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Examples of luck

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Secondly, both internal and external causes can be stable over time (ability, task difficulty) or unstable (effort, luck).
Insiders therefore reduce the luck factor and outsiders, as a consequence, get a fairer deal.
They tend to attribute their successes more to luck and less to ability than men, and to be more influenceable.
Of all those postulated astrochemical elements, only the first, helium, survived: a wonderful example of beginner's luck.
Before they started, there was a stroke of luck.
The war-damaged argued that the undamaged had only preserved their assets by luck, given the fortuitous distribution of wartime and post-war losses.
Hurley shows only that some ways to specify or justify luck-egalitarianism are incorrect, not that luck-egalitarianism is incorrect.
The significant difference between the algorithms occurs when one has mixed luck.
We can not merely stipulate that there be no luck involved, because we all of us rely on luck to some extent.
Finally, their level of agreement with the concept of health being a matter of luck was entered.
Regarding court rulings, we assume that judges decide according to posterior beliefs concerning the likelihood of bad intentions or respectively bad luck.
First, there is the familiar issue of causation luck.
On the contrary, the factory often provided steady work, a stable wage and a world in which with a little luck one could ascend.
They are also concerned with the fact that, irrespective of how others are doing, some people are needy through bad brute luck, full stop.
He found that serious injury was rare following an incident as either intervention or luck tended to prevent significant harm in the majority of cases.
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Collocations withluck

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bad luck
Regarding court rulings, we assume that judges decide according to posterior beliefs concerning the likelihood of bad intentions or respectively badluck.
better luck
You cannot win everything; we may have betterluck next time.
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