In ancient China, betrothal decisions could depend on fortune tellers reading birth charts.
"A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence", Chinese Proverb.
Before he left Pakistan in 2002, after falling out with Gen. Pervez Musharraf, he had worked for both his country's leading political figures — Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto — switching from one to the other with dispatch, depending on whose fortunes were rising.
I change my underwear at least daily depending on the fortunes of the day itself.
If Pennington can return, the Jets will have a delicate decision to make, depending on their fortunes.
But it's true that my mood can soar or sag rather alarmingly depending on the fortunes of my Red Sox.
Depending on economic fortunes and fluctuations, as well as the logic of the developing system itself, countries can move in and out of these categories.
The morning of Brazil's World Cup semifinal match against Turkey on June 26, David Melendez, 41, a Los Angeles native and a director of development at Cal State Northridge, sat in his dark living room in sneakers and sweats at 4 30 a.m., sitting up or putting his hands over his mouth depending on the fortunes of Brazil, his pick.
He is Paul G. Allen, who bounces around from being the second- to the fourth-richest person on the planet, depending on the fortunes of the stock of the Microsoft Corporation, which he co-founded 25 years ago with a middle-school chum, William H. Gates.
In old-time Hollywood style, "The Yards" also gives Leo a long-suffering, physically fragile mother of the sort that the Cagney character would call "Ma," as in "Aw, Ma!" Val Ellen Burstynn) who has been living for her son's return, is the kind of doting but perpetually weepy mother whose heart condition dramatically improves or worsens depending on the fortunes of her fugitive boy.
Depending on his fortunes in next week's Track World Championships in London, Mark Cavendish will face a quandary over his intention to target an Olympic gold medal together with stage wins and the yellow jersey in the Tour de France a few weeks earlier.
