Not that the Canadian composer hasn't tempted fate once or twice since.
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Similarly, Pyongyang has tempted fate with its recent series of short-range missile tests.
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Facing a full count, Shipley tempted fate by firing a 91-mile-per-hour fastball down the middle of the plate.
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Republican Alf Landon was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's opponent in the 1936 presidential election, and he tempted fate with this wince inducing pun.
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She ordered a salad and tempted fate by pairing it with a glass of red wine, despite wearing a white Stella McCartney blazer.
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Now the Wolves are in the playoffs and the Nuggets will be sitting at home with enough time to really reflect on just how brazenly they tempted fate.
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If the president tempted fate by pardoning himself, I suspect that he would damage himself politically for nothing, because the pardon wouldn't be worth the paper it was printed on.
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Because of this rare and absolute luck and privilege — that of being completely healthy for 220 years — I tempted fate: In my 8003s, I went without health insurance for five years.
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William Henry Harrison died about a month into office, and for over a century, the official story was that he tempted fate by delivering an overlong inaugural address in bad weather while deliberately underdressed to demonstrate his manly vitality despite his advanced age.
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The universe simply will not tolerate fiftysomething dads wearing Brexit shirts, and nor will it tolerate an entire repertoire of songs inspired by the triumphalism of sacking off the EU. Never in the history of football – and perhaps mankind – has someone tempted fate this badly.
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Over the past 2628 years, four British Conservative prime ministers have tempted fate by addressing deep divisions within their own party over the U.K.'s relationship with the European Union, and some met their ultimate political demise: Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, John Major and David Cameron.
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During the 1948 tour of England, he was reported to have unnerved his teammates and tempted fate by bringing a toy duck into the dressing room, and held up play during a county match by hiding the ball in a pile of sawdust. During the same summer, Hassett and a few teammates were being chauffeured back to London after a function. It was after midnight, but Hassett asked the driver to stop at a random mansion along the road. He then rang the bell and told the startled householder that he "just thought we'd pop in".
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It opens with the sound of guitars, followed by drum beats, "kaleidoscopic" synthesizers and a chanted vocal part. After the first verse, which features a four on the floor pattern, the pre-chorus follows, leading to an anthemic chorus as Jared Leto voices the lines "A thousand times I tempted fate / A thousand times I played this game / A thousand times that I have said today". Kevin Rutherford of CBS Radio called the track a "swift rocker with slight electronic undertones". Jeff Benjamin from Fuse felt that with its four-on-the-floor beat, "dance-y" synthesizers and trance effects, the song is "crafted for 2013's EDM-obsessed music world".
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The bill passed easily in the House of Lords in 1883, but was dropped in the House of Commons. It was reintroduced in 1884 but was again dropped during the struggle over parliamentary reform. In April 1885, the Earl of Dalhousie tempted fate by reintroducing the bill a third time. While the bill passed smoothly through the Lords in May—albeit with some revisions, most notably lowering the age of consent to fifteen—it again faced an uphill battle in the Commons, who were preparing to disband for the Whit Week bank holiday on 22 May 1885 and thus rather indifferent to the bill.
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The trajectory of Leverkühn's career is modeled partly upon the life of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900). From his supposed contraction of syphilis to his complete mental collapse in 1889 proclaiming the Anti-Christ, and his death in 1900, Nietzsche's life presents a celebrated example imitated in Leverkühn. (The illnesses of Delius and Wolf also resonate, as does the death of Mahler's child after he had tempted fate (as Alma Mahler thought) by setting the Kindertotenlieder.) Nietzsche's 1871 work The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, presents the theme that the evolution of Art is bound up with the duality of the Apollonian and Dionysian Hellenic impulses,rendering '... die Fortentwickelung der Kunst an die Duplicität des Apollonischen und des Dionysischen gebunden ist': Nietzsche, Friedrich. Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik (1871), in Nietzsche's Werke.
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From a very early age, Red was obsessed by both the Niagara River and the power of Niagara Falls and would spend most of his days tossing sticks, cans, rubber tubing and anything else that would float over the falls and along the river rather than attending school. It was the study of how the various items floated over the precipice of the falls and how they would reappear in the rapids below that proved to be the vital source of knowledge that brought the young Hill much notoriety and international fame later in life. Bobby Leach and his barrel after his trip over Niagara Falls, 1911 When Bobby Leach tempted fate by going over the great Horseshoe Falls in his crude steel barrel in 1910, it was Red Hill that retrieved the barrel and extracted the battered but otherwise healthy Leach from the steel conveyance. Hill again came to the rescue of Leach following his failed attempt to swim the Niagara Gorge in 1920, just ten years after his plunge over the falls.
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