The resulting War of the Pacific was just one of the five unfortunate wars that Bolivia has fought with its neighbors, which, cumulatively, have reduced its territory by half.
"If anything at all, these acts of mayhem are sad reminders of the events which plunged our country into 30 months of an unfortunate civil war," he said referring to the Biafran war in which more than one million people died.
It tells the story of the company's growth and success, its unfortunate Star Wars debacle (4m copies sold but – through no fault of Christopher's – 17m copies printed), and its acquisition in 2000 by Pearson, the parent company of Penguin.
The Royal Library was an unfortunate casualty of war.
Someone mentioned the fact that the grenade shape might bring up unfortunate connotations of war.
"It's an unfortunate fact of war that, inevitably, innocent civilians are killed," Mr. Rumsfeld said.
In France the Capetian dynasty replaced the Carolingian line in 987 under unfortunate circumstances (civil war and treason), and, where various regions were in social upheaval, the initiatives came from below.
He railed against a Southeastern Conference officiating crew that had called a 15-yard penalty on him for unsportsmanlike conduct during a crucial fourth-quarter drive, compounding a churlish display by invoking the unfortunate metaphor of war and soldiers.
Israelis often focus on intent in drawing a distinction between Israel and Hamas — saying their forces kill civilians only as an unfortunate consequence of war while Hamas aims attacks at civilians.
Now she and the council are in the process of "beautifying" Portsmouth - one of several heavily-bombed English cities with what some regard as an "unfortunate" post World War Two legacy.
