| The lottery win seemed like conclusive proof that Kiron existed, but in reality, it was no proof at all. |
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| Another important factor in playing the lottery is to play within your means. |
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| Arkansans defeated the plan to create a state lottery and legalize casino gambling in six counties. |
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| A warm Saturday night in June, and most are likely to be out revelling, or sat at home with lottery numbers in hand. |
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| You might think, for instance, that winning the lottery would be a life-changing event that would brighten your outlook for years to come. |
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| That evening's television news and the next day's newspapers were full of stories about the lottery winner who had taken the cash. |
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| The last lightship in Scotland has been given a substantial lottery grant to prevent it from falling into dereliction. |
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| If a friend wins the lottery, the only way I'm going to be excited is if they sign the cheque over to me. |
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| Your lucky colour is aquamarine and you have absolutely no chance of winning the lottery. |
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| When the business floats later this month, she and work partner will be rich beyond the dreams of even a rollover lottery winner. |
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| Did you hear about the lobsterman who won a million dollars in the lottery? |
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| Local artists were encouraged by the American Art Union, founded in 1839 to buy paintings for distribution by lottery. |
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| The newly launched state lottery was being subsidised by the government, who had got their sums wrong. |
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| Events were held around the country at sites that have benefited from lottery cash. |
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| Student music can often seem like a bit of a gamble, if not a complete lottery, as far as an evening out is concerned. |
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| And I think most people will be quite happy with the normal genetic lottery. |
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| This inconsistency is infuriating clubs and leaving them feeling that the whole process is something of a lottery. |
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| After all success with Atlantic Salmon is still the biggest lottery in fishing. |
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| After that, it is a complete and utter lottery, but Spurs are a good cup team, and definitely worth a pound or two. |
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| That lasted for a couple hundred years, but the church just couldn't get the old Lupercalian lottery expunged from the people's memory. |
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| Then, I saw a lottery ticket that I think someone had tacked up on the wall. |
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| The advent of online lotteries had a bad effect on the State lottery, as fortune seekers began to take to the former. |
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| We won't see big Lassie tails on schnauzers, or curly pug tails on pit-bulls, but it is a bit of a lottery. |
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| He also pointed out that voluntary labour is now accepted as a source of matching funding in projects as is funding from the national lottery. |
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| Make a car thief a lottery millionaire and it will not immediately improve his sense of etiquette. |
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| Police arrested the threesome on the grounds of selling illegal lottery tickets and brought them to the police station. |
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| Make a chart and list all your fixed and variable expenses, down to your weekly lottery ticket purchases. |
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| In the morning, I stumbled out to the newsagent to buy a lottery ticket to send my sister for her birthday. |
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| The odds are so unfavourable that unless you really liked to take on risks at unfavourable odds why would you ever buy a lottery ticket? |
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| A lottery determined by the Commissioner-General to be a foreign lottery is 50 toea per ticket. |
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| While the average big jackpot lottery winner receives 10,000 begging letters, Dolores is expected to receive multiples of that. |
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| The defendant purchased a ticket for a lottery sponsored by a local service club. |
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| Before the tender, the lottery and the Bulgarian sports totalisator will be transformed into a joint stock company. |
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| There is no way any of us are going to get her an elite card, not even if we won a million on the lottery. |
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| The impact from the government's lottery is illegal individual betting on the last two or three digits of the first prize of the lottery. |
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| About half a billion in tax and lottery money has been poured into British sport over the past four years. |
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| He has received a significant amount of lottery funding, and one trusts that his future will be guaranteed, too. |
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| Coupled to a national lottery, the VAT tax could put the government back in the black. |
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| Among suggestions from both surfers and authorities are fees, sign-up times, or even a lottery system for permits. |
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| Bobby and Ricky are two-bit boxers who have about as much chance of reaching the big time as they have of winning the lottery. |
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| The ultimate decision could lie with the ABA and the lottery funding and sponsorship deals they can come up with. |
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| Somehow avoiding the curse of having been partially lottery funded, this is unchallenging but happy and entertaining stuff. |
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| The lottery grant also funded two ski tows, car parking facilities and floodlighting. |
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| Seriously, you gotta love the bogans who plan to celebrate their lottery win with a meal of champagne and pizza. |
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| The numbers smashed its 100,000 minimum target for lottery funding and compare favourably with Scotland's top attractions. |
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| The fact the lottery is entirely random, and therefore unselective, seems to have been temporarily forgotten. |
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| The number Neapolitans associate with miracles, 66, came up in the national lottery on May 6th. |
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| Closing lottery outlets is unfair to the players, unfair to the shopkeepers and financially unwarranted. |
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| Camelot, the company that runs Britain's national lottery, has had its ups and downs. |
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| So, what happens when you solipsistically command the universe to award you several million dollars by lottery? |
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| A postcode lottery of legal aid is leaving desperate people with nowhere to turn for help on problems such as homelessness and domestic violence. |
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| He had never entered the lottery before and he had assumed that his entry form would be stamped with a code of some sort. |
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| It is not a crime to buy a lottery ticket, even in an illegal numbers games. |
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| The breeding of half-breds is a lottery, in which the percentage of prizes is small. |
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| The lottery money will go towards the completion of the new stand and the conversion of the pitch into an all weather surface. |
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| Many people who play the lottery tend to forget about, or pay scant attention to, the odds of winning. |
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| I was ready to retire to an island resort with my winning lottery ticket and a harem of attentive lovers. |
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| Jimmy was nearly disqualified under the rule that says you have to present an unlikely tale of outrageous fortune to claim a lottery prize. |
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| The whole thing's a geographical lottery at the moment, and it's high time the system was overhauled. |
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| The USA has always stylized the founding of the West, from lottery like homesteading to the perverse pull of the rush for gold. |
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| I honestly believe that lottery money will be forthcoming but I cannot say to what level. |
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| A Yorkshire hospice for sick and dying children is poised to win a massive lottery boost, it was reported today. |
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| He propped open the door of the paper shop while a couple of mates bought lottery tickets. |
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| See six magpies and win the national lottery, see seven and your hands are blown off by a parcel bomb. |
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| The lottery is a metaphor for what can happen to any parent, mother or father, and their children, at the hands of the secret family courts. |
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| The lottery prize pool would be divided appropriately, pari-mutuel style, among the winning lottery players. |
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| Defiant Castle Point Bowls Club is revamping its plans for a state-of-the-art new clubhouse after missing out on a national lottery grant. |
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| School admissions will not be a lottery, if anything the process will be more straightforward. |
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| A pensioner who wins the lottery or inherits an unexpected fortune could continue to claim the government's new flagship benefit. |
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| Those are people who inherited large sums of money, won the lottery, or sold their Internet businesses for billions of dollars. |
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| She looked young, vital, pert, drop-dead-gorgeous and as happy as a lottery winner. |
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| Some of those involved at the inception of the lottery admit mistakes have been made. |
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| Imagine you've come into a sum of money, such as a bequest or a lottery win. |
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| Sure, the lottery has produced winners, including a number of instant millionaires. |
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| The money people spend playing the lottery keeps some of these taxes from going up. |
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| We all know, though, that it is impossible to predict the winner once the play-off lottery kicks off. |
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| For example, the machines might resemble the contraptions used by the state lottery agencies to determine winning numbers. |
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| The centre would be funded through developers' contributions and additional lottery grants. |
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| A two-piece suit from this guy comes in at a cool two grand, so is unlikely to be realistic unless I win the lottery. |
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| So next time you see a friend with a flashy car, go easy on those wild assumptions about lottery wins. |
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| One bit of evidence Storr gives is the asue, a collective pool that pays off to one of its members via a lottery draw. |
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| They called on the Government to make the care of allergy sufferers a full part of the NHS, rather than a postcode lottery. |
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| Once a beneficial test has been licensed the challenge is to avoid a postcode lottery in its use. |
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| The parking needs of people with disabilities must not be decided by what is effectively a postcode lottery. |
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| Patients will always face a postcode lottery for NHS treatment, a Bolton MP claimed. |
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| Stronger local accountability can be a powerful antidote to the postcode lottery. |
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| There will also be a drive to eliminate the postcode lottery across the country on the cancer fighting drugs approved by Nice. |
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| The postcode lottery of eligibility criteria needs seriously to be examined. |
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| The postcode lottery through which people in different council areas pay widely varying costs for their social service support is to be ended. |
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| Critics say the changes won't make all that much difference to what is a grossly unjust postcode lottery. |
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| It means there will be a postcode lottery in the prescribing of Herceptin for early-stage breast cancer. |
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| Teenage mums say Swindon fares well in the postcode lottery that dictates whether girls who fall pregnant receive a decent education. |
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| Cancer patients in the region are facing a huge postcode lottery for life-saving treatment, the Yorkshire Post can reveal today. |
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| New figures reveal a postcode lottery is governing police responses to 999 calls with Sutton emerging below the London average. |
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| Now, admittedly this could be seen as a neat counterpoint to the national lottery, which is a tax on stupidity. |
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| Until a couple of weeks ago, I had only ever bought a couple of lottery tickets, I've never even played on a fruit machine. |
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| They also secured lottery funding last year and will now have to raise further funds to finance the work. |
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| Martin, who is the best man to ever walk the earth, can't get lottery funding for love nor money. |
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| The lottery comes as the Cabinet plans for a new lottery for gambling on professional baseball and billiards. |
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| They didn't waste time on get-rich-quick schemes or waste money on expensive cars or trying to win the lottery. |
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| Not only that but it has the same probability of happening as you buying two winning lottery tickets in one week. |
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| But if the proposal went down well, more detailed plans could be drawn up and applications for lottery and other funding begun. |
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| To help defray the cost of this development the club recently launched a private members lottery syndicate over a 12-month period. |
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| In turn they are funders by proxy, having been delegated by the Arts Council to allocate lottery funding for film in Northern Ireland. |
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| When the Government deserts them, who else is there to listen to the plight of the lottery people? |
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| The constant rain, the greasy pitch and the slippery ball all conspired to turn this contest into something of a lottery. |
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| The award of lottery and European cash marks the end of a five-year campaign to replace dilapidated facilities in Scotchman Road. |
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| The draws for the state lottery look place in the Guildhall in London before a noisy and enthusiastic crowd. |
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| Perhaps even more surprising is the fact that it is one of the more successful films made with lottery cash. |
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| Yet somehow the worthies who distribute our lottery money could not see that. |
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| Betting on football is illegal in Hong Kong, which permits wagers only on horse racing and a numbers game lottery. |
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| Such awards seem excessive both by absolute standards and by comparison with losers in the litigation lottery, who get nothing. |
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| Rumours are sweeping Cricklade that a lucky resident has scooped the lottery jackpot. |
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| One example cited is the closure in 1998 of a south Wales oil company when its lottery syndicate hit the jackpot. |
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| The entire nation passes the useless time watching the coloured balls wheek round each Saturday lottery evening. |
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| Graham was kidnapped a month after the lottery win and his kidnapper demanded a ransom. |
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| Bowling enthusiasts in Castle Point were celebrating today after landing a lottery windfall. |
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| A massive lottery windfall has secured the future of one of Southampton's best-known and most historically important landmarks. |
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| Somehow we got talking about the lottery and he told me he had just kicked the habit. |
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| The last surviving assassin, Tito still deals in luck and fate, selling lottery tickets from a kiosk. |
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| Town officials expect the numbers to grow as word gets around about the lottery. |
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| With lottery scams, people are told they have won the lottery, but then told they must pay a fee before the money can be released. |
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| Participants select six numbers between zero and nine to take part in the lottery, which runs from Monday to Friday. |
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| A couple of weeks ago I bought ten pounds worth of lottery tickets. |
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| Bartiromo will grab a Slim Jim and a Red Bull, and maybe a scratcher lottery ticket from the machine. |
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| On the way home, we stopped for some gas and lottery tickets. |
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| It's the first time cameras have been allowed behind the scenes of lottery operator Camelot, and this rather amateurish film reveals what happens once a win is confirmed. |
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| The organisers of the French national lottery had miscalculated the odds, and if someone were to buy up all the tickets they would automatically make a huge profit. |
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| On a whim, he bought two more lottery tickets in early July of this year. |
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| Meanwhile in Cardiff, having rejected Hadid, they have built a graceless hulk called the Millennium Stadium right in the city centre, with lottery money. |
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| Most of us have some experience of winning the odd tenner on the lottery. |
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| If I ever win the lottery, I'd offer my services gratis to these fine institutions and show them how one really determines whether or not someone qualifies for coverage. |
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| Camelot, which has ploughed thousands in lottery profits into the four in which Pinsent and Cracknell will now row, may have stumbled on a bonanza of big-screen proportions. |
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| Selecting legislators by lottery was good enough for the ancient Athenians. |
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| No matter how much money the Koch brothers or Tom Steyer spend, they cannot convince a lottery to choose one person over another. |
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| It is playing the lottery, and while the odds are stacked against it, sometimes people win the lottery. |
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| The importance of sellers was emphasised when after the draw it was decided to distribute lots of five lottery tickets to all who had sold two cards or more. |
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| The postcode lottery is particularly pronounced in the health service. |
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| Couples desperate for children are facing a postcode lottery for fertility treatment in Yorkshire despite new rules about free NHS treatment for all. |
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| Bereaved parents in Yorkshire face a postcode lottery in standards of investigations into the tragic deaths of their children, experts admitted yesterday. |
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| Cynics have long derided the supposed lottery curse as a fraud, chalking it up to inflated media coverage of such deaths. |
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| Regardless of the evidence, the lottery ticket is a bearer note, which means whoever turns in a valid ticket is legally entitled to the winnings, end of story. |
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| Beneficiaries of Taiwan's new computerized lottery include two Siamese twins who made headlines in 1979 when they were successfully separated by a surgical operation. |
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| I thought it was better odds than the lottery, but you live and learn. |
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| And perhaps such a chance encounter could turn out to be the equivalent of winning the lottery, when a minor favour to an incognito king brought great reward. |
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| Why would you bother submitting yourself to trial by lottery in this way? |
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| Given where his life appeared to be headed, Henderson isn't sure whether it's more remarkable that he stopped abusing alcohol and drugs or won the lottery. |
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| The Club is now selling annual membership to its weekly lottery. |
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| This is a piffling amount, considering the millions of pounds of public lottery cash which has been spent on fabulous reconstructions of the city's cultural palaces. |
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| The truth is, I've never bought a state lottery ticket in my life. |
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| By 1988 she was guesting on national television's New Year's Eve national lottery, run by the Finanza, the same tax authorities that last week put her in handcuffs. |
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| Finally, there is no better stocking filler than a lottery ticket. |
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| Anyone aged over 16 can take part in the lottery, giving them the chance of winning big money prizes and also contributing to the hospice through a regular payment. |
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| His very poor punch resistance offsets his physical gifts, which makes every trip into the ring against top level opposition something of a lottery. |
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| So it caught our attention this week when the wife of a winner of one of the biggest single lottery jackpots ever awarded said she wished she had torn up that ticket. |
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| This has led to a postcode lottery over how long couples must wait. |
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| Some believe in a God who makes traffic lights turn green, who turns lottery tickets into sweepstake winners, and turns rain on a picnic day into sun. |
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| He is also said to have thrown food at away fans, disrupted a lottery draw and had a tussle with Norwich City's director of football Brian Hamilton. |
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| That is good news, because numbers games are already a curse in most betting shops, and what is betting on the lottery if not just another numbers racket? |
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| When you win, it's a big party and the lottery sends out the invitations and all the chickens come home to roost. |
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| I'm sure one of us must know someone important on that lottery whatsit? |
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| The Ticket Window, sometimes known as a ticket ballot or lottery, will give every applicant an equal chance of getting seats for individual matches. |
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| A flashy tosspot TV weatherman living beyond his means, his lotto hostess girlfriend and a dodgy mate try to rig a lottery win, but have trouble collecting. |
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| The writing and publishing whirligig is, if you will, a lottery. |
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| The service is a result of the lottery operator's promise to use interactive services to sell tickets, which it made when rebidding for the contract. |
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| The other day when I was standing in the line, waiting to buy a scratchie, I saw a sign for the Powerball draw and, on impulse, I bought a lottery ticket! |
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| The probability of winning lottery prizes are the basic risk dimensions that may help determine whether a person gambles on a particular activity in the first place. |
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| The Ministry of Finance will be in charge of the state lottery, while the sports totaliser will remain under the supervision of the Ministry of Youth and Sports. |
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| It's more akin to buying a lottery ticket than paying for a service. |
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| This is a piffling amount, considering the millions of pounds of public lottery cash which has been spent on fabulous reconstructions of Glasgow's cultural palaces. |
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| It has also been responsible for the new tone of lottery publicity, with its emphasis on what the cash will be used for, as much as the possibility of winning. |
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| A few minutes ago, I stood in a supermarket queue a couple of places behind a woman who bought fifty pounds' worth of lottery tickets on her credit card. |
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| It was construed by others as a challenge to the institution of land markets understood as a lottery, a mode of betting on the results of future population growth. |
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| If the DEA obliges, they may soon be hitting the farming lottery. |
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| He's such a lucky devil that he'll probably win the lottery someday. |
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| Allocability can be achieved by time-sharing and by lottery, as well as by division. |
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| When the lottery results were announced, he was stunned to learn that the big enchilada was all his. |
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| We mostly talked about his mother's illness, but he told me in passing that he'd won a small prize in the lottery. |
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| I doubt I'll ever win the lottery, but as long as I buy a ticket I'm in with a chance. |
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| What help children at risk get depends on the postcode lottery and varies between local authorities. |
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| After she won the lottery, Marge had long-lost relatives she didn't know from a bar of soap come up to her to ask for money. |
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| In 1813, four years after his death, the Society was dissolved and a lottery was held to dispose of its assets. |
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| While on the gambling commission, one of his recommendations, ignored at the time, was for a national lottery. |
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| Since 2010 it has also been possible for projects in the Isle of Man to receive national lottery Good Causes Funding. |
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| Like several other northeastern states, New York has also legalized various forms of lottery and number games. |
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| In August 2012 EuroMillions lottery winner Les Scadding succeeded Chris Blight as club chairman. |
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| The convenience store was a heavily travelled point in her daily orbit, as she purchased both cigarettes and lottery tickets there. |
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| It is unique in that its programme will be chosen by lottery to ensure that it remains accessible and open to all comers. |
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| The radio station is funded in part by a local weekly lottery, licensed by the Council for the Isles of Scilly. |
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| Also in 2002, Tennessee amended the state constitution to allow for the establishment of a lottery. |
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| There is no shortage of ravening friends and relatives on the day one hits the lottery. |
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| And Carrick likens it to a beach ball and feels it is threatening to turn the World Cup into a lottery. |
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| Renny Monk mixed up the six and the nine ball live on air as she announced the results of the New York state lottery. |
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| A lottery is set up to determine who can leave the bunker and travel to the Island, purportedly to begin repopulating the world. |
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| So the double resigner from Cabinets should get off his high horse and answer questions about how he won the lottery without buying a ticket. |
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| The big lottery of metropolitan success and bestsellerdom sits out there like gold at the end of the rainbow. |
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| In his forties and refreshingly unpompous, he does a vast amount of good works for those less blessed in life's lottery than himself. |
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| Tommy Heinsohn will represent the Celtics in the lottery and his wife, Helen, plans to load him up with scapulars. |
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| The game has been given the green light by the lottery watchdog Oflot after weeks of difficult negotiations. |
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| Last night, the lottery watchdogs Oflot promised an inquiry into the fiasco. |
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| A Minnesota City man has beaten long odds with a scratch-off lottery ticket. |
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| It may be necessary to hold a lottery supervised by an independent scrutineer. |
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| Upon graduation, Palast received a high lottery number that kept him out of Indochina. |
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| The winning lottery numbers and foretold riches never arrived. |
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| The district court held that lack of marketability likely reduced the value of the taxpayer's remaining lottery prize payments and that the Sec. |
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| A garbage collector who won a pounds 6 million lottery jackpot plans to keep working for two and a half years. |
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| The comedian is famous for his monologue about winning the lottery. |
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| One is to put sideboards on a lottery operation that has helped create a dismayingly large number of problem gamblers across the state. |
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| Michelle, who works for the Myton Hospice lottery, was a self-confessed tanorexic. |
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| He made a sky-diving jump to celebrate his lottery win explaining it as part of the sky-diving tradition. |
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| I think it's actually grounds for the Senate Rules Committee to give the acting lottery director a thumbs down. |
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| Heart attack patients also face a postcode lottery to see if they will be prescribed drugs, including Ticagrelor. |
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| These are state-owned lottery operator Totalisator, Olympic Entertainment Group, ZPR Casinos and Century Casinos. |
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| The Treasure State has recently clamped down on lottery tags, and hunting there is not always a high-odds opportunity. |
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| My proctologist says I won the lottery, but somehow I don't feel very lucky. |
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| They live in rundown apartment blocks, their lives enlivened by beer, football and, dream on Proles, the lottery. |
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| The lower casino tax to complement the tourism industry must therefore be balanced against the increased substitutionary effects on the more heavily taxed lottery industry. |
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| The bow-tied South Carolinian got the lottery up and running quickly. |
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| It's called the ghetto lottery. Perp got handled a little too rough by a cop? He calls the People's Law office and sues the department for millions. |
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| Professor Richards said the post code lottery existed not because of a lack of funding to buy the drugs,but because of alack of pharmacists,doctors,or facilities. |
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| The survey resulted in a successful bid for lottery funding to create new opportunities and training to increase employment opportunities in the area. |
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| With seating limited to under 500 per show, the chance to purchase tickets was determined by a postcard lottery, with each winner allowed two tickets. |
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| But seldom has an example of a postcode lottery been so blatant, so heart-rendingly unjust and acutely damning as that concerning young mum-of-two Samantha Cousins. |
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| Undaunted, she contacted OFLOT, then the lottery watchdog body. |
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| Art unions, on the other hand, bought paintings directly from the artists in their studios, exhibited and sold them at their galleries, and distributed them by lottery. |
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| New Zealand-based provider of crime analytics software, Wynyard Group, has won a three-year deal from Tatts Group, an Australian lottery, wagering and gaming firm. |
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| Tynwald receives the 12p lottery duty for tickets sold in the Island. |
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| We could go out and buy lottery tickets, vote, play putt-putt golf. |
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| The couple regularly buy four Lucky dips from the supermarket on Chester Road for Wednesday's lottery, and four chosen numbers for Saturday's big draw. |
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| The conversion for athletics use was a condition of part of the lottery funding the stadium received, but to convert it would take weeks of work and cost millions of pounds. |
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| The odds that Peta is only receiving unadoptable animals are about the same as me winning the lottery and being struck by lightning on the same day. |
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