Sentence examples for unkind fate from inspiring English sources

Too much promise and not enough rigor doomed monoclonals to an unkind fate.

Not unlike Nixon, who for all his flaws was a man of considerable accomplishment, the governor has a tendency to dilute his achievements by retreating into a comfort zone where he can feel sorry for himself as someone beset by unkind fate and implacable enemies.

Today, at 40, Muhammad Idrees is a nowhere man, a victim of unkind fate and hostile borders.

In addition, starting March 20, UPN will flip its two Monday night comedies, "Platypus Man" and "Pig Sty," airing the latter show at 9 p.m., followed by "Platypus" at 9 30 p.m. Unkind Fate for 'Great': Fox yanked "The Great Defender" off its schedule Wednesday after its premiere episode last Sunday drew dismal ratings, attracting only 6% of the available audience.

Life rarely allows us to be constant companions to our pets and loneliness is an unkind fate.

May the geese be protected from all unkind fates!

Seven of her daughters are physically sound (the eighth, Shangguan Jintong's twin, is born blind) but meet unkind fates in the century's clashing currents.

Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard paleontologist and evolutionary biologist, reviewing Dr. Commoner's book "Making Peace With the Planet" for The Times in 1990, said that it "suffers the commonest of unkind fates: to be so self-evidently true and just that we pass it by as a twice-told tale".

Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Boyle's "Dead Heat" (on global warming) does not insulate itself sufficiently from the heat of the hype surrounding the subject, while Barry Commoner's "Making Peace With the Planet" (on the general global crisis) suffers the commonest of unkind fates: to be so self-evidently true and just that we pass it by as a twice-told tale.

ONLY in the past year, his 70th, did Sandy Weill become what he had worked towards for much of his life: the undisputed with all due respect to those self-styled masters of the universe at Goldman Sachs king of Wall Street.How ironic, then, and how unkind of fate, that Citigroup's head was crowned just at the moment when his new kingdom fell from grace.

We are often other, though, than hapless victims of unkind strokes of fate.