Fortune
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1051 examples of Fortune in a sentence
In Korean tradition, entrusting the family
fortune
to the youngest of a third generation is sometimes a dicey proposition.
They, too, made a
fortune
from fossil fuels, but they oppose any move to mandate emission reductions.
Just one stroke of bad
fortune
– a drought, a flood, or an illness – is enough for them to tumble deeper into poverty and hunger.
Going Against Conventional WisdomCAMBRIDGE – When I finished my graduate studies in 1974, I had the wonderful
fortune
of doing postdoctoral work with Harvard Medical School’s Judah Folkman.
Reasons for an extended period of prosperity are real: free trade around the world, mobilizing upward of 2 billion people to move out of closed, repressed markets to seek their future and
fortune
in world trade; unprecedented mobility of ideas, benchmarking by world class standards; spread of technologies and money to the most remote parts of the world.
This electoral strategy, though risky, could yield large rewards, with the outcome holding significant implications for the party’s immediate
fortune
– as well as for Turkey’s long-term prospects.
The selection of Kudrin for this role calls to mind former President Boris Yeltsin’s own search for a successor who would preserve his legacy and protect his family and
fortune.
After 18 years as either president or prime minister, it is now Putin who needs his legacy and
fortune
protected.
When countries with tortured histories get this modicum of good fortune, the rich and powerful should seize the chance to help them develop.
I agree with this goal, and have devoted the last fifteen years of my life and several billion dollars of my
fortune
to attaining it.
Politics is, of course, full of reversals of
fortune.
When he left the Kremlin in 2000, his secret fortune, from real estate, yachts, horses, and other properties, was estimated to be worth at least $15 million.
He and his emotional wife spoke publicly against bourgeois injustices and luxury, while secretly amassing a private
fortune.
His great good
fortune
was to outlive Keynes by almost 50 years, and thus to claim a posthumous victory over a rival who had savaged him intellectually while he was alive.
And, more often than not, it is dialogue that sets cooperation apart from conflict, and progress from painful reversals of
fortune.
He was accustomed to good fortune, for his huntsmen took precautions.
This reversal of
fortune
could begin next month, when Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to lose the decisive parliamentary vote on her Brexit deal.
Many Americans – to their great good
fortune
– do not have the experience to understand how much the misdeeds of powerful people and institutions are known while nothing is done.
He has spent large chunks of his personal
fortune
on the promotion of liberal democratic values in former Communist countries.
Thaksin’s rapid reversal of political
fortune
attests to the limits of the ballot box, as well as to democratic shortcomings that now beset a host of developing countries, including regional neighbors such as the Philippines.
Not surprisingly, farmers and tribal groups often felt exploited as savvy buyers purchased their land for a pittance and resold it for a
fortune.
Reed made precisely this point in speaking to the suitability of Steve Mnuchin – a former Goldman Sachs executive vice president – as Treasury Secretary:“[A]n individual who made his
fortune
aggressively foreclosing on his fellow Americans does not possess the right values, in my view, to be our Treasury Secretary.
Though good
fortune
has ended, its thought patterns linger, making it even harder to introduce needed changes.
Yet his administration is preparing to pursue an economic program that, while positive in some respects, will not deliver the reversal of economic
fortune
his key constituency was promised.
There are exceptions to this rule, of course – Churchill, Adenauer, Deng, Reagan – but states cannot count on
fortune
bringing an exceptional ruler their way.
But it strains the imagination to link Africa’s colonial-era pains with the willingness of African leaders to spend a
fortune
to equip their countries with state-of-the-art settlement systems, and then proceed to exclude their citizens from using them.
A famous developer with his name on all sorts of edifices and a personal fortune, he had been the star of a long-running prime-time “reality” show – a lodestone of US popular culture.
Among developed countries, this unexpected shift of
fortune
has incited protectionism, exemplified by French calls for de-globalization.
Now for the less exuberant news: without continued economic and policy improvements, the factors that have delighted investors in 2017 risk generating an unpleasant reversal of
fortune.
Both Ruzimuradov and Bekjanov have spent a small
fortune
paying for medical care since their release, owing to the toll nearly two decades in prison took on their health.
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