Sentence examples for relative fortunes from inspiring English sources

What is notable about the recent resurgence of big oil's relative fortunes is the apparent absence of wider inflationary pressures (except in asset prices).

Boeing quickly criticized Airbus, demonstrating that however much has changed in the relative fortunes of the two companies, they have not budged in their dispute over how to pay for their planes.

But as defaults in the commercial real estate arena begin in earnest next year — and consumers continue to feel the economy's pinch — the relative fortunes of the small fry and leviathans of finance will almost certainly converge.

In Part I of this Article, Salzman examines the phenomenon of deindustrialization, analyzing statistics on employment, productivity, and economic activity over the last three decades to describe the relative fortunes of the service and manufacturing sectors.

Others see their relative fortunes rise and fall depending on whether Hollywood is throwing money their way neither Theodor ("Dr. Seuss") Geisel nor J.R.R. Tolkien made the silver screen this year, and their income fell accordingly.

In some senses the comparison between Samsung and HTC's relative fortunes is unfair, being as Samsung's success is not purely down to making phones —  the Samsung Group makes all sorts of gizmos, small and large, under various business subsidiaries: from TVs to fridges to tanks (yes, tanks — aka armored personnel carriers).

But Mr. Prine's relative fortune is never far from his thoughts.

Michelle Payne delivered her horse to renown, her team to victory, her punters to relative fortune; Prince of Penzance paid out at 100-1.

Mr. Haski conceded that early in this bizarre adventure he worried that Ms. Ma might be spoiled by her sudden fame and relative fortune.

And that was true, in a way: unlike so many of the other startups I've been watching lately, they were getting hundreds of millions of users - and fast - all of whom were willing to pay a modest fee ($1 after a free first year) for a service that had been costing them a relative fortune to maintain.

Since leaving the dugout in 2005, he has proved a master wheeler-dealer, unearthing lower league stars for next to nothing, polishing them up and selling them for a relative fortune: the sales of Dwight Gayle, Britt Assombalonga, Craig Mackail-Smith (Fry's son-in-law), Ryan Bennett, George Boyd, Aaron McLean, Paul Taylor and most recently, Conor Washington, have made the League One side over £25m.