Sentence examples for fortune depends on from inspiring English sources

"A great fortune depends on luck, a small one on diligence", Chinese Proverb.

Much of a deliveryman's good fortune depends on serendipity.

For a businessman whose fortune depends on construction, his acceptance speech was built without any apparent structure.

"Another misunderstanding," he says.They won't believe him in BrusselsHis political fortune depends on winning over moderate voters in time for Slovakia's general election.

After the death of her doctor husband, Earle's mother tells him to refer to her as Aunt Dora, as their fortune depends on her not having an eighteen-year-old son.

She said our fortune depended on her not having a son as old as eighteen who looked more like twenty.

In Ivory Coast, whose good fortune depended on a go-along, get-along attitude that continued even as its neighbors exploded in civil war, there is a new feeling that the country is nearing bottom.

The share price decline made Brooks desperate, Fiske said, because her personal fortune depended on the value of her stock options.

Some Russian and Balkan items, as well as some American and German items, can be worth a small fortune, depending on scarcity and demand, while other American and German items manufactured in large quantities are worth little.

Nash's bowling action has been described as letting "the ball go with a furious arm action, as if a fortune depended on every ball", making "the ball fizz as he charged through the crease at a speed that always appeared likely to topple him over".

Where South Africa were all slow-burning menace, they knew their fortunes depended on the explosive approach.