Sentence examples for A string of misfortunes from inspiring English sources

Alas, Thailand has since suffered a string of misfortunes: bird flu, last year's tsunami, a prolonged drought and an intensifying insurgency in some Muslim areas.

Since the Second Anglo-Dutch War began in 1665, England had suffered a string of misfortunes, including the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London.

Jake (Cam Gigandet) is a morose young man in Berkeley, Calif., who becomes even more so when, on his birthday, he is hit with a string of misfortunes — including losing his job and his girlfriend — that strains credulity.

The previous day, moreover, he received news that his mother was involved in a car accident in Paris, the latest in a string of misfortunes that had bedeviled his family in recent months.

It's only the latest in a string of misfortunes to strike bitcoin – the first of a generation of crypto-currencies: digital coinage not backed by any government or institution.

Then her life unraveled in a string of misfortune.

More importantly, it terminated a string of misfortune which Conor O'Shea, the director of rugby, described as unparallelled in his five years at the club.

He is a major reason why the Tigers, who play Louisville this afternooon in a Final Four semifinal game, have overcome a string of misfortune and are two victories from the national championship.

But a string of recent misfortunes is enough to make even the most determined suitor think twice.

Aside from pilot error, Colonel Schell listed a string of mistakes and misfortunes as secondary reasons for the fiery midair collision, including the failure by air traffic controllers in Angola, Namibia's northern neighbor, to correct the German plane's altitude or inform it of the approaching cargo plane.

The devastation wreaked on Haiti by Hurricane Matthew last fall was just the latest in a seemingly endless string of misfortunes that have befallen that country, which in March concluded a year-long interlude of caretaker governance by installing banana exporter Jovenel Moïse as its 58th president.