Sentence examples for misfortune lies from inspiring English sources

Chromosome 4. The misfortune lies within a single gene, in an excessive repeat of a single sequence — CAG.

In some cases, their misfortune lies in having been born during the period when Canada did not recognise dual citizenship until the act was amended in 1977.

But, unlike previous poorer immigrants, the H1-B crowd is not taking its misfortune lying down.

And in doing so I always felt the piercing, inquiring gaze of the page boy who had come to demand his dues, who was waiting in the gray light of dawn on the empty field for me to accept the challenge and avert the misfortune lying ahead of him.

Further misfortune lay in store.

Its share capital eroded, bleeding cash, with only €128m left, including unused credit lines, Alitalia has run into near-terminal turbulence.Poor strategy has played a part but much of the blame for Alitalia's misfortunes lies with Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister, who exploited the airline's difficulties in his election campaign in 2008.

Although the EU can assume its portion of blame for the status quo in Greece, the roots of Greece's misfortunes primarily lie within, that is, in decades of economic mismanagement and rampant graft.

Now, in "The Fragile Middle Class" (Yale University Press, 2000), the same three writers -- Elizabeth Warren, Teresa A. Sullivan and Jay Lawrence Westbrook -- have refined their research and shown that behind most bankruptcy filings lies misfortune, not profligate living.

Mozambique's misfortune is to lie between the coast and the massive central plateau: rain that falls in six or more neighbouring countries has to find its way to the sea through Mozambique, which is straddled by four massive rivers, the greatest of which, the Zambezi, is the focus of the worst flooding.

"The genesis of our failure to meet those needs lies neither in random misfortune nor merely in youthful risk taking, it lies with older people," she said.

In this regard his performances reflected early French slapstick, where the humour lay in the fact that misfortune was endured.