Johnson's father used to ask people to light a candle for him as a good-luck charm.
The mother and daughter giggled and rubbed their bellies as if for good luck, thinking about Sydney's niece -- Yost's daughter -- who will be called Bobbi Ann.
Monetary policymakers have to rely on good luck as well as sound judgment.
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The new colors honor many key Boeing customers whose cultures recognize these colors as symbols of prosperity and good luck.
As a result of my good luck, however, I was turned loose by the medical community to renew my physical pursuits.
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If Luck is as good as is assumed, the team that plays the worst (thus devaluing the NFL product itself) will paradoxically be rewarded for sullying the brand.
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And micro-grids are getting a good luck, as they could supply the necessary power to the local gas station, supermarket, emergency shelter, police and fire station until the larger systems are restored.
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Of course, it always helps to have some good luck, but as we know, chance favors a prepared mind.
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But good luck finding something as plush for the same price.
"I hope it brings him peace, luck and good fortune as it has to all of us who have preceded him, " Littrell typed on a page in the front.
And we think you will too, especially if you're using this in a hotel room and have no other options, save for your smartphone (and good luck relying on that as an alternative).
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In particular, when evaluating their performance, the team attributed its success to its capabilities without carefully considering other factors that may have been relevant, such as how good the competitors were or even luck.
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Good luck creating a new cholesterol drug as potent, safe for most people, and widely tested as Lipitor.
As for those outside the charmed circle of college fandom, good luck navigating by the stars of March Madness.
Halvorson was greeted by cheers of "good luck" and "go Debbie go" as she cast her ballot at a suburban community center in the village of Steger.
But come on Commission bosses, recognise a stroke of good luck when you see it: draft Richard Corbett as your new representative in London.
In my own case, a bit of very important good luck tracked me down one day in 1981, as I stood at a San Francisco curbside, washing my crummy old car.
"Obviously we are disappointed not to take the three points and with a bit of luck maybe we would have, despite the performance not being as good as it has been in the past, " said the Scot.
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In the old days (before the 1950s), a real log was doused with brandy and thrown on to the hearth, where its flames were scrutinised as a harbinger of the next year's harvest and its ashes preserved for good luck.
But then it all changed, and from an unexpected source, as Carragher tried his luck from the edge of the box and while his luck was good, Pogatez's was not and the ball flew in off the unfortunate defender.
Mr Talbott has also had the good luck to be able to track the same tension in the present day, as America after the cold war has oscillated between a multilateral and unilateral foreign policy under Presidents Clinton and Bush.
The mah song are specially chosen to shift evil from individuals and bring good luck to the community, and it is claimed that they feel no pain as they march around Phuket Town in a trance for two hours, "possessed" by the purifying spirits of the Nine Emperor Gods, who they believe will protect them from any harm or scarring.
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