Sentence examples for gave unfortunate from inspiring English sources

The promotion of pictures at auction sometimes gave unfortunate prominence to the failures, notably the truncated picture of a pregnant Kate Moss.

Advertisements for air fares frequently contain items like San Francisco-Los Angeles, where simply doing whitespace splitting would give unfortunate results.

"I made a statement that our very established society cannot make exceptions, but instead lowers our standards of human rights and gives unfortunate people no support, morally or financially.

Bellyaching from the NRA and Gun Owners of America has given unfortunate pause to common sense in Congress.

Someone gave him unfortunate advice.

This gave the unfortunate impression that he was saying he thought he should be allowed to run the country because his relatives used to.

Apart from anything else, that grim heritage, and the ferocious racism which followed, gave those unfortunate souls a reason to sing.

Indeed, Mr Blair gave the unfortunate impression of swallowing without too much demur a new consensus that central banks should concern themselves with jobs as well as inflation and that governments should create new jobs by means of large infrastructure investments.

A leaky trail of pink paint has dribbled through from the front, giving the unfortunate impression of … well, it's an unfortunate impression.

Both sides would also agree on giving the unfortunate in society a chance at an honest living, but if the unfortunate squander the opportunity so be it, they'll be cut off.

Given the unfortunate timeliness of his topic, he'd better get used to it.