Sentence examples for potential misfortune from inspiring English sources

LONDON — Some public figures seem to do no wrong, deflecting scandal and potential misfortune as adroitly as if they were sheathed in Teflon jumpsuits.

Situated just a few hundred metres from each other along Rye Lane, this tale of two buildings reflects our contemporary Tale Of Two Cities in a mirror which – potential misfortunes aside – we should probably break at the first opportunity.

When members of the American Anthropological Association AAAA) vote later this month on a proposed boycott of Israeli academic institutions, they, too, will be standing on a crossroads--a point of potential disciplinary misfortune.

7 I worry over possible misfortunes.

Mr. Robertson, who was gathering information, leads and potential witnesses, also encountered misfortune.

These states, then, came under British rule as a result of patrilineal misfortune, not economic potential.

And he warns: 'We hope to be seeing the fall of the Arellano cartel but have no illusions that one cartel's misfortune is another's potential.

There have been potential miscues that could have ended in misfortune.

While the causes of Howe's financial misfortunes are unknown, several contemporary critics held that the cause was Howe's need to keep up appearances among the ruling elite, while Josiah Martin, Tryon's successor as Royal Governor, believed Howe's misfortunes were evidence of his potential for malfeasance with the public money.

Lady Bracknell would have agreed that to lose two potential successors at Renault in the past two years was a misfortune, but to lose another at Nissan looks like carelessness.

"If there is no peace, this agreement will bring misfortune to Afghanistan," Karzai added in a somewhat elliptical reference to the potential impact of the accord.