In a stroke of luck, the German drug firm Bayer offered up a Flap inhibitor it had dropped.
Ravi Bopara rode a generous stroke of luck when he was dropped on four to score exactly 100 more.
Although this is unfair, Mr Davis, no Internet visionary to start with, did have one great stroke of luck.
He dashed off a late application, where by a stroke of luck it was fielded and accepted by Mr. Dodd.
He was compelled to act, and his first stroke of luck was that he picked up no bad habits from teachers.
The serious point is that the prime minister's biggest stroke of luck has been the discombobulation of the party that opposes him.
But a stroke of luck led the classified ads person at the Lancashire Evening Telegraph to smell a potential story and refer him to the features desk.
For although he made much of his fortune for himself, by founding an engineering firm called TransTec, Mr Robinson's career was forever altered, for both good and ill, by one extraordinary stroke of luck.
Lord Black's greatest stroke of luck, however, was his purchase in 1986 of the ailing Daily Telegraph, Britain's biggest-selling quality newspaper, thanks to the help of a former editor of The Economist, Andrew Knight.
Though Mr. Stern received a stroke of luck in that regard, he was still savvy enough to realize the importance of marketing these individual stars in order to maximize fan interest for the NBA as a whole.
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But his biggest stroke of luck was that even before his arrival, Fiat had once again started to make cars that people wanted to buy, such as the new Panda in 2003 and the Grande Punto in 2005.
She was regularly interrogated about her role in the White Rose, but eventually released without charge - a stroke of luck she puts down to her status as a war widow, and to the likelihood that the Gestapo was hoping she would lead them to other co-conspirators.
That is the tragedy at the heart of our health care system -- The devastation when one stroke of bad luck undoes a lifetime of hard work.
Her desperation turned out to be stroke of good luck for us.
But come on Commission bosses, recognise a stroke of good luck when you see it: draft Richard Corbett as your new representative in London.
Last week, Lazlo, a Hungarian serial-entrepreneur and founder of iGuidU, had a stroke of (un)luck.
It was Italy who rode their luck on the stroke of half time when a Weir header was cleared off the goalline by Pirlo.
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