Sentence examples for unfortunate relative from inspiring English sources

A cousin of his stepmother's — a man he called "uncle" — who was president of the Austrian Automobile Club and was married to the daughter of a Jewish businessman in Czechoslovakia, was acquainted with the general manager of the Austrian Vacuum Oil Company, a Jew named Weiss, and used this connection to get his unfortunate relative a job as travelling salesman.

The astronomical rise of the e-reader means that vanity publishing no longer means taking a massive gamble by getting physical copies printed only to see them pile up in an unfortunate relative's garage.

A handy bit of exposition from Edith for those unfortunate relatives forced to watch Downton once a year, snoozing over their sherry and wishing they had made their excuses earlier.

Partly owing to the unfortunate placement, relative to the Moon's visible face, of the most prominent lunar examples, multiringed basins were only slowly recognized as coherent geologic features by geologists and astronomers.

The lack of an active comparator (placebo plus detemir) in this study is unfortunate, since the relative contributions of detemir and sitagliptin to A1C reduction cannot be determined.

Another may be the unfortunate rhetoric surrounding the relative importance of the A, B and C components that now exists throughout the country and the subsequent great confusion regarding the promotion and effectiveness of condoms.

The artist said: "The idea of the work is to suggest that any privileged person can become vulnerable at any time due to circumstances outside of their own personal control, such as illness, death of a relative, war or unfortunate economic circumstances".

It is an unfortunate fact of life, but not all blood relatives are your allies.

(It's always, by the way, someone's relative at these events who becomes the unfortunate symbol of the digital refusniks.

While this is useful in determining relative transcript abundance, it did have the unfortunate side effect of reporting unmapped reads for 6,113 transcripts.

Under marital status are commentaries on the relative advantage of marriage in our society and the unfortunate domination of women.