Sentence examples for fortunes about from inspiring English sources

WITHOUT a doubt, the biggest event in philanthropy this year was the Giving Pledge, a commitment by 40 of the wealthiest Americans to give away at least half of their fortunes, about $600 billion.

"Shorts for Tots" includes "Electric Car," an American animation with music by They Might Be Giants, and "Short Films One," for 5-to-10-year-olds, offers the Iranian live-action film "The Bird That Could Tell Fortunes," about a boy and his amazingly clever pet.

Brodie-Sangster was cast as Thomas Cromwell's 15-year-old protege, Rafe Sadler: young enough to be an all-hours skivvy to Mark Rylance's Cromwell, yet wise enough to offer counsel – for instance, when he recognised a potential reverse in Cromwell's fortunes, about half way through the six-parter, and let go of his customary poise to say let's leg it for France.

Hitler promptly confiscated the Thyssen fortune (about $88 million) and stripped Fritz Thyssen of German citizenship.

But the attention might be as much about Mr. Obama's own political fortunes as about the 2010 midterm election.

Comes now Michael Frayn's "My Father's Fortune," about his dad.

For most families, that is a fortune: about 70% of Zambians live on less than $1 a day.

If they scored two tries from distance, there were large slices of good fortune about both of them.

And whilst Van Persie accepts there was an element of good fortune about his effort, the former Arsenal man recognises it was a special strike.

It had a touch of good fortune about it but then Villas-Boas may well have believed that was his due.

There was a bit of fortune about the build-up to his goal but he took it well and was a constant threat to the Dutch.