Sentence examples for misfortune it from inspiring English sources

"It can certainly be fixed for far less than the total value" of the car, Mr. Hagerty said, noting that if there was a silver lining to the misfortune, it would be that the car did not wear its original skin.

Or, to put it another way, Britain had had its arse delivered to it by various outperforming economies whose misfortune it is not to be managed by George Osborne.

In times of misfortune, it is They who have done Us down.

"Living in a bilingual city is not a misfortune, it makes life rich and interesting," he argues.

When people who do things the right way suffer this kind of misfortune, it makes no sense.

"I have seen what a great misfortune it is to be a child of rape," she said.

To add to the line's misfortunes, it suffered its first fatality only two weeks after opening when conductor John Creagh was crushed between a train and a tunnel wall at Kennington Road station on 26 March.

If the industry has been at least partly the author of its own misfortunes, it has not been helped by the attitudes of politicians and regulators.

Perhaps thanks to all these misfortunes, it has also developed a strong sense of solidarity.

Although he has been blamed for many of Indonesia's misfortunes, it came as a surprise to many in the country that this former strongman, a towering figure in Asia, should now be treated as a possible criminal.

About ten days ago, they say, he told Mr Agnelli (now Fiat's honorary chairman) that he was going to leave because he had become the symbol of the group's misfortunes; it was time for a change to show that Fiat was determined to cure its problems and avoid a much-rumoured sale to America's General Motors GMM).