| None of these assets made Catherine's worst times bearable, of course, but she was luckier than many. |
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| A woman of today can be considered luckier as she has a plethora of designs to choose from, from casual wear to party wear. |
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| How would he feel if his father had been gassed, shot or hung in Auschwitz or Dachau, instead of his luckier fate, enjoying a good, long life hurling insults at others? |
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| Even with all his suffering, he considers himself luckier than many Chinese. |
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| Lev, the son of a Moscow intelligentsia family, was luckier than the fictional Ivan Denisovich. |
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| Within moments, we were surrounded,' said Borik's aunt, Vala Hosanova Some of the children further back were luckier. |
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| But his successors, above all Mr Baghdadi, were cleverer and, perhaps, luckier. |
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| Chile was also luckier that the quake's epicentre was much deeper down in the earth than in Haiti, mitigating its destructive power. |
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| However, even taking into account the stress and insecurity, Kimberly, for the time being, is one of the luckier ones. |
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| I was luckier the year that followed, the team was looking for reinforcements and after another interview, I was selected. |
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| They would be given different sentences because one was luckier than the other. |
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| Children have been luckier in Algeria in recent years simply because earthquakes have tended to occur at night when they were not at school. |
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| The luckier one's get a fixed-term contract, sometimes for only a few days. |
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| I hope that the European Union is luckier in Portugal than the Russian writer was in Wiesbaden. |
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| We didn't have luck on our side in our two previous outings but in this game we were luckier. |
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| In fact, you will be luckier than most girls because you will have a different husband every night! |
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| In this respect, Welsh was luckier than its sister-tongue, Manx, which had been almost completely eradicated by the beginning of the 20th century. |
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| They were luckier than the seven who were shot on this same corer in February. |
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| Mind you, the hero of this novel certainly got luckier than I ever did! |
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| I know today that I am very very lucky to not have anything wrong with me, but I know that I'm even luckier just to be alive. |
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| His deep connections with the Czechoslovak opposition under communism gave him rare binocular vision, and an edginess towards those who focused only on the luckier western half of the continent. |
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| The school lost one of its two buildings to the tsunami, but its teachers count the school as one of the luckier ones: none of its students or staff died. |
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| Thankfully Australia was luckier with the incident involving the coal carrier Shen Neng 1, refloated on the morning of the conference opening after grounding on the Great Barrier of Reef. |
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| Today, young mothers are luckier than I was, because if you are pregnant and you go to a health centre for regular checkups, the government gives you a free net. |
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| We were much luckier than either Haiti or Chili. |
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| Apple growers were a little luckier as most varieties had already been picked, trucked to packing houses, packed and shipped or put into controlled-atmosphere storage. |
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| Catharine was luckier in her children and in the support she received from her Strickland relatives in Lakefield, particularly from Sam's sons Robert, Roland, Percy, and George and their wives. |
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| After that, her good luck charm needed a luckier habitat. |
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| Nhu thinks he has been much luckier than most of his compatriots. |
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| How the ants have persisted in spite of this threat, or whether they have just been luckier than other attempts to build equal societies, is so far unknown. |
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| To those people I say: the more you practise, the luckier you get. |
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| It was said that that year, 1982, was the year of indigenous people, it was the beginning of a new era and that they were luckier than us, in what they gained through the patriation of the Constitution. |
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| There was barbed wire between our country and the luckier part of Europe, but not even that was able to stop the unexpected effects of globalisation. |
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| Another child, slightly luckier, still has his bicycle. |
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| Because there has never been a luckier, jammier, flukier player to walk on to a pitch. |
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| However, Natalia is one of the luckier ones. |
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| That's really frustrating when you have a chance for that glory, to win a game where somebody's luckier than a two-dicked dog, and you just can't do it. |
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| Luckier was John Whitehead, bleacher of Lowercroft, who would have been aboard the Rothsay Castle but for a last-minute change of plan. |
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| Luckier still, we might find a vespers service at 7 p.m., and a much anticipated pilgrims' meal in a local restaurant. |
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