Sentence examples for considered a misfortune from inspiring English sources

To misquote Lady Bracknell, to mess up one election may be considered a misfortune.

Poverty ought to be considered a misfortune rather than a moral failing".

Having a health minister who doesn't know the first thing about health might be considered a misfortune; to also have a justice minister who hasn't a clue about the processes of justice might be considered careless.

TO LOSE one prime minister might be considered a misfortune, but to lose six in less than four years in office, as Peru's president, Ollanta Humala, has done, must be seen as carelessness.

Contemporary historian William James described British reaction to the battle as "that the noble behaviour of her officers and crew threw such a halo of glory around the defeat at Grand Port, that, in public opinion at least, the loss of four frigates was scarcely considered a misfortune".

In many tribal areas of Islam, indeed even outside Islam, down the centuries it was considered a great misfortune to have a strikingly beautiful daughter for the same reason.

Here, indeed, are all the faces of an artist who felt it his duty never to confine himself to a unique style, for he considered it a misfortune to have a name, one to which he would be ascribed.

It has always been Peter Taylor's misfortune to be considered a "regional" writer, when, although most of his fiction is set in the South, over and over again he invented and explained a particular social tension to illustrate a universal point.

Monarchs have the misfortune to rely exclusively on a plant that farmers all across the Midwest and Northeast consider a weed.

I don't think that strategic errors and a bad reliability should be considered misfortune.

One or two muted big guns might be considered misfortune.