Sentence examples for fortune toward from inspiring English sources

Mayor Michael Bloomberg will put a hundred and thirty million dollars — some from his own fortune — toward assisting young men in black and Hispanic communities in New York City.

And for this writer, who recently returned to America after six years in India, it is hard to ignore a quiet turning in the culture, away from a once-sacrosanct faith in the malleability of fortune, toward ideas more familiar in feudal places: that class is a fate, not a situation; that the contest is rigged against the underdog.

He's established a for-hire consultancy group to help struggling urban administration worldwide, launched a war on coal, a war on tobacco, and looks set to direct his energy and fortune toward curbing climate change by making the world's cities become more energy-efficient and livable.

But now one of the Bay's wealthiest families is putting a little of its fortune toward fighting back on behalf of longtime residents who can't pay today's rates.

Microsoft certainly saw that and was willing to allocate a chunk of its fortune toward bringing it into the fold, getting the data for itself, and keeping it away from Salesforce.

The authors depict the decline in Rove's fortunes toward the end of their account, but they never really square it with their belief in his near infallibility.

In a Harvard Business Review article, Freek Vermeulen cites a study by Professor Michelle Arthur, from the University of New Mexico, that measures the stock market's attitude toward Fortune 500 companies' announcement of work-life programs.

In a new PricewaterhouseCoopers survey of Fortune 1000 executives' attitudes toward sustainable development, one corporate vice president for environmental affairs called the concept "a pernicious fad".

WASHINGTON — Francisco Rodriguez was not having much good fortune throwing the ball toward home plate Friday, so with the game hanging in the balance, he turned and fired in the opposite direction.

Manchester City, United's closest neighbor, has spent a Gulf oil sheik's fortune buying its way toward parity, and 10 days ago City handed United its biggest hiding in Ferguson's time as manager.

Detroit had a bit of rare good fortune as it hurtled toward bankruptcy last summer — a couple of banks were willing to let it out of some expensive financial contracts, called interest-rate swaps, without paying in full the usual steep termination fees.