Sentence examples for of ill fortune from inspiring English sources

The Vartsabas have had their share of ill fortune.

We end today a period of ill fortune and India discovers herself again.

It's the kind of ill fortune - or karma - that would make even the sturdiest egos think twice about their choices.

Each day this city presents its residents with ghastly sights and reminders that there has been no shortage of ill fortune here.

We have more resources than Singapore!" All countries hoping to reverse decades of ill fortune invariably market themselves as "the next Singapore".

There was a time when England sides were incapable of reversing the tide of ill fortune, and to compile ugly wins is in itself a virtue.

In one bleak run of ill-fortune he lost 72 nights in a row.

Some effort will be made to dismiss this drubbing as a combination of ill-fortune and aberrations that the side will not repeat.

And since pleasure must be counted in towards the happy life, how can one that, thus, knows the misery of ill-fortune or pain be happy, however sage he be?

Of course, Australia can point to plenty of ill-fortune along the way – Stuart Broad's reprieve at Trent Bridge, the Chris Rogers full toss lbw at Lord's, Tony Hill, the Manchester rain.

It all started with a gun, and a dose of ill-fortune; with the murder of a moustachioed Austrian and a slab of militarism, the world had made of itself a glorious war.