Sentence examples for fortunes bring from inspiring English sources

We've all heard of lottery gazillionaires whose sudden fortunes bring them only misery--uncontrolled spending, alienated family members, and ultimate grief.

A parting request to The Pokémon Company, which is a subsidiary of Nintendo (which has resisted bringing its IP to actual games for iOS and Android, despite flagging fortunes): Bring the main franchise to the iPad and iPhone soon and you can have all my money and I will build a (small) temple to your everlasting greatness.

Organized crime syndicates make fortunes bringing ivory to market, mostly in East Asia.

He escaped punishment but Charlton soon tried to change their fortunes, bringing on Callum Harriott followed by Alou Diarra in quick succession.

It opens with British fortunes brought to a low ebb by the American revolution, an imperial civil war that threatened to shatter the British world.

Here, too, Mr. Galbraith believably captures the atmosphere of the time, something like our own recent stock market crazes, when the prospect of making rapid fortunes brought out the best and the worst.

At the other end of the extraordinary convulsion in fortunes brought by the digital revolution is Bezos himself, who started Amazon out of a garage of his home in Washington state in 1994.

Overnight fortunes brought all mod cons, with the luxuries at Kolmanskop quickly rivalling those of any European town.

("She's seen what fame and fortune bring, and she's not impressed," Ellison says mordantly).

He quoted "Cymbeline": "Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered".

Goldhar, who made his fortune bringing Walmart into Canada, bought the club in 2010.