Or, there is an alternative explanation: perhaps he was simply another victim of chance.
Indeed, the winnings from all games of chance and forms of betting are tax free.
There is an element of chance in the allocation of subjects for debate in Westminster Hall.
There is something quite searching and wonderful about seeing much of history as a chaos of chance.
How long it takes to drive from Salerno to Reggio di Calabria is a matter of chance.
Bush argued this was not a result of chance but of public policy accomplishments by his administration.
One of his principal ideas is the difficulty of forecasting given the role of chance and extreme events.
Years of chance encounters with the place were all the persuading he needed to put down roots there.
The oddsmakers are not giving Watson much of chance of a repeat (the last repeat champion was Tiger Woods in 2002).
Also, should this by a freak of chance not happen, how long would it have taken for the twins to sell it?
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What better evidence that Italian finance is just a game of chance?
The game was barely two minutes old when a robust challenge from Amdy Faye on Tevez gave Ronaldo the type of chance he craves.
There were even some small hints that the fish oil could make it worse, although this may simply have been the play of chance.
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To qualify as statistically significant a result has, by convention, to have odds longer than one in 20 of being the result of chance.
Opap has a 10-year licence to operate 35, 000 video lottery terminals, as well as the exclusive rights to operate 13 games of chance until 2030.
While Some Strange Country showcases the musicianship of these five players, it's an especially compelling album because in some ways it's the product of chance.
He was charged with keeping a gambling house, sponsoring unlawful bingo games and failing to follow guidelines for games of chance in Leon County, Fla.
And circumstances, he emphasized, are a matter of chance--not of gift.
The Royal Mail employs over 180, 000 people, can the government really afford to be playing a game of chance by selling the company to the private sector?
Stuey Broad is back on and he has Maharoof dropped at slip by Owais Shah, the sort of chance you would expect a slip fielder to pouch.
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Lotto alone, with about 40% of the 21.3 trillion lire turnover in legal betting and games of chance last year, brought in 2.5 trillion lire of tax revenues.
By the laws of chance, they should have been able to make a correct guess 50% of the time - and that was the exact level of accuracy seen.
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It is completely unrealistic to assume that unlawful discrimination is the sole cause of people failing to gravitate to jobs and employers in accord with the laws of chance.
It is not uncharitable to say the Canadian study is confusing, and it is not unwarranted to say its findings might be the result of chance as a real correlation.
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There is, of course, a large element of chance in any individual's career outcome, and we had to make some assumptions in computing average salary paths with and without the M.
Among other things, as gambling has increasingly moved out of Las Vegas and into Midwestern riverboats, Florida Indian reservations and Colorado mountain towns, there are more chances than ever to play games of chance.
Depending on your point of view, the USPGA's reputation for being an 'anyone can win it' major either gives the event a real sense of unpredictability or makes it seem a game of chance.
If you are like most people we work with, chances are you dedicate more hours of your year to games of chance than you do to doing things that are CERTAIN to improve your finances.
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