If that sounds like a stroke of good fortune, it is not.
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To the vendor and the city, this was a stroke of good fortune.
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At its birth, serendipity meant a skill rather than a random stroke of good fortune.
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Then, by a stroke of good fortune, a door inside him opened to a different future.
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That no one was killed was a remarkable stroke of good fortune when the magnitude of the explosion became clearer.
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In a double stroke of good fortune, Meghan Trainor not only found her dream guy, but also her dream wedding gown.
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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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For the latter, having its headquarters in Silicon Valley — Facebook headquarters is a mile away — was a stroke of good fortune for Exponent.
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That was a stroke of good fortune, Dr. Lazzaro said, because it meant the tumors were found early, before they had a chance to spread.
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Amid a desperate situation Friday in which hundred of thousands of ransomware attacks pelted computers in nearly 100 countries, one stroke of good fortune hit, too.
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A New Jersey couple that recently lost their daughter to a chronic autoimmune disease received a stroke of good fortune as they help raise their three grandchildren.
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A stroke of good fortune prevented the hackers from obtaining operational control of the flood gates because the dam had been manually disconnected for routine maintenance, she said.
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Too often, the truth — that success of the moment is a one-off, as much a stroke of good fortune as of genius — is lost amid the noise.
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However, our sources say there's also the possibility Ronnie will only be charged with misdemeanor DV ... which would be an even bigger stroke of good fortune for him.
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The performance enabled them to draft pass rusher Nick Bosa, a stroke of good fortune that has contributed to Kyle Shanahan's long-awaited breakout as a head coach.
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In a further stroke of good fortune, nature has conspired to make eclipses rare enough to be noteworthy but common enough that a motivated individual can see plenty in a lifetime.
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While there she had another stroke of good fortune: She was spotted by a vacationing Disney executive who recruited her to join the "Lion King" production that has been running in Germany for 212 years.
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If you&aposre an up-and-coming exec at Davos, swapping WhatsApp messages with the friendly potentate you sat next to at breakfast is no longer the obvious stroke of good fortune it once seemed.
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So it seemed like a surprising stroke of good fortune when he found out he was one of only a handful of employees given the option to transfer to a different facility further down the road.
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But we found out later that it was a real stroke of good fortune that we even got in because Pop Montreal isn't in the business to populate their festival with random bands that send in their demo CDs.
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"Every now and then I will somehow, by some stroke of good fortune, get on board with something that is vaguely of the moment and I'm poised to throw down with our 11-year-old, and he is inevitably incredibly impressed," Hermann says.
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But 70 percent of the foreigners who come in are Korean, Mr. Freyburger said, and he chalked it up to a single stroke of good fortune: A South Korean journalist living in Paris happened to give the pharmacy a positive mention in a blog post in 2007.
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One stroke of good fortune came from impresario Savva Mamontov, who two years earlier had founded the Moscow Private Russian Opera Company. He offered Rachmaninoff the post of assistant conductor for the 1897-8 season, which the composer accepted. He also acted as a soloist in many concerts.Harrison, 84-85.
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They then came back a third time on April 25, in the very early morning and began to demolish the building with an excavator machine. The confrontation was filmed. In a stroke of good fortune, none of the people sleeping in the building were harmed. The police were called and eventually defused the situation.
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Phi Sigma Epsilon narrowly voted in favor of the merger in June 1985. Phi Sigma Kappa's convention was not until August but initial responses were overwhelmingly positive. On August 14, 1985, the merger was approved and formalized. In a stroke of good fortune for the two national bodies there was only one school, Cornell University, which had active chapters of both fraternities.
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The vessels were put to work in the sandalwood trade, as pelagic whalers and as trading vessels. His standing in the Sydney commercial circles saw him invited the join the board of the Bank of New South Wales in 1850. Later in the decade, he became president of the bank. Towns entry into the sandalwood trade began with a stroke of good fortune.
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The eloquent Zaharoff succeeded in convincing Skouloudis of the rightness of his London court case. By a stroke of good fortune, Skouloudis was a friend of a Swedish captain, who was about to leave his job as an agent of arms manufacturer Thorsten Nordenfelt. Skouloudis used his influence to recommend Zaharoff for the role. Zaharoff was hired on October 14, 1877, beginning a spectacular career.
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At 14, Baris had a dream: to dance for the great ballet companies of Vienna and New York. By a stroke of good fortune, he met dancer Nilay Yesiltepe in Istanbul. After seeing Baris dance, she helped him make his dreams a reality. Due to Nilay, Baris landed an audition in Germany and secured the funding he needed for his stint abroad through sponsors Ardic Gursel and Nuray Atabay.
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Only through a stroke of good fortune was Bhattacharya able to win his release from the police, due to the British Consul General's ill ease with holding a British subject indefinitely without having formal charges first been preferred.Roy, M.N. Roy's Memoirs, p. 10. Further efforts to raise funds for armaments from the German consulate at Hankow resulted in a further tentative agreement.Roy, M.N. Roy's Memoirs, pp. 12–13.
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Wells's tibia was broken in an accident in 1874 when he was seven. During his weeks of recuperation he discovered the world of books.H.G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1934), Ch. 2, §5, pp. 53–58. Three years later his father broke his leg in a fall—another "cardinal stroke of good fortune," Wells thought, because it forced his mother into employment and, as a result, the young Wells became a resident apprentice, a placement against which he rebelled.
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Upon returning to San Francisco, he learned that his stocks had indeed fallen below the threshold sales price he specified, but his broker had been unable to sell because Baldwin had taken the key to the safe holding the stock certificates. In an incredible stroke of good fortune, the stock price had rebounded to a spectacular level, creating a multimillion- dollar profit for Baldwin. Using new-found wealth, estimated to be about $2.5 million (or about $ today), he branched out in his investments.
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O'Connor conceived the story during the early stages of working on her first novel, Wise Blood. The character of Ruby's younger brother Rufus later grew into Wise Bloods Hazel Motes, and Ruby's neighbor, Laverne Watts, was an early rendition of Wisebloods Leora Watts.Whitt 1995, p. 56Orvell 1991, p 72 The story was first published as "The Woman on the Stairs" in the August 1949 issue of Tomorrow, and was later published as "A Stroke of Good Fortune" in the spring 1953 issue of Shenandoah.
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The Villistas, believing the order to have come from their own bugler, were fooled into retreating and surrendered the only ground they had gained during the fighting. As Villa's men retreated, Obregón seized the opportunity and ordered a devastating counterattack. In addition to his battle-weary forces, Obregón also called in his reserve, which pushed the Villistas back to their own lines. In a stroke of good fortune for Obregón, the Villistas’ supply of ammunition for their small arms had run low after the day's fighting.
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Royal Standard of Norway since 1905 The early years of the new Norwegian monarchy were marked by a shortage of funds. The Norwegian state was poor and funds were needed elsewhere than in the upkeep of a large court. In that sense it was a stroke of good fortune that Prince Carl had set as a condition for accepting the throne that he would not be forced to keep a large court. However, the royal travels and the upkeep of the royal residences, after the initial refurbishment in 1905, were to some extent neglected.
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Davies' regiment was despatched to Port Nolloth near the southern border of German South-West Africa. After an initial skirmish, the regiment's orders were to patrol the border, part of which ran along the Kalahari Desert. Quite by chance, Davies could once more indulge in a population of bird species which were, for the greater part, new to him. By another stroke of good fortune his Medical Officer was Dr. Louis Clifford Thompson, a fellow birding enthusiast and the owner of a small library which Davies frequently consulted.
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Rachmaninoff fell into a depression that lasted for three years, during which he had writer's block and composed almost nothing. He described this time as "Like the man who had suffered a stroke and for a long time had lost the use of his head and hands". He made a living by giving piano lessons. A stroke of good fortune came from Savva Mamontov, a Russian industrialist and founder of the Moscow Private Russian Opera Company, who offered Rachmaninoff the post of assistant conductor for the 1897–98 season.
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The early years of the new Norwegian monarchy were marked by a shortage of funds. The Norwegian state was poor and funds were needed elsewhere than in the upkeep of a large court. In that sense it was a stroke of good fortune that Prince Carl had set as a condition for accepting the throne that he would not be forced to keep a large court. However the royal travels and the upkeep of the royal residences, after the initial refurbishment in 1905, were to some extent neglected.
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The new weapons were the Chaparral missile/Vulcan gun systems. After nine months at Fort Bliss, the battalion was moved to Germany where, by a stroke of good fortune, the unit was headquartered at Ramstein Air Base in the Rhineland. It was considered good fortune because the Air Force had the best facilities in Germany and Allenger s best friends were also Air Force Officers. Allenger received a Master’s Degree in International Relations in 1972 from the University of Arkansas which offered an overseas extension course in that field by attending night school while at Ramstein.
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Vaudreuil, however, had second thoughts, and dispatched Lévis and his metropolitan troops to support Montcalm at Carillon. Lévis arrived at Carillon on the evening of July 7, as a British army was arriving before the fort. The next day, in a stroke of good fortune for the defenders, the 16,000 strong British army under the command of General James Abercrombie decided to frontally attack the French defenses manned by about 4,000 men, without the benefit of artillery support. In the Battle of Carillon, the British were decisively defeated, with Lévis leading the defense on the French right flank.
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While in Nevada, he met a group of British sportsmen who invited him to join them in India on a big game safari. Baldwin sold the livery and prepared to leave for India. In another stroke of good fortune that cemented his reputation as "Lucky" Baldwin, he left instructions with his broker to sell his Norcross stock if it fell below $800 a foot. (Veins of gold and silver were often sold at the time by the foot.) Baldwin met a troupe of Japanese entertainers in Tokyo and brought them to New York, where he became a vaudeville producer.
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John McDermott notes that "A Stroke of Good Fortune" has been "dismissed by most critics as one of the least effective of Flannery O'Connor's short stories."McDermott 1980, p 13 O'Connor herself found it too farcical to support the serious moral implications of Ruby's behavior.Giannone 2000, p 75 Whitt and McDermott agree that Ruby is in denial about being pregnant, and that everyone else in the story knows. Whitt points out that at the beginning of the story Ruby has brought home four cans of beans from the grocery store, as a way to explain away the kicks of the baby as simply gas pains.
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He made his professional debut in March 1991 (the same tournament as Chiyotenzan) and was immediately given the shikona or fighting name of Kasuganishiki, based on the name of his stable, Kasugano. He used the same shikona throughout his career. After eight years in the unsalaried lower divisions, he reached the jūryō division for the first time in July 1999, but could win only two matches. However, he re-established himself as a sekitori in 2001. He had a stroke of good fortune in the May 2002 tournament, when no fewer than three of his scheduled opponents had to withdraw due to injuries, an extremely rare occurrence.
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In August 1920, Schulz was hired by Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, as the director of the school's new "department of physical education". Reporters took note of Schulz's size when he arrived in New Orleans: "It is a fortunate thing for all concerned that Schulz has taken up the more peaceful pursuit of physical director. It is a stroke of good fortune for Tulane and her athletes that the athletic council was able to land a big man like Schulz". Though he served as the school's athletic director, Schulz also chose to take charge of the linemen during football season, working alongside football coach Clark Shaughnessy.
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Bruce, who narrowly escaped capture, took to hiding. Although the king made a remarkable recovery from these disasters, descending on Ayrshire in the spring of 1307 to begin a guerrilla war, it was by no means certain in these early days that he would be able to prevail against the combination of English military power and internal resistance. Soon after his Ayrshire campaign began he was favoured by a major stroke of good fortune: Edward I, on his way north with an army, died just short of the Scottish border in July 1307. His son, the far less capable Edward II, turned his attention towards English domestic politics, leaving his Scottish allies to manage as best they could.
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The death of the warlike Henry, followed by that of Pope Innocent III, the instigator of the Fourth Crusade, a month later, was a major stroke of good fortune for Theodore as it removed two of his most eminent and capable opponents. Seal of Peter of Courtenay The barons of the Latin Empire then elected Peter II of Courtenay, a cousin of King Philip II Augustus of France, as the new Latin Emperor. Receiving news of his election, Peter assembled a small army of 160 knights and 5,500 foot and horse, and set out from France. After being crowned by Pope Honorius III in Rome, he set sail from Brindisi in April 1217.
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She also thinks about her husband, Bill Hill, a salesman for "Miracle Products" who has seemed particularly happy lately; about her age of 34; and about her general dislike for children. When she sits down on a step to catch her breath she accidentally sits on a toy pistol, which she recognizes as belonging to Hartley Gilfeet, an unruly six-year-old boy who lives in the building. She also thinks about Madam Zoleeda, a fortune teller who has recently read her palm and claimed that "a long illness" would lead to "a stroke of good fortune." On the second floor Ruby is accosted by Mr. Jerger, a 78-year-old former teacher who asks her if she knows whose birthday it is.
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By a stroke of good fortune, Railway Express, a team which ended the season above them was disbanded and Wanderers retained their Super League status though there was an uproar from several quarters, not least from the teams which were next in line for promotion from the first division. However, the decision stood and Wanderers continued in the Super League.Kachingwe, Chris & Kambikambi, Yuyo "FAZ saves ‘Mighty’" Times of Zambia, 24 January 2001, p12 In 2002, they found themselves in the same situation. Needing a win to survive relegation in their final game of the season against Nkwazi FC at Shinde on 16 November 2002, Wanderers could only manage a goalless draw and were demoted causing untold anguish among their fans.
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Richard the Lionheart submits himself to Emperor Henry, Liber ad honorem Augusti, fol. 129R At this stage, Henry had a stroke of good fortune when the Babenberg duke Leopold V of Austria gave him his prominent prisoner, Richard the Lionheart, King of England, whom he had captured on his way back from the Third Crusade and arrested at Dürnstein Castle. On 28 March 1193, Richard was handed over to the emperor in Speyer and imprisoned at Trifels Castle, taking revenge for Richard's alliance with Tancred of Lecce. Ignoring his nearly excommunication by Pope Celestine III for imprisoning a former crusader, he held the English King for a ransom of 150,000 silver marks and officially declared a dowry of Richard's niece Eleanor, who was to marry Duke Leopold's son Frederick.
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The St James's Theatre in Alexander's time Alexander (right) as Lord Windermere in Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892 Alexander had been nurturing managerial ambitions for some time, and in 1890 he secured a lease of the Avenue Theatre. At the time, he was contractually obliged to remain in the cast of a long-running melodrama called London Day by Day at the Adelphi Theatre, and so was unable to appear in his own first production as a manager. This turned out to be a stroke of good fortune, because the play he mounted as a fill-in until he was able to act in his own productions was a farce, Dr Bill, which was immensely successful, running for seven months and making Alexander financially secure. During the run his Aldephi contract expired and he joined the cast of Dr Bill.
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"Song for the Lonely" received generally positive reviews from music critics. While reviewing Living Proof, Billboards Michael Paoletta commented that the song was "an empowering jam that deserves to rock the world just as 'Believe' did". In a separate review for the single, Chuck Taylor from the same magazine opined that "anyone who thought 'Believe' was merely a stroke of good fortune on Cher's mile-long scorecard will be singing a different tune after one spin of the life- affirming '(This Is) A Song for the Lonely '", because "this track is so good, in fact, that it's up for debate as to whether it actually tops that previous winner". He finished his review by writing that "Boy, is "Song for the Lonely" ever an elixir for whatever ails you, a joyous romp with such mass appeal that its destination at the top of the charts seems a given".
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The discovery at Leduc was actually a stroke of good fortune because geologists had chosen the location on the basis of theories that were later shown to be incorrect. The search for large oil reservoirs in Alberta had been ongoing for decades because the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin that lies beneath the majority of the Canadian Prairies was known to be prime ground for the formation of petroleum and natural gas, and it was unlikely that such a prime setting would have produced only the two oil fields that were known to exist in 1946. At that time, geologists believed that rocks of Early Cretaceous age had the greatest potential to contain oil and natural gas, and the Leduc area appeared to be a good location from which to reach those rocks. Earlier discoveries in Texas and at Norman Wells in the Northwest Territories had shown that oil could also be found in Devonian-age reefs, but the prevailing opinion was that Alberta had been a desert at that time so such reefs were unlikely to be present.
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Allegations that Catholics had started the fire were exploited as powerful political propaganda by opponents of pro-Catholic Charles II's court, mostly during the Popish Plot and the exclusion crisis later in his reign. Abroad in the Netherlands, the Great Fire of London was seen as a divine retribution for Holmes's Bonfire, the burning by the English of a Dutch town during the Second Anglo-Dutch War. On 5 October, Marc Antonio Giustinian, Venetian Ambassador in France, reported to the Doge of Venice and the Senate, that Louis XIV announced that he would not "have any rejoicings about it, being such a deplorable accident involving injury to so many unhappy people". Louis had made an offer to his aunt, the British Queen Henrietta Maria, to send food and whatever goods might be of aid in alleviating the plight of Londoners, yet he made no secret that he regarded "the fire of London as a stroke of good fortune for him " as it reduced the risk of French ships crossing the Channel and the North Sea being taken or sunk by the English fleet.
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