Sentence examples for matter of fortune from inspiring English sources

Whether they become more intimate with you is a matter of fortune and how playful you are in return to their advances.

It's a matter of fortune.

Given their nocturnal habits, cryptic plumage and difficulty of observation, nightjar observation "is as much a matter of fortune as effort or knowledge".

But as financial markets recovered and a quickly resurgent China began hoovering up capital goods, Germany sprang back, helped along by the fact that many of its big exporting firms didn't need to hire people to scale up production they could just increase hours.Germany's good fortune isn't just a matter of good fortune.

The good deals at 215 East 68th Street seem a matter of good fortune for the well-connected, rather than any bending or breaking of eligibility rules.

Your article makes it clear that it is not a matter of bad fortune but a quagmire of impossible obstacles to overcome each day.

It is simply a matter of good fortune that care staff are on hand to deal with difficult situations, rather than simply administering a chemical cosh.

It is a matter of good fortune that he carried out much of his field work before the accelerating developments of modern Turkey erased many traces of its historical heritage.

I suspect it is also a matter of good fortune, since the Tate has its Unilever sponsorship to help pay for this to happen all day every day until the end of October.

Mrs Clinton now enjoys the highest popularity rating of any of Mr Obama's cabinet; she also enjoys the admiration of some Republicans, such as Mark Kirk, a member of the congressional subcommittee that overseas the State Department, who calls her "the superstar of the cabinet".Mrs Clinton's success has partly been a matter of good fortune.

It was purely a matter of good fortune that I was at the right point in the grossly unreliable earning cycle of a novelist's life – I had just sold a novel, and so it was the year of Incoming Money.