Sentence examples for present fortune from inspiring English sources

If the sequence of Xs are outcomes in successive trials of a game of chance and fn is the fortune of a gambler after the nth trial, then the martingale condition says that the game is absolutely fair in the sense that, no matter what the past history of the game, the gambler's conditional expected fortune after one more trial is exactly equal to his present fortune.

But that first Wembley appearance 19 years ago seems a world away from the club's present fortunes in the Premier League.

A recent article from Fortune Magazine: "The women who STEM-ed their way to power" presents Fortune's Most Powerful Women in Business and shows how almost all the women at the top majored in "seriously hard sciences".

Comrade Wen surely realizes that, absent Mao's exploits, the Chinese people would have started to enjoy their present good fortune three decades earlier.

He ascribes gold's present good fortune to a broad shift out of American shares and bonds because of an Enron-induced malaise rather than to any revival in gold's role as the ultimate store of value.

Seeking to associate his government with a rare feel-good moment, Mr. Maliki pointedly noted the contrast between Iraq's past and present sporting fortunes.

But this narrative also guaranteed a higher level of scrutiny for Romney's private equity past and present-day fortune, and when that scrutiny arrived – thanks to Newt Gingrich's opportunistic attacks – the campaign's response was blundering and tone-deaf rather than polished and rehearsed.

In fact, Matsui was highly sympathetic with Yanagawa's actions and a few days later on November 22 Matsui issued an urgent telegram to the Army General Staff insisting that "To resolve this crisis in a prompt manner we need to take advantage of the enemy's present declining fortunes and conquer Nanking.

The historic victory of Barack Obama contained many dramas, but none was more important than the climactic turn it symbolized in the present-day fortunes of two outsize forces in recent political history — the civil rights movement and the conservative movement.

Reeking of fear and brutality, and recounted by their son, it also presents the fortunes of Tom and Stella, two older slaves, in their attempts to strike north from the Confederate South of 1861.

Fortune presents her a second chance in the form of an impoverished doctor - in fact, a prince in disguise who has elected to work among the needy.