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 luck ( or lack thereof ) the travelers, Doug and Tony, frequently found themselves thrown onto the precipice of major historical events: on board the Titanic before it hits the iceberg, in Pearl Harbor before the Japanese attack, on Krakatoa before it erupts, and so forth.

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 `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.

By scrutinizing the flowers, one can also notice that the scale bears one or two tiny warts.

By analogy, the church also has been regarded as entirely independent of the `` world '' in the sense of requiring nothing from it in order to be the church.

By the end of the century the Roman Catholic Church was beginning to make itself felt, mainly through such institutions as hospitals but also through its attitude towards organized labour.

It has also been argued that A Modest Proposal was, at least in part, a response to the 1728 essay The Generous Projector or, A Friendly Proposal to Prevent Murder and Other Enormous Abuses, By Erecting an Hospital for Foundlings and Bastard Children by Swift's rival Daniel Defoe.

By the conditions accepted in the treaty, the Avars were to take possession of Pannonia and the Lombards were promised military support in Italy should the need arise ; also, for a period of 200 years the Lombards were to maintain the right to reclaim their former territories if the plan to conquer Italy failed, thus leaving Alboin with an alternative open.

By that September Johnson declared he was in favor of emancipation, describing slavery as a " cancer on our society ", and also succeeded in enlisting 20, 000 black troops for the Union.

By the age of twenty, Ferdinando I, Duke of Mantua, began commissioning works from him, and he was also employed by local jewelers for figurative designs.

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 association, artillery may also refer to the arm of service that customarily operates such engines.

The album's title song received some pop radio airplay and crossed over to No. 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, and " 1974 ( We Were Young )" and " Saved By Love " also charted as Adult Contemporary songs.

By the 2nd century there were also famous Christian ascetics, such as Saint Thecla.

By the first century BC brass was available in sufficient supply to use as coinage in Phrygia and Bithynia, and after the Augustan currency reform of 23 BC it was also used to make Roman dupondii and sestertii.

Zinc metal was also becoming more commonplace By 1513 metallic zinc ingots from India and China were arriving in London and pellets of zinc condensed in furnace flues at the Rammelsberg in Germany were exploited for cementation brass making from around 1550.

By the charter renewal in 1781 it was also the bankers ' bank – keeping enough gold to pay its notes on demand until 26 February 1797 when war had so diminished gold reserves that the government prohibited the Bank from paying out in gold.

By the 1850s, bunyip had also become a " synonym for imposter, pretender, humbug and the like " in the broader Australian community.

By 16: 00, Alexander and Swiftsure were also in sight, although some distance from the main British fleet, and Brueys gave orders to abandon the plan to remain at anchor and instead for his line to set sails, although Blanquet protested the order on the grounds that there were not enough men aboard the French ships to both sail the ships and man the guns.

By extension, the term is also used to refer to any system administrator who displays ( or wishes he could get away with ) the qualities of the original.

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.

The 1523 " Turin map " of the islands was the first to refer to them as Los Lagartos, meaning alligators or large lizards, By 1530 they were known as the Caymanes after the Carib word caimán for the marine crocodile, either the American or the Cuban crocodile, Crocodylus acutus or C. rhombifer, which also lived there.

By contrast, several countries can also use the same currency ( for example, the euro ), or one country can declare the currency of another country to be legal tender.

By regulating the processing parameters — especially the gases introduced, but also including the pressure the system is operated under, the temperature of the diamond, and the method of generating plasma — many different materials that can be considered diamond can be made.

By the 16th century, Cairo also had high-rise apartment buildings where the two lower floors were for commercial and storage purposes and the multiple stories above them were rented out to tenants.

By 1910, the name had changed to Addicks although it also appeared as Haddick.

By roughly the 1st century BC, the ancient kingdom of Buyeo also had mounted warriors.