Sentence examples for unfortunate race from inspiring English sources

"And we just had an unfortunate race for mayor and people were not happy about the result.

In discussing her father-in-law's "sympathy for the unfortunate race," Mrs. Harlan alluded to one Harlan slave who, after buying his freedom, struck it rich in the California gold rush.

Furthermore, Alonso has had a couple of very unfortunate races previously – if Hamilton had done this and please don't even try to suggests that he wouldn't, no one would be writing such nauseous self-righteous comments.

Houses around are rebuilt and this somehow buries the unfortunate races of the war but they can' t be deleted from poor people's hearts.

The most unfortunate twitchers race many kilometres to spot a bird only to find that their flighty subjects have flown off – a bummer known in the twitching world as a "dip".

"The state of fear continues," Mr. Porteous said, describing the decision to schedule the race "unfortunate".

Lincoln was thoroughly a man of his times, and while he staunchly opposed slavery — on moral grounds and because it made competition in the marketplace unfair for poor white men — for most of his life he harbored fixed and unfortunate ideas about race.

Berry, a town councillor, added: "It's terribly unfortunate for British racing as a whole.

Perhaps.It is unfortunate to see the race card being played in this tragic case.

Of course, lots of unfortunate politicians of every race have endured embarassment, much of their own making, over the years.

"Unfortunate", because if perceiving race is automatic then it lays a foundation for racism, and appears to put a limit on efforts to educate people to be "colourblind", or put aside prejudices in other ways.