Sentence examples for far more fortunate from inspiring English sources

Sometimes I feel that I am far more fortunate than I deserve to be.

Far more fortunate has been Kim Clijsters, who has now called two classy retirements, even if Wednesday's defeat to Laura Robson was on a two-thirds-empty Ashe court.

He counts himself far more fortunate than many other erstwhile Iraqi professionals — the college teacher who now delivers pizzas; the widely published literary critic who, having failed at carpentry, is now on welfare.

Ms. Conway and her daughter know that though they are worse off than some, they are far more fortunate than those who lost everything to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.

Ms. Deen, facing that specific kind of theological court, is likely to be far more fortunate with it than with the commercial partners like the Food Network and Walmart that have dropped her. African-American Christians, drawing on both the Jesus narrative and the civil rights movement, have become well-practiced at forgiving their racist tormentors for both idealistic and practical reasons.

For our group of women, usually far more financially fortunate than most New York residents, life in such a rarefied world is at times embarrassing: while the world is coming unhinged, there we are having conversations about the best place for infants to take gymnastics.

Such children are far more likely than their more fortunate peers to do poorly in school, to drop out early, to be functionally illiterate, and to be only marginally employable in today's increasingly high-technology world.

Not far from where they live, other more fortunate people only have to wait weeks.

"What I've put in is far more than I expected, but I was in a fortunate position where we could restructure the debt.

Our governments, national and local, New York City included, need to do far more than they have been doing to assist the least fortunate in our midst.

We are fortunate that Princeton's applicant pool includes many academically strong candidates, far more than we can admit.