Sentence examples for fortunes in which from inspiring English sources

They deeply resent criticism and seek the vindictive triumph — the reversal of fortunes in which they can lord their excellence over those who scorned them.

This comes at the end of a season of mixed fortunes in which Wiggins rode well in the Paris-Roubaix Classic – another possible target for 2015 – and won the Tour of California.

Fields: His Follies and Fortunes" in which Fields gets it in his head to organize a picnic for his secretary, Magda Michael; his companion, Carlotta Monti; her sister, Susie; and himself.

As Bush's director of the Office of Management and Budget, Daniels presided over a historic turnaround in the nation's fiscal fortunes, in which the $5.6tn surplus that emerged from the Clinton administration morphed into a 10-year forecast for a $2.1tn deficit by early 2003.

This situation is problematised in The Fortunes, in which Ling is also "half"; his father is a white man he never meets; at various points, he feels the urge to confide in his American employer but can't, Davies explains, because of his pride in being perceived as an exemplary Chinese man.

Last month, Desire's share price crashed by almost half – and has pretty much stayed there – following an embarrassing reversal of fortunes in which the company declared, just four days after trumpeting a significant discovery in the north Falklands basin, that it had made a further discovery – that the find was essentially water.

For them, this is a celebration of current familial fortune in which they extend their southern hospitality to all present.

In the 1990s, she'd enjoyed a long period of personal and professional good fortune, in which she published an acclaimed autobiography and released several very fine albums, including Before the Poison, widely regarded as her finest since 1979's Broken English.

And through it all the songs remain utterly indestructible, lifting the soul, tapping the toes, and ultimately conjuring a stunning reversal of fortune in which shock and awe turn to delectation and delight and everyone goes home a happier, better person.

On Thursday, the actress wrote a guest newsletter for Fortune in which she shared some harsh truths about the plight of working Latinas in the U.S. .

In every trial, they were required to choose one of two gambles depicted as "wheels of fortune", in which different probabilities of financial gain or loss are represented by the relative size of colored sectors of a circle.