Sentence examples for was only fortunate from inspiring English sources

He added that the border agent was only fortunate that he didn't happen to kill a U.S. citizen living across the border.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 11 signifying a debacle equivalent to the 45-3 fiatco at New England in 2010, Ryan characterized Sunday's defeat as a 10. "We're only fortunate that it only counts for one loss," said Ryan, who watched his team fall behind by 14 points after the first quarter, 22 at halftime and 33 after three.

It's only fortunate juveniles that make it upstream in the first place (thanks largely to the aid of fish ladders), and then they face the danger of being chewed up by the turbines in hydropower dams on their way back down as adults.

Some players are only fortunate enough to get one of these days in his career.

A day before Oscar Sunday, I had the once in a lifetime opportunity to attend one of the many luxury style lounges that many celebrities are only fortunate to attend.

Jeff, who was only 13, was more fortunate.

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

It is only by a fortunate accident that we have the later Mohist texts at all.

The 2001 Ravens are the only fortunate fowl to have won the Super Bowl, but they are the exception that proves the rule, writes Jesse Pennington.

These results point to the possibility that these two methods were only accurate when a fortunate random point was selected to start running the search algorithm from.

The 2001 Ravens are the only fortunate fowl to have won the Super Bowl.