Sentence examples for misfortune by from inspiring English sources

MISFORTUNE, by Wesley Stace.

He had "contributed to his own misfortune by his unrepentant demeanour since the collapse of RBS".

Private misfortune, by the mid-1520s, was beginning to look like public disaster.

Donald followed that misfortune by lipping out two birdie putts at the next two holes.

From the perspective of Northern creditor nations, Greece was the architect of its own misfortune by mismanaging its public finances on a staggering scale.

National themes also make up a significant portion of the State Academic Theater ballet repertory, among them "Three Hills of Misfortune" by J. Mend-Amar and "The Skilled Khas" by J. Chuluun.

Like Mr. Stace's two previous books ("Misfortune" and "By George") it's a deeply — almost obsessively — researched historical novel.

In fact, Tiger is not threatened so much by his own misfortune as by others who feel threatened by proximity to shame.

Throughout his life, Eichmann deceived people about his early "misfortunes" by hiding behind certain financial misfortunes of his father's, which cast no discredit on him.

He hinted that many Jews were responsible for their own misfortunes by lending their support to communism, even though most Jews were politically liberal or conservative.

The military have also contributed to their own misfortunes by conspiring with defence contractors to build ever more expensive weapons that can only be afforded in much smaller numbers than those they are supposed to replace.