Sentence examples for diminished fortune from inspiring English sources

Today, even with his diminished fortune, he said his plans had not changed.

Armstrong's father, a lawyer and polymath whose grandfather had lost a fortune in the 1929 crash, disapproved of speculation, and he persuaded his son to put his diminished fortune in a fashionable but conservative investment vehicle called a mutual fund.

David Halliburton Jr. said that he and the other third-generation heirs inherited a "much diminished" fortune, including Halliburton stock, which crashed in 2001 when a subsidiary of the company settled an asbestos-related lawsuit.

In recent years, though, both Lewis and Sperling have passed away, Soros has pulled back on his pot-based philanthropy, and Zimmer finds himself with a diminished fortune after being fired from the company he founded in 2013.

The Z10 is the first of a series of smartphones based on a new operating system that BlackBerry hopes will revive its substantially diminished fortunes.

But visits to several wireless stores on Wednesday found striking differences in sales support for the product that BlackBerry, which is based in Waterloo, Ontario, hopes will revive its diminished fortunes.

William's descendants inherited a diminishing fortune.

But as the global recession tightens, Portland's docks are a snapshot of diminishing fortunes.

The price break since then can be seen as a measure of Mr. Gingrich's diminishing fortunes.

As layoffs increased and purchasing power declined, prices fell lower still, in a downward spiral of diminishing fortunes.

Still, by yesterday, Pettitte's first start in 19 days had escalated in significance because of the diminishing fortunes of the Yankees.