Sentence examples for same misfortune from inspiring English sources

"We concluded that the same misfortune that had claimed the teacher struck again," said Nahangnena Kone, the principal of the Bazra-Nattis public primary school.

Until, bit by bit, after a few more coded statements from the pulpit, it would have been understood that not just Ronnie but all three of us were victims of the same misfortune, into which Olive's illness, immorality, and death-or-its-equivalent had projected us.

The Neanderthals' "bad luck" is presumably the same misfortune that the hobbits and the Denisovans encountered, and similar to the tragedy suffered by the giant marsupials that once browsed Australia, and the varied megafauna that used to inhabit North America, and the moas that lived in New Zealand.

Does the same misfortune happen to executives who become celebrities?

Telling someone that another person has the same misfortune really is meaningless to the person who must live with a deformity every day.

They're subject to the same sad laws of doom as the rest of us, the same misfortunes, the same fate.

But over the last several years, the Ocampo family was hit by many of the same misfortunes that have beset so many other Americans: Refugio Ocampo lost his job.

What is it that makes two minds respond so differently to the same encounter with misfortune?

(To be clear: I was not trying to paint a picture that all refugees go through the same ordeals or misfortunes, or that these ordeals or misfortunes are limited to immigrants and refugees but extend to others suffering poverty or marginalization. Simply, I was trying to say, it's a hard knock life, and those who are victims of society are the ones who most need the protections of justice).

And at that moment I knew, with a certitude indistinct from terror, that destiny (or misfortune — the same thing in this case) had brought me to that room.

Unfortunately, the same is true of misfortunes greater than Mr Rybkin's.