Sentence examples for extraordinary fortune from inspiring English sources

That's a tough challenge for a limited comedy actor who had the extraordinary fortune to become a multimillionaire global star.

Fagan's story is one of extraordinary fortune and disappointment, a tale that takes in abject poverty in the US Virgin Islands, the height of the Greenwich Village folk scene, love, alcoholism, Jasper Johns, the Magnetic Fields and some of the biggest names in music.

Omitting the few conspicuous instances in which actual earners of money make extraordinary fortunes by exceptional personal gifts or strokes of luck, the existing differences of income among workers are not individual but corporate differences.

The charges that state prosecutors released on Thursday against Mr. Lebedev are a chilling description of the devious ways in which the budding oligarchs manipulated Russia's chaos in early post-Communist years to amass and conceal extraordinary fortunes.

They have reaped extraordinary fortunes.

My mother died of breast cancer when I was nine, and in my mind I reframed her death as a stroke of extraordinary good fortune.

Through a mixture of unusual political talent and extraordinary good fortune, Mr Chávez managed to make himself into a world figure, perhaps the best-known Latin American after his friend and idol, Fidel Castro.

Regarding "Creating Sabbath Peace Amid the Noise" (Sunday Styles, July 18), my wife, our sons and I have the extraordinary good fortune of living in the same small town with the rest of my wife's family.

But they may just be the result of being way too insulated – by hereditary privilege, wealth, class, extraordinary good fortune and his tight-knit Mormon social world – from ordinary people and their concerns.

The idea is that Ashley (Ms. Lohan) is blessed with extraordinary good fortune, which means she can always find a cab, is never caught in traffic or bad weather, and coasts upward at her job at a public relations firm.

Nothing, that is, except perhaps a decline in the price of oil, on which the government depends for nearly half its revenue.It has been Mr Chávez's extraordinary good fortune that the price of oil increased more than sixfold since he took office in 1999 to its peak last year.