Sentence examples for bring ill from inspiring English sources

Mr. Solly was against this, saying the bird was a good luck symbol, & would bring ill fortune on one who destroyed him.

Watch Five Thirty's 13th Disciple here As for Five Thirty, you have to wonder if they didn't bring ill fortune upon themselves.

People with a severe drink-related liver disease are to be considered for transplant for the first time, reopening the debate over whether people who are thought to bring ill health on themselves deserve expensive treatment.

Many groups and individuals warned the council that the placing of a non-Christian artefact, based on an old curse on local families, would bring ill luck to the city". He won't say if he personally shivers under his duvet at night but, he insists, "I believe that enough people believe that bringing the curse back into the city has brought misfortune.

She gives me the slightest of knowing smiles and says: "Under the shah's regime [which fell to Ayatollah Khomeini's 1979 Islamic revolution], traditional males wouldn't allow their wives and daughters to go to university because they thought if men and women worked together that would bring ill fame on them.

It's as if there's a conspiracy of trends determined to bring ill fortune to Europe.

Dennis Posadas, Manila-based fellow of the Climate Institute in Washington and Philippine technology consultant, said climate change would bring ill-health and water rationing to cities such as Manila and Cebu, along with more intestinal and mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue fever, Japanese encephalitis and chikungunya fever.

These festivals have nothing to do with our culture and also that women should not work because their incomes bring ill-fate to a household.'.

"From where I sit: Dashed hope brings ill wind". Times Higher Education.

Some religions revere the snake as a representation of a deity, while other religions, such as Christianity, view the snake as an evil entity bent on bringing ill fortune, sin, and chaos to the world.

The ascent of Elohim entailed pain for Eden, whose consequent anger brought ills on humankind.