Sentence examples for fortune instead of from inspiring English sources
Atticus is now a multi-billion concern and its success has enabled Rothschild to make his own fortune instead of relying on his father's money.
These people speak, I say, because I now feel like protecting her, as if what she was doing was seeking fame and fortune instead of rewarding artistic experiences with the best people in the business.
This from a man who has opted out of the city's campaign-finance system, choosing to use his own fortune instead of public funds to propel himself into office.
If you are a female singer past the age of 40, the market is constantly trying to turn you into metaphorical glue and repurpose you for a humiliating reality show about your precipitous decline in fortune instead of continuing to let you, you know, make music.
According to her fifth-century passio, the story of her martyrdom, Agnes refused to marry any of the many eligible suitors pressing for her hand (and fortune); instead, she "went to the place of execution more cheerfully than others go to their wedding": this martyrdom probably took place around A.D. 305, during the persecution of the Christians by the emperor Diocletian.
But after the Fortune article, "instead of being an anonymous guy who wandered around in the Valley, I became someone people focused on," he said.
And the golden amulets to bring good health and fortune with - instead of the more usual images of Buddhist or Taoist holy men - engraved portraits of the former Chinese leader.
Deserts us also, and is ours no more". Yet thus much, indeed, must be allowed to happen in the conflicts between good men and ill fortune, that instead of due returns of honour and gratitude, obloquy and unjust surmises may often prevail, to weaken, in a considerable degree, the credit of their virtue.
More importantly, it allows us to respond to life's fickle shifts of fortune proactively instead of reactively.
Get real and let compound interest do some real increasing of your fortunes instead.
While all the foundation money did end up going to charity, prosecutors have accused Mr. Marshall, and Francis X . Morrissey Jr. a lawyer who worked on her estate, of taking advantage of her deteriorating mental condition to get her to change her will and direct millions of dollars of her personal fortune their way, instead of toward charity.
