Sentence examples for fortune used from inspiring English sources
Fortune used to be a wheel that turned, and turned again; now it's a number in a ledger, a score.
Instead of a parliamentary constituency or ministry, or a personal fortune used for strategic donations, he has an unofficial party website, ConservativeHome, and an increasing ubiquity in the rest of the political media.
Ed Miliband's assertion that the rising tide of economic fortune used to lift all boats, but now only seems to lift yachts, would certainly seem to be borne out by the Monaco Yacht Show.
The founders, Leonard Elmhirst, an agricultural economist, and his American wife Dorothy, who had inherited part of the Whitney fortune, used to take him on visits to the United States, where some journeys were made by private train.
In 1776, just a few months before the Declaration of Independence, Philadelphians formed the Society for Assisting Distressed Prisoners, modelled on a London society founded in 1773 by a goldsmith who, having amassed a fortune, used it to buy twenty-five thousandebtors debtout oft of prison, one by one.
We explained how the Phipps family, which controls an estimated $7 billion fortune, used a tax-exempt Indian tribe as an intermediary to duck corporate-level taxes on $161.4 million in capital gains.
He is the one who closely monitors his fortune, using off-the-shelf personal finance software, and who does most of the investing.
Stahl has "made a fortune using phrases like my dear, which melted the hearts of women from coast to coast when spoken in his faintly foreign accent".
That idea reached its zenith at Saltaire, near the Yorkshire town of Bradford, from 1850 onward when Titus Salt, who had made his fortune using alpaca and mohair in worsted cloth, embarked on a project of breathtaking ambition.
"Any thought that they had of what they were going to do when they got on the other side went out of their minds — it just takes your breath," said Mr. Viola, who joked that he could have made a fortune using the water wall for group therapy sessions.
From New Jersey to Florida, to Illinois, Grover has amassed a small fortune using sound business principles just like Trump.
