The image of an aristocratic family down on its luck, wearing threadbare jackets and scuffed shoes, comes to mind.
The documents suggest he is prepared to shove back if he feels a bank under his charge is pushing its luck.
Will its luck hold as Britain's public finances continue to deteriorate?
Justice Ginsburg denied the stay, and the company then tried its luck with Justice Antonin Scalia, who submitted the stay request to the full court, and it was again denied.
The partnership rode its luck when Vaughan dropped Mashud, but Hoggard was soon compensated, trapping Mushfiqur lbw with a yorker to end the partnership, which consumed 35 overs for its 60 runs.
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Whether the fires that again raged across Australia represent folly by man or Acts of God will be debated, but clearly much of the region is pushing its luck with land, water and air practices.
On the nonscripted side, CBS will try its luck at luring youngsters, something the network has struggled with in the past, with Kid Nation, a TV variation on Lord of the Flies, about 40 kids who create a parentless society.
The case has cast an unwelcome spotlight on Steubenville, a small, down-on-its-luck town along the banks of the Ohio River.
When appeasement was inevitably followed by a most horrific, brutal war, we saw a different kind of optimism, the kind that rolls up its sleeves, defies the odds and makes its own luck.
If it makes it past U.S. regulators and onto the market, it would represent an impressive turnaround for a company that has known more than its share of bad luck.
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"Picking 11 players and formations isn't a precise science and luck often plays its part, " stated the Ebbsfleet boss.
Then, as the new virus replicates it mutates further and, if luck is on its side, some of these mutations allow it to spread from human to human - a new influenza pandemic is born.
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.
If the case proceeds to the stage where a formal WTO panel is formed to decide on its merits, it could drag on for several years, by which time trade will, with luck, have recovered from its current moribund state.
Oklahoma City, borrowing its model with younger players, was presumed to have taken its place, but got bad luck when Russell Westbrook went down with an injury.
India has not been alone in watching bad luck and unfortunate timing undo its hopes.
Yet, probably by luck rather than judgment, its sherifian solution proved remarkably durable.
With a little luck, AvP will make its targeted first-quarter '99 release, meaning the game will be out in March.
With luck, that will bring its own positive dynamic, and eurozone politicians will not face another "moment of truth" in the financial markets.
"I don't know why I've done so well in the one-day games this season, I guess its been down to a bit of luck, " Schofield told BBC Sport.
So Scientology, those of its disciples who find it useful, good luck to them.
As margins come under pressure, especially in the civil business, Boeing can at least take heart from the fact that its factories now look (and, with luck, will perform) a bit less like giant garage workshops, and a bit more like modern manufacturing plants.
Blackstone owes much of its rapid growth both to its founders' feel for the markets and to luck, the authors argue.
However, during the off-season, fans can expect to see Brand Pepsi creating marketing surrounded by its endorsements of quarterbacks Robert Griffin III and Andrew Luck.
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Poland, by far the biggest of the new EU countries, is in a category of its own: thanks to good government and good luck, it was the only European economy to boast economic growth in 2009.
Accenture doesn't say why it picked Bermuda when it changed its name, "rebranded, " and went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2001. (In one of the best bits of luck in corporate history, Accenture lost its fight to keep the Andersen name.) But taxes, to hear Accenture tell it, had nothing to do with the decision.
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