Sentence examples for fortunate to be present from inspiring English sources

Wembley's seats will need a refurb; those fortunate to be present were on the edge of them from first to last.

I was fortunate to be present at the birth of this powerful project.

I was fortunate to be present with former U.S. Defense Secretary Bob McNamara and former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, the legendary "Mr. Nyet," the man whom Stalin sent to Washington, D.C., in 1949, who had spent his career building Soviet power.

"We were very fortunate to be presenting arguments attacking the Jim Crow legal system at a time when the majority of the court wanted to do away with Jim Crow," Mr. Nabrit recalled.

As a 2013 Middlebury College graduate fortunate enough to be present for Mr. Foer's commencement address, I often struggle to strike the balance between experiencing moments and documenting them to share later.

I may have been fortunate enough to be present for the last Yogi-ism.

I was fortunate enough to be present at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on November 4 for the launch of the UN Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons.

I was introduced to the rigor and methods of evaluation and was fortunate to be invited to present my project at the most recent annual meeting of the American Public Health Association.

It is fortunate to be heroically alive.

I was fortunate to manage Everton and I'm fortunate to be managing Manchester United.

My view is, I'm incredibly fortunate to be alive.