Sentence examples for to fortunate from inspiring English sources

"It is only thanks to fortunate circumstances that not more people were killed," Mr. Herrmann said.

Andy Larkham is a disorganised, impecunious editor of exploitative self-help books (Make Your Black Dog Your Guide Dog), who is prone to fortunate mistakes.

Further, "when income is unequally distributed, large blocks of purchasing power accrue to fortunate individuals under no pressure to spend, and the situation worsens".

Bly was talented and undeniably a celebrity, but she also owed part of her success to fortunate timing: her moxie was in concert with both the women's-suffrage movement and the burgeoning of populist journalism.

But independent economists, who say the economy contracted by 2-2.5% last year, now forecast growth of up to 8% this year.Like the expansion of 2003-08, this recovery is due mainly to fortunate circumstances.

Bernard B. Kerik's concern for his immortal reputation as Police Commissioner was such that — in an especially delicious detail that surfaced in his monthlong transformation from Presidential appointee to middle-aged unemployed guy — one of the things he apparently commissioned was a set of thirty plaster busts of himself to be distributed as gifts to fortunate friends and dignitaries.

His life was a blessing to those fortunate to know him.

It was hard to feel fortunate.

But it turned out to be fortunate.

That turned out to be fortunate.

Mr Bates considers, "Bill Clinton to be fortunate in 1992.