Irvine's residents are not alone in their good fortune.
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Finding vast new reserves of oil and gas in your own back yard must count as good fortune in a land as hungry for energy as America.
However, in an incident that mirrored Matt Prior's moment of good fortune in Melbourne, Cook was urged to remain at the wicket by umpire Bowden while the Aussies rushed to congratulate Beer and the catcher, Hilfenhaus.
In a stroke of good fortune, this place, Pinehurst, happened to be located in a part of North Carolina known as the Sandhills, because underneath the grass everything was sand, not soil.
Yet, in New Hampshire at least, the evidence is slightly more than just good fortune: in nursing homes, companies and schools, Mr Bradley seems to be clicking with his listeners, an alarming number of whom, from Mr Gore's point of view, have already met the vice-president.
In a life of good fortune, he valued above all the gracious gift of his wife, Nancy.
We had the good fortune in 2012 to be honored with 21 awards recognizing our client campaigns, our professionals, and the firm itself.
She has, on occasion, worn saris to work, and she keeps an image of Ganesh, the elephant-headed deity of good fortune, in her office.
In short, Minnesota's unicameralists will need rare good fortune if they are to repeat what the Nebraskans did in 1934.
He is as aware as anyone else in Westminster that some of his good fortune is down to the positive press he has received.
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Pilot Air Freight, the company which carried the unusual cargo, pointed out that, apart from anything else, Mr McKinley had narrowly escaped death by having the good fortune to fly in pressurised, heated cabins.
Alonso, who had the good fortune to come in for an early pit stop before the accident involving his Renault team-mate Piquet, drove peerlessly away after the second safety car delay, with Hamilton content to settle for third place.
Since the irs accepts only a fifth of offers, this sounds like the old "pigeon drop" scam, in which a mark is asked to post "good faith" money to share in a larger nonexistent fortune.
But they tend to discount the major role that simple good fortune and timing played in their prosperity.
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My standard answer is that I have the same struggles as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working in my dream job.
Mr. Hanold owes his current job in computer operations to a colleague with a link to the Tall Club, and he now repays his good fortune by contacting members when he learns of openings in his industry.
It was the greatest stroke of good fortune he had ever had in his life.
That stirred in her an early determination to use her good fortune to help people with misfortune.
In my life, I have had the good fortune to interact with all sorts of talented people.
Not only can they get going quickly, but they can scale if they have the good fortune to get a spike in traffic for some reason.
Admittedly, after a few minutes of this story I realized that Robert Redd had the good fortune to play a part in the dynamics of a family connection.
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Honoring Ganesh (known in Mumbai as Ganapati), the elephant-headed Lord of wisdom, good fortune and obstacles, the 10-day festival sees thousands of huge Ganesh idols displayed in "pandals" (pavilions) around the city.
Earlier this week I had the good fortune to have lunch with Thierry in Geneva.
Where the 2004 team had clearly run up copious debts with good fortune, this one is decidedly in credit.
In Salzburg in the mid-1930s, he had the good fortune to work as assistant to two of the day's top conductors, Bruno Walter and Arturo Toscanini.
He had the good fortune to be owned by Rome in partnership with Little Red Feather Racing during his life on the track, winning three times and finishing in the top three seven times for them.
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