Sentence examples for simple misfortune from inspiring English sources

Or 'mental fragility – flat tracks x too long a qualification period x simple misfortune = 31.32'.

The episode was the latest in a series of high-profile problems for the railroad — an ill-timed procession of failing infrastructure, employee errors and simple misfortune that has tested the confidence of riders, transit experts and elected officials.

The dossiers also show the seat-of-the-pants intelligence gathering in war zones that led to the incarcerations of innocent men for years in cases of mistaken identity or simple misfortune.

I was effectively 16 again, on the hook for a five-hour class and the dreaded road test, which I came to fear I'd never reach, given the labyrinth of civil-service incompetence, bureaucratic nonsense and simple misfortune I had tumbled into.

A simple misfortune could change the course of your life instantly and irrevocably.

The dossiers, prepared under the Bush administration, also show the seat-of-the-pants intelligence gathering in war zones that led to the incarcerations of innocent men for years in cases of mistaken identity or simple misfortune, the Times said.

Like the original song, this version blurs the line between situational irony – when an action has the opposite effect that you'd expect – and simple coincidence or misfortune.

These towns aren't where anybody is headed, only where they end up, by mistake or misfortune or simple passivity.

It all began when a waitress spilled a glass of buttermilk down his blue serge suit: "Mr. Volente had written an account of the catastrophe at the time and had sold it to a young and inexperienced magazine, thus making for himself the enormously important discovery that the world would pay a man for setting down a simple, legible account of his own misfortunes".

Although there are various methods to cure evil eye and to end the physical suffering and misfortune it can cause, the simplest way is to generate a positive change from within.

Curtis Macnguyen, an accomplished hedge fund manager, follows some simple rules that can help investors insulate their portfolios against misfortune.