Sentence examples for double misfortune from inspiring English sources
MUMBAI, India — For several months, India has suffered the double misfortune of a slowing economy and high inflation.
"In the ungodly scheme of things," the old man reasons, "this was a story of double misfortune turned into multiple good luck".
Justin Martin, a former staff writer at Fortune magazine, had the double misfortune to publish a Greenspan biography within weeks of Woodward's, and not to have gained his subject's cooperation.
The sisters had the misfortune of finding themselves in a doubles semi-final at the same time as Andy Murray was stepping on to Centre Court.
It is Mr Duncan Smith's misfortune to have helped reunite the most formidable double act in politics.
Ventura had the misfortune of hitting ahead of Posada, who has a double and triple off Martínez this season but returned to his career pattern last night.
Civil servants, such as teachers, earn less than $100 a month at current exchange rates.The government blames the country's misfortunes on "external shocks", a catch-phrase that encompasses the double anguish of falling prices for cocoa, one of Ghana's main exports, and the rising cost of imported oil.
Misfortune has been piled on misfortune.
Also: misfortune hunters.
People suffered misfortune".
