Sentence examples for preventing misfortune from inspiring English sources

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.

Based on the fact that the Quechua word hucha can signifies "sin," interpreted " capac-hucha" as the ritual procedure designed to atone for transgressions committed and to prevent misfortune that could affect the Inca ruler and his empire.

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.

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.

In an unrelated misfortune, the power supply to Paddington Station was somehow cut off during the London snowfall, preventing trains from entering or leaving the station and stranding thousands.

But unlike the collapse in Warsaw, Celtic did not fold and but for two instances of real misfortune would have been back in front before half-time as first Charlie Mulgrew watched a back-post header cleared off the line by Filipovic before Van Dijk's effort smacked Johansen in the face, preventing an apparently inevitable goal.

Winning the lottery prevents none of these misfortunes and it positively favours the last of them.

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".

But he will be ruing Blackpool's misfortune as Grant's heroics prevented an almost certain second-half equaliser at Turf Moor.