Sentence examples for causes of misfortune from inspiring English sources

Besides prayers and invocations, means of communication with the divine include the interpretation of dreams and especially the practice of lubuko (divination) to consult the will of the ancestors before any important decision or to know the causes of misfortune.

The Women Not Witches project endeavors to educate locals in remote communities about the natural causes of misfortune, and underscore to them that the killing of people accused of witchcraft is a criminal offence.

Karl Schnibbe, a former member quoted by Bartoletti, says, "We were always told that Jews were the cause of our misfortune".

We also need to change the language and thinking that tends to victimise black communities as being a cause of their misfortune.

Her plight has made her a local celebrity and a symbol for a mourning nation, and she abhors the attention as if it were the cause of her misfortune.

There he explains how the sins of the crusaders were the cause of their misfortune and failures.

Although the cause of his misfortunes may remain a mystery, the effect is painfully quantifiable.

To date, the cause of their misfortunes has been their onetime guardian, Count Olaf, who hopes to steal their fortune.

When the writer was a child, his father, who felt the writer was the cause of his misfortunes, accidentally knocked him unconscious with a baseball.

The New Yorker, September 26 , 1953 P. 29When the writer was a child, his father, who felt the writer was the cause of his misfortunes, accidentally knocked him unconscious with a baseball.

By John Cheever The New Yorker, September 26 , 1953P. 29 When the writer was a child, his father, who felt the writer was the cause of his misfortunes, accidentally knocked him unconscious with a baseball.