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 extending this help, we hope to make possible the enthusiastic enrollment of these nations under freedom's banner.

By a combination of music, lighting effects, and narration, famous events that have transpired in these locations are evoked and re-created for large audiences usually to considerable acclaim.

By 1965, several or all of these systems will have been fully tested and their reliability established.

By using the appropriate version any one of these factors can be determined for any combination of the other three.

By these measures, Congress, so the Court ( in effect ) now decides, gave not only needless but inadequate relief, since it now appears that the federal courts have inherent power to sterilize the Act of 1875 against all proceedings challenging local regulation ''.

By these steps the final AIA list was reduced from 8,000 to 3,500.

By virtue of the legal responsibilities of the Department of Employment in the farm placement program, we necessarily found ourselves in the middle between these two forces.

By preying on the sick, by playing callously on the hopes of the desperate, by causing the sufferer to delay proper medical care, these medical ghouls create pain and misery by their very activity.

By no means are these isolated cases.

By 1926, when the mighty Yanks were at their mightiest, only a few of these were left but they still shone brightest, even beside able and agile rookies like Tony Lazzeri ( who managed never to have one of his epileptic fits on the field ), Mark Koenig, Lou Gehrig, George Pipgras, and gray-thatched Earl Combs.

By reminding ourselves of these factors in the situation, we should, I am sure, come to a fresh realization, however painful it be, that the battle between Parker and his neighbors was fought in earnest.

By studying these images, they can detect solar system objects by their movements relative to the background stars, which remain fixed.

By the beginning of the 8th century, these kingdoms had either been conquered by Nicene neighbors ( Ostrogoths, Vandals, Burgundians ) or their rulers had accepted Nicene Christianity ( Visigoths, Lombards ).

By reducing detail in one direction more than another, these effects can be reduced.

Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

By and large the power exercised by these officials was routine administration and quite limited.

By 500 BC, Ionia appears to have been ripe for rebellion against these Persian clients.

By 454, the Delian League could be fairly characterized as an Athenian Empire ; at the start of the Peloponnesian War, only Chios and Lesbos were left to contribute ships, and these states were by now far too weak to secede without support.

By late 1983 it was clear that IBM's Token Ring would not be ready in time for the launch of the Mac, and might miss the launch of these other products as well.

By this point Apple had a wide variety of communications products under development, and many of these were announced along with AppleTalk Phase II.

By the help of these discoveries, Angle civilization in the age preceding the invasion of Britannia can be fitted together.

By the 1930s, statisticians and models built on statistical reasoning had helped to resolve these differences and to produce the neo-Darwinian modern evolutionary synthesis.

By the time the federal environmental clearances were delivered in 1994, A $ 10 million contract, signed off as a cost overrun, was used to repair these leaks.

By making these data available to local public health officials in real time, most models of anthrax epidemics indicate that more than 80 % of an exposed population can receive antibiotic treatment before becoming symptomatic, and thus avoid the moderately high mortality of the disease.

By the early 2000s, these competitions were named Comic Idol ( in reference to Pop Idol.