Sentence examples for avoid the misfortune of from inspiring English sources

The Katsanovs, who used to be such a happy and united family did not avoid the misfortune of those days.

In earthquake zones, collectors store their china in special padded containers and use quakeproof locks on their cabinets, to avoid the misfortune suffered by a friend of mine in California, whose antique Royal Doulton service for 12 sustained casualties during a big quake.

With London 2012 only two weeks away, Zara Phillips is hoping to avoid the misfortune which has ruled her out of the past two Games.

In any society Fallada would have struggled, but he had the supreme misfortune to be born at a time when writers who wanted to avoid the attentions of the Gestapo could choose between compromise, silence or exile.

Half-time emails "Rob, I was avoiding having any opinion on the wretched Terry-Bridge nonsense, until yesterday I had the misfortune of stumbling across the Daily Mail's opinion on the situation.

This expedition had the misfortune of an unusually early monsoon.

"The misfortune of one person becomes the misfortune of a whole family," a human-rights activist explained.

The misfortune of others was the happiness of the man.

The theme has the misfortune of being inexhaustible.

I thought again about the misfortune of the name.

A similar sangfroid attends the misfortune of several other miscreants.