Sentence examples for possible misfortune from inspiring English sources
Finally, some propitiatory sacrifices are clearly prophylactic, intended to avert possible misfortune and calamity, and as such they are really bribes offered to the gods.
It appears that people have learned to associate insurance with a sense of safety and therefore the apprehension that is experienced when one considers possible misfortune is abated by the awareness that one is insured against these calamities.
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Three possible misfortunes could scupper recovery, he reckons: another terrorist attack, another tremor in the banking system and a failure by banks to supply enough credit to his members or their customers.
7 I worry over possible misfortunes.
Some projects will always promise too much, or ask for too little, or suffer any number of possible misfortunes.
Beatty never stops, and it's possible, given the misfortunes occurring in the Disgraced manuscript, that this house beautiful could come onto on the market sometime soon.
Instead, they understand that they must look for possible external causes for others' misfortune just as they would do for themselves.
Gersonides notes that humans can contravene these effects: God has provided humans with "the intellectual capacity (sekhel ba'al takhlit) that enables us both to act contrary to what has been ordered by the heavenly bodies and to correct, as far as possible, the [astrally ordained] misfortunes that befall us" (Wars, II.2, p. 35).
So I will continue to set before you little bowls of colors bright and pure if possible, for what is needed in misfortune is a little order and beauty.
Further, even in cases where aiding is not in fact possible, it is a graver moral misfortune, ceteris paribus, to leave a being with FMS unaided, as compared to a being without FMS.
