Sentence examples for string of misfortunes from inspiring English sources

Alas, Thailand has since suffered a string of misfortunes: bird flu, last year's tsunami, a prolonged drought and an intensifying insurgency in some Muslim areas.

But the most remarkable feature of the proceedings was the string of misfortunes that began to strike the witnesses for the prosecution.

Since the Second Anglo-Dutch War began in 1665, England had suffered a string of misfortunes, including the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London.

Jake (Cam Gigandet) is a morose young man in Berkeley, Calif., who becomes even more so when, on his birthday, he is hit with a string of misfortunes — including losing his job and his girlfriend — that strains credulity.

The previous day, moreover, he received news that his mother was involved in a car accident in Paris, the latest in a string of misfortunes that had bedeviled his family in recent months.

It's only the latest in a string of misfortunes to strike bitcoin – the first of a generation of crypto-currencies: digital coinage not backed by any government or institution.

Then her life unraveled in a string of misfortune.

The string of misfortune can be traced back to 2008, when Angel Pagan tore his labrum May 7.

It is fair to wonder how different the ledger might look if not for the Knicks' freakish string of misfortune over the last two weeks.

More importantly, it terminated a string of misfortune which Conor O'Shea, the director of rugby, described as unparallelled in his five years at the club.

Rodriguez's string of misfortune continued as his thumb became so sore Sunday that he was sent to New York on Monday to be examined and have a magnetic resonance imaging test.