Some 2000 million years ago, mammals caught their lucky break.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Every start-up hopes for a lucky break.
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This is a fabulously lucky break for the White House.
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Or maybe it's a lucky break for certain CIA officials.
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Ant Financial's lucky break seems to have arrived earlier this year.
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The coal industry should consider the tax bill a lucky break.
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We got a lucky break on a good shot by Klinger.
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As elsewhere, however, most African success stories involve a lucky break.
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The lucky break for Clinton was that the scolder was James Comey.
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Lucky break It was right about then when officer Daniel remembered something.
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PPR owners looking for a lucky break could give him a shot.
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If Poldark ever caught a lucky break, it would destroy the whole story.
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The lucky break was a symptom of a troubling trend, according to Pineau.
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Then, during their interrogation of O'Connor, Horne and Gasper caught a lucky break.
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It took a lucky break for investigators to find out how the mysteries converged.
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Republicans also warn that Trump and his supporters can't depend on a lucky break.
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"That was my lucky break," Donen told the Los Angeles Daily News in 1998.
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In a lucky break, a book manuscript of mine had just been copy-edited.
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What should have been a lucky break for law enforcement, however, soon turned disastrous.
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Unlike many models, she did not get her lucky break until she was nearly 50.
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Sometimes you get a lucky break and that dovetailing happens during the act of creation.
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That "very lucky break," Greene says, led to a two-year consulting gig with Sony/Daybreak.
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For two days, Gasparik visited the street corner with the Lab, hoping for a lucky break.
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It took a lucky break for the Lightning, catching an opportunity with Mrazek out of position.
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If so, you've caught a lucky break, because we're bringing it back for a flash sale.
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Nor was it the only lucky break that NASA got today by way of an amateur.
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The process might take time, a lucky break, more improvement, or a combination of all three.
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There's glamour in chasing an elusive lucky break, but teamwork and persistence can still win the day.
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But last year, the FBI got a lucky break when Thomas boarded a flight to New York.
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A lucky break will come this evening, and people will be open to talking about things seriously.
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We refinished the wood to match the rest of the house, but boy was that a lucky break!
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When it came to her wedding day, Whitney Bischoff caught a lucky break with some especially compliant weather.
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But despite Banno's lucky break, his work, on Godzilla vs Hedorah nearly ended his career before it started.
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James later tweeted that his family had caught a lucky break, finding a place to spend the night.
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Going viral catapulted her music into the spotlight — a lucky break considering she was already signed to Def Jam.
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" (Recode) • Jennifer Saba writes of the transaction, "It's a lucky break because a go-it-alone strategy looked doomed.
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Apple also caught a lucky break with Samsung announcing it would halt shipments of the new Galaxy Note 7 device.
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Some black cats are said to be a bad omen, but this beautiful onyx kitten recently got a lucky break.
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The story of Mr Martin, the last man in London giving the Beatles their lucky break, is a good one.
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He won't catch a lucky break here, but his Venezuelan connections have been a refreshing sight among the Kentucky bluebloods.
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He was allowed to keep the name, but he had to change the packaging, which he considers a lucky break.
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And the infighting could be another lucky break for Trump, whose life story is already a fable of outrageous fortune.
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Indeed, in theory, anyone with the right mix of "optimal newness", wide reach and repeated exposure can get their lucky break.
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I'd be intimidated if the only path to wealth was a lucky break, a brilliant business idea, or a Powerball victory.
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It seems that Ukraine cannot get a lucky break in its quest to turn from Russia to become part of Europe.
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He said it was a lucky break that the crane fell in the middle of the day when traffic was lighter.
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And then one day, he got a lucky break, finding his way onto Fox and into the Retired Military Analysts program.
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The company's lucky break came in the midst of one of its near-death experiences during the 2008-09 global financial crisis.
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Japan can enjoy its unexpected lucky break only so long as Trump delivers on his stimulus promises but not his trade threats.
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Still, in some ways, I consider this new turn of events to be a lucky break for me, believe it or not.
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Carrie Walls's lucky break comes as the shutdown continues into its fourth week, making it the longest funding lapse in U.S. history.
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While a lucky break may put a little wind in a successful person's sails, they got where they are through hard work.
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If you're looking for your lucky break, you have until May 19th to throw your hat in the ring for the first round.
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The play of the other golfers isn't randomized, so you can't just keep replaying the round and hoping you catch a lucky break.
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I was probably a bit naïve about the whole thing seeing how it was a bit of a lucky-break job for me.
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But sometimes, astronomers catch a lucky break with the help of gravitational microlensing, which is like a cosmic riff on a magnifying glass.
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"We got a lucky break when one of the singers in the Trolls was put on academic probation," said Tom Scheft, 67, the drummer.
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Gill may have had a lucky break thanks to a thermal imaging camera, but medical experts do not recommend using the devices for screening purposes.
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"My story — which the only thing we can call it is a lucky break — is unfortunately not that uncommon in the economy today," Hughes said.
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He caught a lucky break with a summer internship at Credit Suisse First Boston and that began his love affair with Wall Street – and money.
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Then Mark Giordano tied the game 49 seconds later, a lucky break as his point shot deflected off the stick of Coyotes defenseman Jason Demers.
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A longtime conservative, he got a lucky break when asked, in 1818, to take over as editor of a local Tory newspaper, the Westmorland Gazette .
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Cory Booker, who is hoping for a lucky break, also remained unchanged at 3 percent, behind the entrepreneur Andrew Yang, who was at 5 percent.
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When he comes across a substantial pocket of gold hidden away on Kardashev 7-A, he's hit a lucky break — if he can smuggle it off.
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"For three years' worth of work at Facebook, I ended up with nearly half a billion dollars, which is nothing but a lucky break," Hughes said.
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But she also followed up by posting a message to the "What's Happening in Daphne" Facebook page, and it turned out to be Bunny's lucky break.
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A few years into researching her book on the 1971 Attica prison revolt, the bloodiest in the nation's history, Heather Ann Thompson got a lucky break.
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At first, they kind of baited us into it, but as the game went on we wore them down a bit and got a lucky break.
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In order to make the final identification, the police might need a lucky break, such as a tip from someone who reports the person as missing.
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The lucky break made international headlines, next a relative was tracked down, and months later the mother was flown into Palermo from Tunisia for an emotional reunion.
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Arthur: It was a lucky break but I think that also made our business model completely different because it literally turned us into a project-based company.
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Serious Saturn in Sagittarius has been pushing you to be more mature about your finances, but you've been worried that a lucky break won't come your way.
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The lucky break clearly affected him; he's declared that Tesla, the world's best-known and most successful electric-vehicle company, would never do an electric two-wheeler.
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You'd need a lucky break and a big play Week 16 against the Seahawks, but it only takes one defensive breakdown for Nelson to make his nut.
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Christian Fischer was the beneficiary of a lucky break when the Coyotes stretched their lead to 3-0 at the 2:18 mark of the second period.
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In a second lucky break, Sean Bird, a dean at Washburn University who knew TaTy's mother, arranged for her to take practice tests in the university library.
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"I happened to have a lucky break as a diner waitress," Corcoran, 68, tells PEOPLE of how she got her start with her former company, The Corcoran Group.
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Rose got a lucky break in the playoff when his approach shot landed in a skybox but ricocheted back toward the hole and stopped just off the green.
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You get the sense that if Toomes had just had one lucky break in life, he could've easily become a hero in this world of gods and monsters.
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Close to failure, I had a lucky break thanks to one of my credit card providers who offered me an unsecured loan of $14,000 which I immediately took.
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"Eventually you're going to break through, get the lucky break, or you just deserve it because you've worked hard and you believe in what you're doing," Federer said.
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Sunny skies and a high around 212 — a lucky break for early risers who got to see the super blue blood moon this morning just before 203 a.m.
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HERE'S THE RUNDOWNA Huge Producer is Going after Future's FortuneAmber Heard Meets with a Famous Love DoctorBeyonce Accused of Stealing 'Lemonade'The Disgraced Stanford Swimmer Catches Another Lucky Break
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It's kind of a lucky break, since the visions caused by his brain injury are what enable them to figure out that they are in a secret refurbishing station.
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The sextet of 6-week-olds caught their first lucky break when a civilian walking near the creek noticed the box tip over and found the dogs stuck inside.
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I see so many actors that are brilliantly talented and out of work, and they just never had the lucky break of Daniel Day Lewis turning their role down.
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After 2016, it was an unresolved question whether Mr. Trump's victory was a lucky break against a weak opponent or a sign he had tapped into a political shift.
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Bites It is surprising that in Los Angeles, where one lucky break can be the difference between obsolescence and global stardom, that there was not already a restaurant called Kismet.
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This lucky break opened many doors for me, and I soon found myself playing with other great blues musicians — Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy and Bo Diddley, to name a few.
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By 2012, only a few old-timers remained, including Ms. Bowman, who, through a lucky break, had renewed her 10-year lease in 2002, just before the street took off.
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It's a lucky break — in one fell swoop, he gets steady pay, room, and board in Dalton's palatial mansion, and the freedom to explore his options beyond just making ends meet.
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But I changed my mind when after several fashion internships never materialized into 'real jobs' and I got a lucky break — I landed an PR assistant role at a cable television network.
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It seems like an incredibly lucky break that Guitar Hero was so massively popular in 223, considering a great deal of your fanbase first heard Wolfmother through playing "Woman" on the game.
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After what she described as a lucky break, Bergdorf Goodman became her first outlet in 1999; now, her Ippolita brand is a staple of fine jewelry departments in stores across North America.
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It would be easy to brush off Wigmore as a crackpot who came to America and got a lucky break, and it would be even easier to categorize her story as an anomaly.
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The world number two received an extraordinarily lucky break at the par-four 18th, where he hooked his drive over the out-of-bounds line and into the property of an adjacent house.
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" The cancellation of "Pan Am" after just 14 episodes was actually a lucky break, allowing her to take roles in Richard Curtis's romantic comedy "About Time" and then "The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Also, two separate trials would give the prosecution two separate opportunities, before different judges and different juries, to convict him — making it less likely a lucky break would get him off the hook entirely.
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In the CNBC interview, Hughes called his success at the social network a "lucky break," adding it would be difficult for many other Americans to make the money he made in three years time.
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Fast forward five years and the South Korean electronics giant that's now best known for producing pocket-sized explosives got what appears to be a lucky break from the highest court in the nation.
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He says he's made "half a billion dollars for three years of work " based on the value of his initial stock in Facebook, and his "lucky break " is exactly what's wrong with America today.
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But the compelling thing about Toomes is that, like a lot the very best comic villains, he's impossibly human — if he'd had even one lucky break, it seems, he wouldn't be on this path.
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At the par-five 13th, he got a lucky break when a poor drive ricocheted back into the fairway from where he failed to take advantage, finding the Rae's Creek tributary with his second shot.
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In an apparent lucky break for the United Nations, Salgado said the premises were empty at the time of the attack, barring a few guards, as the contingent was in the process of moving out.
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From Pressa's postponed ascent to Friyie's lucky break, from CMDWN's party-starting antics to Jimmy Prime reflecting on the '6ix' nickname he created, the doc is an unprecedented peek into a Toronto that few know.
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The city catches a lucky break, as the massive St. Johns fire is blown north into the wetlands along the Columbia River, and dies out after consuming all that there is to burn in the neighborhood.
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It temporarily disabled the computer systems at several British hospitals, forcing the diversion of ambulances and the rescheduling of operations, before it was stopped by the lucky break of a lone amateur who successfully defused it.
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The country's vertiginous change, incomprehensible to both, had sparked in each a kind of magical thinking, a frantic hope that life could be transformed by a lucky break, and it was this that had brought them together.
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"You know, the only thing we can call it is a lucky break," Hughes says of his wealth — $430 million as of December 2016, according to Forbes — on a recent episode of Kara Swisher's Recode Decode podcast.
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It's exactly the kind of lucky break this crew would stumble into — sort of like being kidnapped by a gang leader who wants to thank them rather than kill them (or at least not kill them immediately).
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PALERMO, Italy (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A four-year-old migrant girl who arrived in Italy alone from North Africa had an emotional reunion with her mother on Monday, months after a lucky break helped authorities trace the woman.
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And it was a lucky break: data only existed in most cases because the nearby M15 star cluster is such an interesting object in itself and the black hole happened to be in the same field of view.
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Now, thanks to Gavin Williamson's sacking over leaks from the National Security Council, she has been given another lucky break in the form of her promotion to defence secretary, making her the first woman to hold the position.
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Diving through a lucky break in the clouds, Romanovsky and his colleagues said they were confronted with a landscape that was unrecognizable from the pristine Arctic terrain they had encountered during initial visits a decade or so earlier.
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That's why catching the glacier calving on camera was such a lucky break for the researchers, and it was thanks to the foresight of Denise Holland, who coordinates logistics for research programs at NYU's New York and Abu Dhabi campuses.
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Clinton -- who got an enormously lucky break from the FBI Director, despite a criminal law that explicitly says it's a crime to do what she did (using gross negligence in mishandling classified docs) -- chowed down on BBQ at Midwood Smokehouse.
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In a lucky break that helped authorities to thwart a second detonation on Saturday, the men walked away with the bag after taking out what turned out to be a homemade bomb and leaving it exposed on the pavement on 27th Street.
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"Mayflower was saved before he could end up as a Thanksgiving table centerpiece, and he inspires us to work hard to spare other lovable birds just like him who are waiting for their lucky break this year," says PETA President Ingrid Newkirk.
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I recognize that I got a lucky break from my grandparents that let me start this process, but I believe that, by buying a less-nice car and saving a little on the side, this same strategy could work for most of us.
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Two years ago, a huge lucky break came in the form of the Panama Papers, a trove of data leaked from a Panamanian law firm that specialized in helping people hide their wealth in offshore havens, and a smaller leak from HSBC.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Tony Finau rode a lucky break to make a winning Ryder Cup debut at Le Golf National on Friday, as he and partner Brooks Koepka completed a superb comeback to give the visitors an invaluable point in the first match.
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Among those are some who think that it really is 1966 all over again, and that their band is just one lucky break away from permeating every jukebox and radio station and drive-in and high school dance across the land and across the sea.
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Peter Thiel, PayPal and Why Distribution Matters In his book 'Zero to One', Peter Thiel talks about how PayPal almost didn't survive were it not for their lucky break stumbling onto what would become their biggest distribution channel, growth engine, and eventual acquirer: eBay.
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He didn't have a savings account until he was 44 Bourdain revealed in 2017 that he was constantly in debt until he published Kitchen Confidential, which ended up clearing the way for his "lucky break" into the television world – and the cash that came with it.
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She also caught a lucky break: earlier in the day, the Clinton Foundation acknowledged receiving a federal subpoena for potentially sensitive documents about the charity, but the debate's moderators inexplicably did not ask any questions about the bombshell news, and Sanders did not raise the issue.
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Coach Massimiliano Allegri is a pragmatic character and his Juve side do not have an easily identifiable style of play, their strengths being their resilience, flexibility and an uncanny knack of always being able to step up a gear, or sometimes get a lucky break, when it matters.
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Charlotte is in a much worse position than, say, the Indiana Pacers or the Chicago Bulls, two teams that can either cash out on their franchise player and rebuild from the ground up, or catch a lucky break and add another All-Star to the one they already have.
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NAIROBI, April 7 (Reuters) - A lucky break allowed them to qualify for Rio de Janeiro but Kenya's female rugby players are hoping their involvement at the Olympic Games will bring a huge boost to a sport that is played by only a tiny minority of women in the East African nation.
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WADA, which will implement an updated Code in 2021, did not address the issue of athletes who were to miss the 2020 Games getting a lucky break and a chance to compete in Tokyo due to the postponement but need to ramp up testing after the problems of monitoring athletes because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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We looked at these beautiful creatures, whom we no longer thought of as aliens, and saw ourselves as we could be, if the lottery, or the bank, or our birthplace—if our genes, or a lucky break—if only— We listened raptly as they spoke in rich and melodious voices, voices we trusted implicitly, that called to mind loved ones and sympathetic teachers.
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It's the smartest mainstream film about class made in many years, and the fact that it is also supremely entertaining is just icing on the bloodied cake The Kims' son, Ki-woo (Choi Woo-sik), catches a lucky break when a buddy vouches for him to take over his gig as an English tutor for the teenage daughter of the wealthy Park family.
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I ended up wanting to write the book in order to partially tell my story and be clear that the financial reward that I got from three years' worth of work at Facebook was entirely disproportionate to the time and effort put in, but to also make the case that my story, which is nothing but ... You know, the only thing we can call it is a lucky break, is unfortunately not that uncommon in the economy today.
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