Sentence examples for broken fortunes from inspiring English sources

The recent volatility and misdemeanors are all part of building the brave new world, the broken fortunes of a few paving the path to good money for us all.

A new race must arise on the broken fortunes of the present".

William James came to regard his father as a crank, and Jane Maher, in her book, A Biography of Broken Fortunes: Wilkie and Bob, Brothers of William, Henry and Alice James (1986), tells how the two lesser known brothers descended into bankruptcy, bitterness and madness.

At the heart of that plot there are still "two gentlemen of broken fortunes," as Farquhar's original text has it, who become male gold diggers.

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.

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.

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.

"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.