Misfortune in example sentence

Doubters need only recall the unwillingness of Secretary General after Secretary General, from U Thant to Kofi Annan, to meet with – or, in some cases, even to permit on the UN’s premises – victims of human rights violations who had the misfortune of being born in powerful countries.

More example sentences with word misfortune

It mostly projects tragedy and fear and misfortune, and it projects that message, that story, so strongly that it almost blots out anything else.

And we all know people who have lots of misfortune, misfortune that we ourselves would not want to have, and they are deeply happy.

He would, I imagine, first of all express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that unhappy people.

The good news is that NASA has a small, secret contingency-plan division that is looking at this, trying to keep knowledge of Orion preserved in the event of such a misfortune.

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