And if he's somehow by some miracle allowed on the ballot, he won't win.

NPR: Looking Into Putin's Soul Again

Don't ask me how but by some miracle I jabbed down on the delivery and the ball plopped (sadly it was no more than plop) at my feet.

BBC: Facing England's tormentor

The new film unwinds in one take, lasting ninety minutes, and by some miracle we grow happily accustomed to its rhythm, like children held rapt by a bedtime story.

NEWYORKER: Russian Ark

The skeletal facades that by some miracle are still standing attest to the fact that the cafes, the eating places, the houses, and the buildings have all gone up in smoke.

NPR: 'The Swallows of Kabul' Book Excerpt

It did so because only 400 of the peers tended to show up, and by some miracle of British improvisation made a decent job of improving the legislation sent to them from the Commons.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

Even if a battle-weary Republican House manages by some miracle to pass pro-growth reforms on Social Security or estate taxes, liberal Republican senators such as Chafee and Maine's Olympia Snowe will have new powers to block them.

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Even if by some miracle a carbon tax starts out revenue neutral, this almost certainly would be the setup for a bait-and-switch in which future Congresses keep or increase the carbon tax and decrease or rescind cuts in other taxes.

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If by some sort of miracle federal legislation gets passed, it will probably be limited to online poker.

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After looking at the pharmaceutical industry's second-quarter earnings, some investors might be tempted to see a miracle cure for a sector that has been plagued by competitive pressures and safety and marketing scandals.

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