Sentence examples for for misfortune from inspiring English sources

For misfortune to occur so early in the tournament is a bad sign.

India has often been a magnet for misfortune, fund managers said.

Then, of course, given the Nets' penchant for misfortune, came the calamity.

Then there are families like the Plosses, who seem to draw troubles like powerful magnets for misfortune.

Among friends, Hafiz was known to have a short temper and a harrowing repertoire of khairey — the distinctive Pashto prayers for misfortune.

These tribes believe in a high god, a supreme being, who rules everything and is also responsible for misfortune and death.

"She looked at me with bitter compassion as one might look at a little cripple boy, because she alone knew what a family ours was for misfortunes".

Due to three emotions, however —simulatio or deception, pietas or patriotism, and miseratio or pity for misfortunes of others — we all carry war around within ourselves.

Instead, they understand that they must look for possible external causes for others' misfortune just as they would do for themselves.

This has made it natural or "selbstverständlich" for German public opinion to blame the heavily indebted countries for their misfortune.

For Pitney misfortune was strictly business.