Sentence examples for secure good fortune from inspiring English sources

The result is an automated form of prayer, which the votary believes may secure good fortune and the prospect of liberation from the round of birth and death.

Promises to raise the dead, secure good fortune or heal through the laying on of hands are all at risk of legal action from disgruntled customers.

Rain rituals as early as the 6th century bce involved a dragon image animated by a procession of dancers; similar dances are still practiced in traditional Chinese communities to secure good fortune.

Jimmy Erskine observes that Laszlo "had secured … good fortune by virtue of being a kind and deserving person.

If Eraste secures his fortune, all well and good.

As good as fortune telling?

Then, Christie's good political fortune regressed.

He's had good political fortune.

Good Numbers Gone Bad, Fortune Magazine, October 2, 2006.

In 1949, at the age of 32, she secured a staff job at the New Yorker where she had the great good fortune to be edited by William Maxwell, who became a loyal friend.

And secondly, there has been a sharp decline in the creditworthiness of some hitherto blue-chip borrowers notably Xerox, which may have avoided bankruptcy only by drawing down a credit line that it had the foresight (or good fortune) to secure in happier times.