Sentence examples for fortunate to avoid from inspiring English sources

Replays suggest the goalkeeper was fortunate to avoid a red card.

Lambert has been fortunate to avoid too much criticism thus far.

Sandro, already on a yellow card, was fortunate to avoid a second booking for that challenge on Peres.

I was fortunate to avoid witnessing Dundee United winning their second major trophy, which happened to be against Dundee.

Marbury, who had gotten a technical foul earlier for yelling at the referees, was fortunate to avoid a seconds technical foul and ejection.

Asked whether the service had been fortunate to avoid serious riots, Hardwick said: "Managers nationally and locally have been very effective at spinning a lot of plates...

Mohamed Elneny was on the fortunate side to avoid a dismissal earlier in the game for taking down Nélson Oliveira.

If we are fortunate enough to avoid these tragedies, we still lose with nuclear weapons because of the extraordinary costs, which rob valuable resources.

But hold on, no, because "if there is a less enticing blot in this country than the haemorrhaging roadcrash of the area surrounding the [Stratford] transport-hub station", where the air is so bad that it requires "gills and built-in decontamination filters" to breathe, then Sinclair has "been fortunate enough to avoid it".

Colombia was fortunate enough to avoid becoming a failed state in large part to the US backed Plan Colombia operation.

Even seniors fortunate enough to avoid the horrors of Alzheimer's disease typically experience some declines in memory and other cognitive abilities.