Sentence examples for rough fortunes from inspiring English sources
Throughout, Oates explores the rough fortunes of (mostly) women who think they're in control of their situations but are inevitably proved wrong, sometimes brutally so.
The rough sleeper's bad fortune is intricately connected to someone else's good fortune.
Just using Fortune's rough math, 45percentt of some whole worth $350 million implies that the full canoe is worth around $777 million.
The boat was handcrafted from local huon pine in 1932 for two wealthy brothers, George and William Clark, who had made their fortune in the rough and tumble of the Australian outback around the turn of the 20th century.
It's a rough business — you can make a fortune or lose your shirt.
Micky Arison $0.1 BILLION NET WORTH: $4.3 BILLION 2012 looking as rough as 2011 as Carnival moguls fortune sank further after Costa cruise ship crash.
Turkey has been through enough rough waters that Istanbul's current fortune -- especially when contrasted with European chaos -- can seem delicate.
HIS early years were rough going, mainly because NBC's network fortunes quickly waned.
The Year of the Rat has been a rough one for China's richest, with fortunes being dragged down amid a 60% plunge in mainland stocks and a 50% drop in Hong Kong shares in 2008.
Wayne Rooney marked his England return with the goal that secured a place in Euro 2012's last eight - but it was a rough passage eased by helpings of good fortune and controversy against Ukraine.
So in 2010 The Economist introduced the first Sinodependency index, as a rough gauge of China's influence on the fortunes of American multinationals.
