Sentence examples similar to affected by misfortune from inspiring English sources
Anxious Times at a Charity Louise Franklin has felt corporate America's pain, not least because the charity where she runs day-to-day operations and raises money, the Center for Attitudinal Healing in Sausalito, Calif., has been directly affected by its misfortunes.
In the same year, the then chief constable of Greater Manchester Police, James Anderton, claimed people were "swirling around in a human cesspit of their own making" and people affected by HIV were increasingly marginalised as authors of their own misfortune – the gay men with promiscuous pasts or the drug users who passed round dirty needles.
Children deeply affected Many children were deeply affected by their losses, anguished over the possibility of another such misfortune and refused to return to school.
The general principle of our law is that loss from accident must lie where it falls, and this principle is not affected by the fact that a human being is the instrument of misfortune...
Everybody's affected by that.
Roads affected by flood waters.
It is the deeply affecting story of a University of Missouri lecturer whose life is brushed throughout by misfortune and injustice.
In the words of a student of the problem, 'statements of profits are affected both by accounting methods and by the optimistic or pessimistic light in which the future is viewed at the time when the accounts are made up.' * * * These difficulties and dangers bear witness to the misfortune of forcing methods of taxation within a Procrustean formula.
There are several, including brittle, cursed and plagued by misfortune.
