Sentence examples for joint misfortune from inspiring English sources
Perhaps the firms' joint misfortune was that they have attracted proprietors who regard them as playthings, and have been run by boards with greater talents in snobbery and social positioning than in management.There have been attempts at change.
What about News Corp. and NBC Universal's joint-venture online video service Hulu, which had the misfortune of launching one week before the strike?
They wondered if the blades had by chance closed uselessly on one of the nearly indestructible joints that connect drilling pipe -- a significant bit of misfortune, given a decision years before to outfit the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer with just one blind shear ram when other rigs were already beginning to use two of them to guard against just this possibility.
If you have the misfortune to find yourself in one of the less corporate takeaway joints that have been criminalised in the last week, don't get envious when the tourists have more banter than you with the staff.
Last but not least are their heinous crimes, which range from setting fire to an old couple who had the misfortune of living in her childhood home to murdering some hapless employees during a holdup at a fast-food joint.
Misfortune has been piled on misfortune.
Also: misfortune hunters.
People suffered misfortune".
That is their misfortune.
O, what terrible misfortune.
