It is a symbolical and literal cleansing of the body and soul aimed at preventing misfortune and bad luck, including sickness or havoc caused by daily activities and sins.
To prevent such misfortune, Ms. Mak is usually asked for feng shui tips on arranging government office furniture.
Although anticoagulation, antithrombotic, conservative managements as well as surgical approaches have been attempted with variable success, perhaps the most plausible treatment would be to prevent this misfortune by patient education.
"I hoped that I would be able to do some good and prevent worse misfortunes," he said later.
The most we can do right now is to continue to urge Mr. Baraka to resign and to explore any legislative possibilities to prevent any such future misfortunes like this".
Kenny Milne's usual supplier of lucky white heather must have run out of stock, denying the big Falkirk defender the charm that might have prevented the appalling misfortune he experienced on a calamitous day for his team.
Sympathy works by looking at the actual effects of a person's character traits, but sometimes misfortune or lack of opportunity may prevent an individual from exercising her good character traits, yet we still admire them.
Skarlatos's voice drops at this point, reflecting on his friend's misfortune and another attack he was unable to prevent.
Medvedev said it was "our misfortune" that increased security measures introduced after two planes that took off from Domodedovo were blown up in mid-air in 2004 had failed to prevent yesterday's blast.
"The war has the misfortune of being fought at a time when military tactics, military strategy was a step behind technology," the historian J. David Hacker says, "and being fought about 10 years before we really had a proper understanding of what causes disease, how to prevent disease from breaking out and how to treat what diseases we have".
