not just to better overall health but it can make chronic diseases a matter of choice and not a matter of bad luck.
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" Here is the transcript of the conversation on Tuesday: Lord Chamberlain: "Can I present Commander Lucy D'Orsi, who was Gold Commander during the Chinese state visit…" Queen Elizabeth: "Oh, bad luck.
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Days before the new year, families undertake a total home purge, scrubbing down every nook and cranny in hopes of sweeping out bad luck and welcoming the future with open arms.
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In a short race, anyone can make a ruinous mistake (lose an edge, hook a tip, choose the wrong line) or encounter bad luck (equipment malfunction, snow squall, gust of wind).
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Before you eat the cost (but please not the bug-ridden mangos) and chalk it up to bad luck, take a moment to figure out how to get your money back.
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When I saw doctors about my difficulties, I was told off for wasting their time or misdiagnosed with a host of things, including generalized anxiety disorder and (my favorite) bad luck.
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Hohenhaus: I think that black cats are bad luck for themselves, because they don't get adopted from a shelter as readily as a pretty gray cat or a flashy tricolor cat.
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"I'm not sure if we want a product that is based on taking advantage of bad luck or bad planning to play such an important role in the market," he said.
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Of course, A-Rod used to play for the Yankees ... but last night, he was bad luck -- the Yankees lost to the Sox 5-4, snapping the 8-game winning streak.
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It's still considered an artwork of bad luck, some say cursed, and is draped in a Union Jack flag during tests where it hangs at the University of London's Royal Holloway.
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Surely, they argue, this isn't just a coincidental string of bad luck; the couple must be going out of their way to assign blame, seeking out these lawsuits for monetary benefits.
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Mourinho could also point, with some justification, to bad luck: United has developed an unhappy habit of missing chances, as well as an intense, magnetic relationship with sundry posts and crossbars.
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The Flames simply dominated the first 10 minutes of the affair and could have salted it away early if not for Alex Stalock in the Wild net — and some bad luck.
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"I don't want to hide behind bad luck, but the reality appears to be true, that the conditions in the Southern Ocean are changing and the weather is stronger," McIntyre said.
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"The framing of this tragedy as bad luck serves only to give [us] permission to shrug our shoulder and lament that there is really nothing to be done," said Karen of Phoenix.
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They kept their pregnancy a secret until the second trimester "because it is bad luck to announce too early" Princess said in her Instagram caption of the baby bump later that day.
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If you decide you'd like to send someone money this Lunar New Year, just make sure that the amount doesn't include the number four, since it's bad luck, according to Chinese myth.
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Tauruses often have good luck around connecting with people who are generous — but sometimes, you can have the bad luck of connecting with people who are full of shit, gamblers, and deadbeats.
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He's an avatar of bad luck, a reminder of Romania's miserable history, not least the ruinous large-scale Ponzi scheme that wiped out much of the country's meager wealth in the 1990s.
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We talked to Barnes about DC's morale during his big day ... and while Matt says he's sure the guy is frustrated about the recent bad luck, Cousins didn't show it on Saturday.
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Tiffany's Peter Schneirla told EW that an opal is an "unusual" choice for an engagement ring, except when it is a birthstone, because opals have a long reputation for bringing bad luck.
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If you really can't shake the idea that Friday the 13th is intrinsically linked to bad luck, take comfort in knowing that it'll coincide with the partial solar eclipse this time around.
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The more realistic causes for the Azzurri's early World Cup exit are bad luck and poor management—though the biggest culprit on the latter charge is probably not the most obvious one.
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At the behest of his father (Bill Nighy) Tim resolves to use time travel to solve his bad luck with dating and falls in love with Mary (Rachel McAdams) in the process.
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It took an unholy confluence of force, angle of the stick, and pressure points to lop off a part of Methot's digit, but it also took a great deal of bad luck.
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The spike in inflation and rise in interest rates have weighed on the economy, but in addition to the financial storm, Argentina has been hit by some bad luck beyond Macri's control.
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She had the bad luck to appear after Anil Kapoor, the garrulous Indian movie star, but she seemed entirely at ease, chatting with the Indian Ambassador about economic partnership and security coöperation.
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The lucky, like Mr. Wu, had to give up something essential in order to advance in the world, because a person of good luck could become a person of bad luck overnight.
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A quirk: Hotel 50 Bowery has no 13th or 14th floor, as the former is, of course, considered bad luck in many countries across the globe, and the latter, a Chinese superstition.
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"The perception will be that Samsung is not just the victim of a bit of bad luck but actually has faulty quality control processes, which is a lot more damaging," Dawson said.
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He speculated that the Israeli rabbi was perhaps not as "illuminated" as some of Rome's rabbis, and had had the bad luck of cutting into an infested, and clearly non-Roman, artichoke.
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Besides being an "eyesore," per the Times, the banner has also ushered in years of bad luck for the franchise ... not having won a playoff series since it went up in 2015.
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Downhearted and scared, Tairo takes to the road in search of Mr. Robin while Wendy, the circus's contortionist, seeks a variety of mild occult solutions to Tairo's seeming streak of bad luck.
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It's about getting older and seeing your loved ones die long before you — some of age, but more of disease and bad luck and negligence at the hands of an unfeeling country.
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Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer are back for Season 4, starring as 20-something New Yorkers who breeze through their millennial lives, despite the city's many frustrations and their laughable bad luck.
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Bad welding, bad parts, bad engineering and bad luck can all play a role in such failures — as it did in the United States' own missile program, particularly in its early days.
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Tamara Kostianovsky's To Prevent Bad Luck continues at Y Gallery (319 Grand Street, 5th floor, Lower East Side, Manhattan) through March 26 (Note: the show has now been extended through April 2).
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Thanks to a long string of injuries, illnesses, and all-around bad luck, the flyweight star has been kept on the shelf since January 31 of 2015, now more than two years ago.
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"An understanding of cancer risk that did not take bad luck into account would be as inappropriate as one that did not take environmental or hereditary factors into account," Nowak and Waclaw wrote.
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"But what I loved about him towards the end was his incredible privacy during what must have been 10 years of incredible bad luck battling with illnesses, heart attacks, cancer, whatever," John explained.
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There are a few heavy-handed signposts — it's bad luck to kill a sea bird — and we couldn't be more obvious with the juvenile boom up the lighthouse to the Mary Poppins weathervane.
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A more plausible hypothesis might be that Friday the 13th itself doesn't cause bad luck, but it does lead people to behave differently out of fear or anxiety, thereby causing things like accidents.
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"I didn't want to think that it was meant to harm any person, that it was just an accident or bad luck," Ahlberg told BuzzFeed News during an interview in Gothenburg in March.
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Another found love in a grief group, only to find out that the man was horribly demeaning and all they really shared was the incredible bad luck that brought them to the group.
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"We've had bad luck the last few games, but I feel like as a whole, our team's hitting, our offense is producing and our pitching has been doing a great job," Thames said.
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"When one member of the team got injured, it started a chain of bad luck as the others were left really shaken and then they just panicked," the 54-year-old Comaneci said.
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So, is it "just bad luck" that a young man who has been using his phone for hours every day since age 8 is diagnosed with a deadly brain cancer at age 23?
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At the beginning of Season 5, the long-suffering Sansa had the look of a young woman ready to leave her bad luck and bad marriages behind and move on to better things.
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Back home, it was too much for TV viewers who blame Chavez and his followers for a collapsed economy, and they went online to say the revolutionary's eyes had brought her bad luck.
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"I think it's helped a little bit, but I still think you're seeing the fact that there is a residual effect of playing that deep, and we've had some bad luck," Collins said.
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But as his life was taking off, his half sister's was going in the opposite direction, a snowballing misery of bad choices, bad luck and, most of all, a losing battle with drugs.
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If somebody in the family or village gets sick, or if someone experiences some type of misfortune, they can accuse their foes of using dark magic, a juju, to cause their bad luck.
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Not even bad luck of its own, like a blunder that handed Croatia a second goal late in the game and cut the French lead to two goals, came with any real price.
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The most delightful aspect of the book is the characterization of the Chinese — their expletive-ridden insults, downbeat perspective ("Bad luck is always hiding inside the doorway, down the next hutong"), and quirks.
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Dave Martinez signed on as their fourth manager in that span, but the Nationals' problem in escaping the first round of the postseason just might be their players — or plain old bad luck.
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The film opens with a girl participating in a ceremony with a Juju priest who, we later learn, is essentially ensnaring her — making her think that disobedience in Europe will bring bad luck.
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There are rituals that help usher in a better and brighter new year, like sweeping the house on New Year's Eve to get rid of bad luck and make room for good luck.
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It is one of the great Grand Slam Cinderella stories, and Cecchinato, who has a tattoo of the number 13, is clearly one who can see opportunity where others might see bad luck.
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Morrow responded to the bad luck by walking Alex Bregman on four pitches, but then he struck out Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa to end the inning and get out of the mess.
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Paul Davis, a nerdy professor at West Haven College in Connecticut, has the bad luck to come across Kenneth Hoffman, a fellow faculty member, trying to dispose of the bodies of two women.
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"I went back home every year and they didn't improve," he said, recalling all the years of failure and of the Peruvian national teams that did play good soccer but had bad luck.
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"This is a microcosm of life, and you have to move on," Manager Joe Girardi said when asked before Friday's game if he wondered when the bad luck and bad results might stem.
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The Yankees have had particularly bad luck with their top draft picks, going back to Andrew Brackman, who was signed for $3.5 million in 2007 and then almost immediately had Tommy John surgery.
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Even without that additional work, Mr. Lightfoot announced that the launch date has slipped again, to 2019 from the previous target of November 2018, because of various technical challenges and some bad luck.
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It was a generally quiet training session until Osborne-Paradis lost control coming into the 'Fishnet' section of the layout, a crash he blamed on a combination of bad luck and "driver error".
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One insider at a Chinese property company insisted, however, that investors coming from the world's second-largest economy have just had a stroke of "bad luck" in shouldering the blame for market forces.
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It was a generally quiet training session until Osborne-Paradis lost control coming into the 'Fishnet' section of the layout, a crash he blamed on a combination of bad luck and "driver error".
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This was one of the few buildings in the city to be built without the advice of a feng shui expert, and its diagonal bracing and sharp edges are still considered bad luck.
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Edut recommends tending to your sources of bad luck ASAP, so that you feel at least a little less burdened by the new moon (the lunar equivalent to a clean slate) on October 19.
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Alcohol, oh, that's everywhere, so I just had a little bad luck getting caught driving a little intoxicated.... This program... everybody's trying to go home, everybody's trying to work on their problems, their behaviors.
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" Sorvino explained during an appearance on Today last month that when she stopped getting as many calls for roles, she just assumed she had "had too many children" or it was simply "bad luck.
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The "wrong place, wrong time" story necessarily robs the characters of their agency — they're only in danger because of bad luck — until they choose to do whatever it takes to get out of danger.
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Here are five things everyone should know about black cats: In some cultures, black cats are good luck In the United States, many people believe black cats bring bad luck or are altogether evil.
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If you're noticing a string of unusually good or bad luck, mood swings from you or others, or just the general sense that things around you are going to hell, it's not just you.
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Team breakups, running out of capital before finding product-market fit, failing to scale, simple bad luck and plenty of other company-killing pitfalls are just more prevalent when startups are, well, starting up.
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Shepherd Book knows more about the criminal underworld than a preacher should, the mercenary Jayne Cobb is trigger-happy, and the crew's constant bad luck lands them further and further into debt with criminals.
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A similar phenomenon has been plaguing Arizona's Petrified Forest National Park for decades, according to Ryan Thompson and Phil Orr who wrote Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters and Photographs From the Petrified Forest.
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Given how ruthlessly competitive esports is, teams are incentivised to drop players if they are underperforming, and even skilled players are fearful of stagnation, bad luck, or tilting undermining their status as paid players.
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These days, that description could easily apply to Mexico's vaquita, a tiny porpoise with the bad luck of having evolved in a cul-de-sac at the north end of the Gulf of California.
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When the Warriors were looking to wrap up their first-round series against the Houston Rockets last week, Coach Steve Kerr pointed to the Clippers' bad luck as an example for his own team.
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So, either astronomers' theories of why Jupiter is blessed with so many heavy elements are wrong, or else, by sheer bad luck, Galileo's probe dropped into a particularly dry part of the planet's atmosphere.
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Joseph Muiruri, the taxi driver, who had the bad luck of driving the two after they left court two weeks ago, had been badly beaten as well, finished off with a length of rope.
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Following the slew of bad luck and resultant injuries, the UFC accepted defeat and rebranded the show as a Fight Night card to be broadcast on FOX Sports rather than on Pay-Per-View.
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So what markets have right is that this is shaping up to be a perilous time for the economy, in which bad luck or bad policy could easily create a major slowdown or recession.
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Year on year, it sequentially compares the likelihood that a doctor's high mortality rates are a run of bad luck with something more suspicious, and raises an alarm once the evidence starts to build.
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He had some bad luck, too — an infield grounder that turned into a costly single and a little flare to right field that drove in the first two of the four runs he surrendered.
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"There are a lot of very eminent people who have many advantages," he says, "and they've got one little flaw or one bit of bad luck and they're mired in misery all their lives."
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"I want to go ahead and dispel the myth that this is somehow a one-off — that this was just a bad-luck incident from an otherwise sound department," Merritt told the Dallas News.
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Even well-positioned Americans now struggle under debilitating pressures, and a majority inhabit a treacherous Wild West where poverty, homelessness, medical bankruptcy, addiction and incarceration can be just a bit of bad luck away.
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But Unite America is the latest third-party effort to learn how difficult it is, for reasons ranging from bad luck to strict ballot-access laws, to lay the building blocks for sustained success.
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Sometimes, this initial phase is cut short by bad luck and sudden violence, which tends to erupt in the most unseemly ways; ill-prepared teams bumbling into one another and having nasty, brutish, short firefights.
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Given that Friday the 13th is just an artifact of our Gregorian calendar and there's no known mechanism through which it could cause bad luck, the data wasn't strong enough to support such a claim.
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While fortune finally favoured the triple world champion after a run of bad luck, championship leader Rosberg finished seventh — 93.2 seconds behind — and saw his lead cut to 24 points after six of 21 races.
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"Generally, the year of your birth is known to be a more difficult year than others," Lau says, explaining that your birth year may present you with a string of bad luck or additional hardships.
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And all it took was a $300 million government contract, a bit of greed, and a whole lot of bad luck for the otherwise unknown story to come crashing into the public eye in 2007.
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The Rubins must navigate New Jersey as well as a thousand superstitions from back home: It's bad luck to whistle inside, to shake hands across the threshold, to count money that hasn't come in yet.
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Every birthstone is special in its own way — opals are said to be bad luck for anyone other than October-borns; June's pearls represent love and success, and April babies are #blessed to have diamonds.
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So yeah, his family's had a pretty extreme run of bad luck, but it's only a coincidence that the towering slabs of avant-metal noise and tortured sax notes he creates suggest a pained soul.
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No matter how much they all may resent each other, it still feels more likely to me that Dory's downfall came about thanks to some messy bad luck, the same way their messy murder did.
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To say that Ghanaians with albinism are stigmatized is an understatement: Some believe their presence is a sign of bad luck, leading their parents to avoid acknowledging them or even to try to kill them.
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He had sold his fishing boat when he started his dolphin-watching business, but the buyer had bad luck and one night went down to the pub and impulsively put the boat up for sale.
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Sometimes, after a poor move or just some plain bad luck, you'll find yourself staring blankly for some time, wondering why you're playing this game and what arcane, dark spell has been cast over you.
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He ranks, swiftly and confidently, the bad luck of Brad Pitt characters' love interests, the best post-1997 rom-com performances by actors not named Julia Roberts, the most unexpected onscreen guitar performances, and more.
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Representative Todd Rokita, who had the bad luck to refer to Trump as "vulgar" when he was supporting Marco Rubio in 2016, is now desperately running ads promising to help the president drain the swamp.
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For hours, he held forth on how the devastating yearslong drought, as bad as it was, had been made all the worse by a perfect storm of bad luck, bad planning and rampant population growth.
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If Sabathia was a victim of bad luck last season — his 9-12 record belied his 3.91 earned run average, the second-best of any Yankees starter — then Tuesday provided an auspicious start to 2017.
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In wonkspeak, this is "social insurance" that provides everyone with security against the risk of their retirement savings evaporating due to bad luck or unexpectedly long lifespan with a small amount of redistribution tacked on.
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Because there are so many things that can stymie a launch — from bad timing to bad welding to bad luck — some of Iran's troubles, aerospace experts warned, could well be the result of normal malfunctions.
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Old myths say that pulling your own cards and buying your own tarot deck brings bad luck — but many people now discount these myths, saying that these practices can be beneficial to yourself and to others.
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It was Wright's bad luck that he appeared before a judge who was hostile to him from the start, and that he had to face a grueling cross-examination by one of Britain's most brilliant prosecutors.
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Myths about the felines being bad luck, mean or even scary haven't been easy for the felines to shed, and that's why #BlackCatAppreciationDay was created, to show the world just how awesome these kitties really are.
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If you have the bad luck to buy a house in a declining neighborhood — or at the peak of a housing bubble, like in 2007 — you could wind up having your home equity totally wiped out.
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Though we typically think of it as a new affliction attributed to bad habits, bad luck or longevity, a surprising discovery has revealed that the disease existed in human ancestors more than a million years ago.
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"A lot of other runners and viewers at the time considered my run to be close to unbeatable, despite the slight bad luck the run had," she told VICE, adding there's a friendly rivalry between them.
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Years and years of that kind of 'bad luck,' as well as just being an introvert who doesn't particularly like a lot of the things people do to meet new people, means I've basically given up.
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Like pretty much everyone involved in cycling, Wegelius anticipates that Chris Froome of Team Sky is likely to win his third Tour — with the usual caveats that he avoids crashing, illness or just plain bad luck.
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In recent years, the effect of cutting taxes and spending has been to distribute income upward and leave the least well-off more vulnerable to bad luck, globalization, "disruptive innovation," and the vagaries of business cycles.
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Most illness and disability is due not to choice but to bad luck and bad circumstances — the accidents of birth and life, including genes, economic and social factors, workplace conditions, and exposure to infection and toxins.
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Thiem thrashed his racket with several thwacks into the hard surface as Fritz raced to a 3-25 lead, punishing the bad-luck court after a Fritz forehand dribbled over the net cord for a winner.
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For starters, there's the random geographical bad luck that the altitude of the state's six most populous cities exceeds 3,000 feet, the elevation at which blood oxygen levels go down and suicide stats go way up.
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Poor Penn, known among Kansas City Chiefs fans as "Bad Luck Chuck," has been unofficially banned from future Chiefs games by superstitious fans -- and star quarterback Patrick Mahomes -- who worry his presence could forebode a loss.
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The more compelling story lines belong to Charlie Creed-Miles as George, a mild-mannered cabdriver who seems a magnet for bad luck, and Franz Drameh as Kingsley, a small-time drug dealer with literary aspirations.
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Warhol, Dr. Walsh said in a phone interview, "was unlucky," but the artist's bad luck should be thought of as less like a lightning strike than like being hit by a car while crossing the street.
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Tiger Woods, for example, seems to be in perpetual partial comeback from one injury or another in recent years, a result perhaps of bad luck and the increased injury risk of athletes who specialize extremely early.
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Their problem, in Blake's telling, isn't that they've had a run of bad luck or bad sales leads — or that the real estate they're trying to sell is crap — it is that they aren't real men.
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In effect, it came down to chance: an Asian citizen who'd had the good luck to find a lenient representative of the Naturalization Bureau then had the bad luck to be found by a strict one.
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This seemed like a waste of McGeary's time, but he was the big name on the card and it was good of him to stay in when he had such bad luck in losing two opponents.
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Aldridge was still their best player—and made more baskets than anyone else in the league during the 2014-15 season—but bad luck and unfortunate timing once again kept the Blazers from reaching their full potential.
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In other words, the fact that the Fed constantly has to delay interest rate hikes in response to bad economic news isn't just a matter of bad luck — it's partly a result of the Fed's own actions.
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Politicians flirted with the notion off and on through the industrial revolution but generally built welfare states along different lines: as programmes of insurance for those who, because of age or bad luck, found themselves without work.
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At the party, the queen, widely considered a paragon of decorum, was expressing sympathy with Ms. D'Orsi over difficulties the policewoman had experienced, saying it was "bad luck" that she had had to deal with the officials.
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"Never trust nobody, IRC is bad luck when you chat too much," the duo sings, referring to the popular chat protocol used by countless hackers over the years, including those who were part of Anonymous and Lulzsec.
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The woman he's asking is Bianca Lind (Noomi Rapace), an employee at a bank in central Stockholm, who has the bad luck to be present when Kaj swaggers in, machine gun at the ready, for a holdup.
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The season premiere has Brandon (Jason Mitchell) trying to focus on his taco truck, but as often happens on "The Chi," a combination of violence, systemic oppression and just plain bad luck keep getting in his way.
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Ellen D. MurphyPortland, Me. To the Editor: After paying for pricey seats to see "An American in Paris" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," I had the bad luck both times to be seated next to cellphone offenders.
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The Rangers have endured injuries, scheduling difficulties and plain old bad luck — as when Sidney Crosby's shot bounced off the back of Henrik Lundqvist's head and into the goal early in a shootout defeat on March 31.
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I call B. having an absolute panic attack about my bleeding hand and my bad luck tonight (I know these are first world problems, and people have much harder things to deal with, but I am upset).
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"We were just lucky there and wound up dodging and weaving and being in the right place, so maybe that makes up for the bad luck on losing the race with an absolute dominant car," Harvick said.
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We've seen example after example of how the human element of this enterprise harms and damages its progress, through incompetence, fraud, selfishness, prejudice, or the simple combination of an honest oversight or slip with plain bad luck.
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As indifferent to other people's lives as they are careless of their own, they aimlessly wander the blank American landscape wedded to bad luck and grasping after worse luck as if it were their last hope on earth.
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And in a response statement the company claims it's "working relentlessly to ensure the transparency, safety and security" of people who use its service (so bad luck if you're one of those non-users it also tracks then).
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And in a stroke of bad luck for Kavanaugh, the drunken antics of his social circle happen to be recounted in two books Judge wrote: Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk, and God and Man at Georgetown Prep.
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While injury prediction models still lag behind and bad luck will intermittently reign, league schedulers should redouble their efforts to assess risk and interventions should be deployed to encourage more multi-sport athletes at the high school level.
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New York scored three runs in each of the first two innings against Kluber (0-3), although about half of those runs were the result of some freakishly good luck for the Mets and bad luck for Cleveland.
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REVEL, France (Reuters) - Michael Matthews turned the page on years of bad luck in the Tour de France to complete his set of grand tour victories when he won the 10th stage after a royal breakaway on Tuesday.
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I'd argue that it has as much to do with bad fit (only one of the two guys really had a personality) and bad luck (the Caps and Pens only met in the playoffs once in a decade).
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The EPA also assumed that every death attributable to lung or heart disease at any age (whether those conditions were caused by air pollution, smoking, or plain bad luck) is "premature"—once again leading to dramatically overstated benefits.
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The findings challenge the results of a 21 report in the journal Science that attributed many cancers simply to the bad luck of mutations during cell division, according to the authors of the new report in JAMA Oncology.
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In truth, it is an indictment of the policy, revealing that taxing those with the bad luck to die was an idea spawned by tyrannical regimes whose essential business model was the conquering and enslavement of other peoples.
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There is no real evolutionary penalty for failing to ward off the ravages of old age, because in animal populations relatively few individuals make it into their geriatric years anyway, thanks to predators, disease, hardship or bad luck.
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"This is not surprising when you consider the bad luck of a hurricane going into that vicinity and sea level rise already sort of deemed the stressor in the background for these ecosystems," Fletcher told Honolulu Civil Beat.
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Male-to-female transgender people, also known as "hijras" or "kinners", often beg, sell their bodies for sex or extract money from families celebrating a birth or marriage by threatening to curse them with infertility or bad luck.
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The directorate also got rid of the rainbow packs of Charms candies that were tucked in to some packets: the candies rated well in taste tests, but many Marines considered them bad luck and refused to eat them.
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In other words, access to bankruptcy not only benefits specific debtors, it boosts the overall economy by encouraging a robust financial system and ensuring that people who fail or experience bad luck can move on with their lives.
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At least I'm not in the bridal party (it's bad luck for pregnant women to be bridesmaids in her culture, so I happily told her I would sit this one out because my husband and I were trying).
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Some of it is down to bad luck, Hamilton's genius and the rise of Ferrari and Red Bull as challengers in the toughest season yet for Mercedes as the team to beat, but there were also painful mistakes.
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What Twisted Sister definitely shared, for a time, with Spinal Tap was freakishly persistent bad luck, extending to one executive promising to sign the band to a record deal, and then dying on a plane home mere hours later.
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They included a farmer who was plagued with bad luck, even though his crop consisted of four-leaf clovers, and the owner of a paper-clip factory whose idea of efficiency was paying his workers 21982 cents a week.
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Describing the incident as the "craziest experience of my life" and an "awful night with a lot of bad luck and some even worse decisions," the rapper doubled down on how grateful he felt to have avoided jail time.
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Elvis Andrus of the Texas Rangers picked the viral "Baby Shark" song as his walk-up music for games at GlobeLife Park this season and will keep it as long as it doesn't result in bad luck, of course.
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The first half of "Bad Luck" is a typically upbeat, defiant punk song, but halfway through the tempo slows, their voices become sweeter, and they swerve into a mock pop version of the same song, complete with oohing harmonies.
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The Hazel Wood By Melissa AlbertOut January 20Alice is 17 and, alongside her mother, has spent most of her life on the road, trying to stay a step ahead of the bad luck that seems to follow them everywhere.
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On the one hand, The Big Bang Theory's apparently endless existence feels like a tough pill to swallow when so many other, better series have seen their lifespans cut short by pitiful ratings, creative differences, or sheer bad luck.
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Though most cancers are due to bad luck, people should not ignore sound public health advice that can help people avoid preventable cancers, including maintaining a healthy weight and avoiding environmental risk factors such as smoking, the team said.
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Also, it bears mentioning that this new flavor is being released in honor of the Frappuccino's 20th birthday, and my mom always taught me that it's bad luck not to eat birthday cake (or, in this case, drink it).
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A new report out this month from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) makes it clearer than ever that this dynamic of workers falling behind is not some kind of statistical aberration or case of bad luck.
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Days of bad luck The date is best known as the day in 0003 BC when Julius Caesar was stabbed in the back, front and practically everywhere else on the body in one of ancient Rome's most gruesome assassinations.
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Suffering from a combination of bad luck and crippling defensive errors, the Predators parlayed a 40-43 advantage in shots on goal into a 6-3 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Thursday night at sold-out Bridgestone Arena.
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SUZUKA, Japan (Reuters) - Lewis Hamilton's engine problems are down to bad luck and "anybody with an ounce of intelligence" knows Mercedes did not sabotage the Briton's car in Malaysia last weekend, team technical head Paddy Lowe said on Friday.
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Jacob Faria will go for his fourth straight victory to open his major-league career for Tampa Bay and he will oppose fellow right-hander Dylan Bundy, who has been Baltimore's best starter despite pitching in some bad luck.
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One of its first movies, "Luck," directed by Alessandro Carloni ("Kung Fu Panda 3") and aimed toward theatrical release by Paramount in 2021, explores a world where secret organizations called Good Luck and Bad Luck secretly control people's lives.
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In a sense, the movie is a portrait of multiple sets of foolhardy expeditioners, scientists who dream of doing the impossible and hunters who search for mammoth remains despite a longstanding superstition that finding them will bring bad luck.
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Would you be willing to take health care away from a thousand children with the bad luck to have been born into low-income families so that you could give millions of extra dollars to just one wealthy heir?
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In other words, access to bankruptcy not only benefits specific debtors, it boosts the overall economy by both encouraging a robust financial system and ensuring that people who fail or experience bad luck can move on with their lives.
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WHEN members of a private club in Manhattan suddenly start dropping dead at an alarming rate, Matt Scudder, a private detective, suspects more might be at play than bad luck to explain the bizarre series of suicides and violent accidents.
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Though much Brutalist architecture is currently threatened, I must return to the more extreme artistic and social vision of the Neapolitan architects, who have had, obviously, bad luck with their buildings but at least they are still more or less extant.
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Sometimes this deliberate pacing and thoughtfulness gives way to a relaxing sense of success and freedom, but at other times it continues to build into a nail-biting crisis as one small misjudgment or stroke of bad luck creates another.
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The company's narrow focus on the performance running category is a strategy CEO Jim Weber put in place when he took the helm 53 years ago, and it appears to be paying off after a rocky stretch of bad luck.
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"People say the turtle's death is bad luck, and a way for the gods to show that something's about to happen," said Nguyen Thien Hung, the caretaker of the Vu Thach Buddhist temple, which lies a few steps from the lake.
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Thanks to a combination of bad luck and good faith, Gabriel found himself stuck inside a trailer with Negan (and Lucille), which was somehow only the second crappiest part of his situation — there was a horde of walkers rapidly encroaching, too.
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Queen Elizabeth, the Clone-Loving BitchAs he revealed on Facebook in 2011, Donald Marshall, a clone himself, is an otherwise normal guy who had the bad luck of finding himself in a so-called "cloning station" run by Queen Elizabeth.
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Throughout its run, The Americans has always had its characters stop to debrief each other on the particulars of one mission or another, or even just a slightly strange interaction that could, with a stroke of bad luck, mean disaster.
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Male-to-female transgender people, also known as hijras, often beg, sell their bodies for sex or extract money from families celebrating the birth of a child or a marriage by threatening to curse them with infertility or bad luck.
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It sounds like truly extraordinary bad luck — a one-in-three-billion shot — but the power of evolution means that it's entirely predictable: Inside the tumor, cancer rolls a pair of dice, over and over, until they come up snake eyes.
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Truex showed that in a big way Sunday night, leading a Nascar-record 588 miles to win the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway — and break free of the bad luck that seemed to hit him when dominating races.
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At the tactical level, professionals deal in dangerous and uncertain circumstances with a mix of judgment, gut instinct, and agreed procedures or standard operating procedures, while disasters happen through bad luck, erroneous judgment, and either inadequate or badly implemented procedures.
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The Evil Eye or al-ayn (simply "the eye" in Arabic) is a curse that is said to cause harm in varying degrees, from miniscule annoyances, to making one's fortune dissolve, to igniting a string of bad luck—whatever that entails.
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It's also because after winning the title each of the past two years ahead of his Mercedes teammate, Nico Rosberg, Hamilton, 31, has suddenly had more bad luck and errors this season than in all his previous nine seasons combined.
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Given the personnel choices he made (lane-inhabiting big men in a league more into exploiting perimeter skills), along with some bad luck with injuries, Hinkie's critics would now argue the mountain clock would cease ticking before the 76ers' ever began.
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Unfortunately, these books have the bad luck to be competing with Wallace's own STRING THEORY (Library of America, $2643), a just-released collection of five nonfiction pieces he wrote for various publications, including Tennis magazine, where I edited him (not much).
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Unfortunately, these books have the bad luck to be competing with Wallace's own "String Theory" (Library of America, $19.95), a just-released collection of five nonfiction pieces he wrote for various publications, including Tennis magazine, where I edited him (not much).
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While it is illegal to take anything from the Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, there is a legend that says that anyone who takes pieces of petrified wood from the park will be cursed with bad luck, sickness, and accidents.
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Sixty-seven-year-old Goldman, from Los Angeles, is among the more than 160 Americans confirmed to have been infected with the novel coronavirus, and he is doing his best to take the stroke of bad luck in his stride.
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The podcasters urge their listeners to experiment with fitness routines, diets, non-Western medicine, meditation and other "biohacks" to think more clearly, sleep more soundly and achieve professional success — and to quit blaming other people or bad luck for their problems.
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Parent visited Garretson at the house the night of August 8 in order to try to sell him a small clock; through total bad luck, he was driving out of the gated residence the moment the Manson Family members entered.
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