Sentence examples for broken fortune from inspiring English sources

Through them may walk an old lover, a man of mysterious broken fortune and lowered eyes, a pilot just returned and wondering who will buy dinner.

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.

Do they too understand the importance of breaking fortune cookies with kin who sometimes feel akin to aliens?

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

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.

News has also broken about Fortune 500 companies like Chevron, Bank of America, AT&T and IBM using inmate labor at private prisons, meaning they can slap a "Made in the USA" sticker on a product made by someone working for slave wages.

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

Outside the tomb, Muslims wishing for sons or for better fortune, break coconuts, as Hindus do at their temples.

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