Sentence examples for break fortunes from inspiring English sources

FRANKFURT — Mario Draghi demonstrated last week how a few choice words from a central bank chief can make or break fortunes, even those of whole nations.

Then we'd know that the altruism and goodwill of the top 1% clearly does not rule out the power of bureaucrats and politicians to make and break fortunes.

And I think that the relatively unchecked power of government to make or break fortunes has made it more or less inevitable that corporations would in time end up writing their own regulations to their own advantage.

Shareholders won't be alone rooting for Bill Ackman, whose Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund revealed an 11 percent stake last week, to break Fortune up.

It took some time for Poor Tony to realize why; for an interval it had seemed like a break, fortune's one wan smile.

She is not a movie mogul, making or breaking fortunes with sideways glances.

"The American Friend" captures an authentic sense of homelessness at home, as if Wenders, a new international celebrity for "Kings of the Road," wanted to film the feeling of hitting the road under the malevolent guidance of sharks with money, spending too much time in trains and planes and hotels, consorting with shadowy figures who could make or break his fortunes.

All the confidence she had built up in the first three matches looked to be paying a more significant dividend, but she could not get that second break, then fortunes shifted back and forth like cargo on a boat in a storm for quarter of an hour.

Wigan continued the pressure after the break with Fortune again having a shot hacked off the line on 65 minutes, just seconds after Ryan Shotton's header was desperately cleared away.

However, McClellan soon received a miraculous break of fortune.

With a 9-year-old's fearlessness, she broke every fortune canon by revealing her heart's desire.