By luck, these men found the Valley of Copiapó, where a Spaniard called Gonzalo Calvo Barrientos, a Spaniard whom Pizarro had expelled from Peru for stealing objects the Inca had offered for his ransom, had already established a friendship with the local natives.

By a stroke of luck, a thaw prevented the Chatti from crossing the Rhine and coming to Saturninus ' aid.

By a tragic stroke of bad luck, he is spotted and shot down by Jack, who is bent on avenging his friend.

By sheer bad luck, it turns out that the femme fatale had also been picked up by Haskell earlier.

By this time, warring factions in Thebes wished him to return to that city, believing that his body would bring it luck.

By a stroke of luck, he is released on a technicality and returns to Tarascon with the lion's skin to a hero's welcome.

By luck Superdupont is a master in the savate also known as boxe française (" French boxing "), which gives some superiority over his opponents.

Hamilcar next invited Hanno to join forces, but cooperation between them was ineffective and the Peoples assembly voted to give Hamilcar sole command By the power of his personal influence among the mercenaries and the surrounding African peoples, superior strategy and some luck, Hamilcar, and also cooperation, if unenthusiastic, from Hanno the Great, Hamilcar crushed the revolt by ( 237 BC ) amid a war marked with cruelty atrocities from both sides.

By sheer luck, they land in the dressing room of James Van Der Beek ( of Dawson's Creek ) and Jason Biggs ( of American Pie ), who happen to be playing Jay and Silent Bob in The Bluntman and Chronic Movie ; Silent Bob is somewhat upset that his comic-book counterpart is being played by the " pie fucker ".

By a stroke of luck, a band of Cossacks captured a messenger carrying Napoleon's plans to Bernadotte and quickly forwarded the information to General Pyotr Bagration.

By blaming fortune for his fall he came as close as he dared to denying his guilt ( i. e., he was dying because luck had been against him, not because he was guilty ).

By separating himself from his son and departing into Asia, Demetrius seemed to take his bad luck with him, but in reality it was the fear and the jealousy of the other kings.

By mid summer, though, Pompey had a fortunate stroke of luck.

By a stroke of luck, in 2373 Starfleet was able to capture an intact Jem ' Hadar fighter and reverse engineer the weapons, developing an effective defense.

By another stroke of luck, he missed being sent to Russia to fight the Bolsheviks by one space in line.

By contrast, the unassisted triple play is essentially always a matter of luck: a combination of the right circumstances with the relatively simple effort of catching the ball and running in the right direction with it.

By April 1851, 2, 000 miners had arrived in " Thompson's Dry Diggings " through the southern rout of old Emigrant Trail to test their luck, which took them straight through Modoc territory.

By a stroke of luck, the date of the burning coincides with a historical solar eclipse in the year 528, of which Hank had learned in his earlier life.

By quite a stroke of luck, he was able to procure a radio frequency and transmitter for $ 201.

By a stroke of luck, the school bell rang late and no children were outside when the bomb detonated.

By the time she was cast, Varsi already had an agent and had been searching for film roles for a long while, without any luck.

By subverting the Emergents ' management systems and by luck and human resilience, they defeat the ruling class of the Emergents.

By 1891, both his mother and father had died, and he went to Chicago to try his luck in the grain pit there, but did not find that he could satisfactorily predict the price of wheat and left the grain pit to become treasurer in the Stirling Boiler Company.

By good luck the brute precariously survived.

By providing extra storage this modification also allowed some games and applications intended for the BBC Micro to function on the Electron despite the lack of a native Mode 7.

By contrast, in civil law jurisdictions ( the legal tradition that prevails in, or is combined with common law in, Europe and most non-Islamic, non-common law countries ), courts lack authority to act where there is no statute, and judicial precedent is given less interpretive weight ( which means that a judge deciding a given case has more freedom to interpret the text of a statute independently, and less predictably ), and scholarly literature is given more.

By 1970, both Parton and Wagoner had grown frustrated by her lack of solo chart success, and Porter had her record Jimmie Rodgers ' " Mule Skinner Blues ", a gimmick that worked.

By far the strongest hereditary claim was that of Edgar the Ætheling, but his youth and apparent lack of powerful supporters caused him to be passed over, and he did not play a major part in the struggles of 1066, though he was made king for a short time by the Witan after the death of Harold Godwinson.

By the Middle Bronze Age, increasing numbers of smelted iron objects ( distinguishable from meteoric iron by the lack of nickel in the product ) appeared in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and South Asia.

By all accounts, both teams ' players thought Australia would win the match ; indeed the England team had enjoyed a raucous barbecue chez Botham on the Saturday evening, such was their lack of faith in a positive result.

By 1997, Miramax shut down the company due to " lack of interest " in the pictures released.

By this stage in their career, the band were acutely aware of the pressure they were under from EMI, who were unhappy with the lack of chart success of much of the material the band had released since their Positive Touch LP in 1981.

By 1972, the clean and press was discontinued because athletes started to push with legs and bend backwards instead of strictly pressing the weight overhead, and this left the sole elements of what is today's modern Olympic weightlifting programme – the snatch and the clean and jerk. The snatch entails pulling with a wide grip the barbell overhead without pressing out with the arms. It is a very precise lift that can be nullified by a lack of balance of the athlete. The clean and jerk is more forgiving using a narrower grip pull the bar to the shoulders and then using the strength of the legs push until arms reach full extension without a press out.

By 1998, however, output of copper had fallen to a low of 228, 000 tonnes, continuing a 30-year decline in output due to lack of investment, and until recently, low copper prices and uncertainty over privatization.

By 1916 the lack of co-ordination of the Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Navy's Royal Naval Air Service had led to serious problems, not only in the procurement of aircraft engines, but also in the air defence of Great Britain.

By the late 1960s and early 1970s, many planners felt that modernism's clean lines and lack of human scale sapped vitality from the community, blaming them for high crime rates and social problems.

By definition, observational studies lack the manipulation required for Baconian experiments.

By the beginning of 1819 the pressure generated by poor economic conditions, coupled with the lack of suffrage in northern England, had enhanced the appeal of political radicalism.

By this time, the music videos and concert specials that the channel ran since the 1997 rebrand were dropped, citing the inability to receive a stake in revenue from the artists ' CD sales and lack of exclusivity for the videos ; soon after, the channel began to incorporate music videos from songs featured in Disney's feature films and performed by artists on Radio Disney and signed by Disney's in-house record companies Hollywood Records and Walt Disney Records.

By 1992 the company was losing money again, due to lack of business ; CEO Sheryl Handler was forced out in the face of public criticism.

By that time the earlier indigenous tribes of that area were no longer present, presumably due to their lack of resistance to European diseases such as measles and smallpox that had been carried in earlier by European traffic and settlement along the Mississippi River.

By the early 20th century, Jacob's dirt roads were improved and its population rose, but the poverty level was high due to the lack of education as there was no school for black children.

By 1890 there were a handful of successful agricultural operations in the Snake River Canyon, but the lack of infrastructure and the canyon's geography made irrigating the dry surrounding area improbable at best.

By 1830 the population was over 600, but the town's growth in the 19th century was slowed by numerous fires, a cholera epidemic in 1833, and the lack of turnpike access.

By 27 June, the French had cut the allies ' line of supply and the Pragmatic Army had suffered severely from a lack of supplies and, in a reduced state, decided to fall back on Hanau, just what the French wanted.

By definition, any homologous trait defines a clade — a monophyletic taxon in which all the members have the trait ( or have lost it secondarily ); and all non-members lack it.

By the same token, McKenna argued that the invalidation of Section 10 would hamper Congress ' intentions, as a scheme devised for effective arbitration would thus come to lack an integral component.

By 1979, there was an increasing dissatisfaction with the aging President Kekkonen, whose failing health was becoming difficult to conceal, and the lack of change.

By the time it was released, the band had become one of the most critically praised hardcore punk bands of the time, despite a lack of mainstream success.