Fortune
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Their good
fortune
is not due to their domestic policies, but to hydrocarbons in Azerbaijan’s case and, in Belarus, to Russian subsidies.
That is a
fortune
for a poor family struggling to make ends meet.
The sense of US good fortune, a phrase that is not often heard around the world these days, increased with the panelists’ description of how lower energy prices for US manufacturing has a broad positive impact on the American economy’s competitiveness.
It was Nelson Mandela’s – and South Africa’s – good
fortune
that President F.W. de Klerk was a willing partner in ending apartheid.
It was far more common to attribute successes or failures to an external source: fortune, or fortuna.
Two days earlier, Trump had referred to climate scientists as “the heirs of yesterday’s foolish
fortune
tellers.”
Their occasional marches were almost a source of comic relief – stories saved for slow news days, alongside the pensioner who bequeaths a
fortune
to his cat.
These local and folk practices encompass everything from spiritual healing to rites of passage,
fortune
telling, and preparations for love, death, and war.
Thanks to the World Bank’s arbitrators, the rich are making a
fortune
at the expense of poor countries.
The Inequality Debate We NeedCAMBRIDGE – While denizens of the world’s wealthiest economies debate the fate and
fortune
of the middle class, over 800 million people worldwide have no access to electricity.
Or, in the more popular paraphrase: behind every great
fortune
lies a great crime.
Jeff Bezos had foresight, revolutionized retail, and made a
fortune.
With the mega-hubris of a mega-billionaire, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks he can buy the Democratic nomination by spending $1 billion of his $62 billion
fortune
on campaign ads, and then defeat fellow billionaire Donald Trump in November.
As a result, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s personal
fortune
has increased by over $70 billion, or 68%, since the pandemic began, while Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth has risen by $30 billion to $87.8 billion.
And unlike on state TV, its leading voices cannot get away with shoddy work or mistakes, lest they lose viewers (and thus their chance at fame and fortune).
Meanwhile, Ji’s long-time cronies made a
fortune
during his tenure.
Hence, immigrants flocked to them, too, pursuing
fortune
or merely new opportunities for their children.
Bloomberg has taken the Giving Pledge, committing himself to giving at least half of his
fortune
to charity.
Throughout the book, he milks the episode for all its humor, recounting stories of ignorant sailors literally swallowing a
fortune
by mistaking tulip bulbs for onions.
He had run through an enormous fortune, was a kind man, honest in his way but quite unable to understand present-day requirements.
'And he will make a fortune, while you and I must be thankful if we can keep what we have and leave it to our children.'
You see, my whole
fortune
is here,' and he pointed to a side pocket, 'and now I am a rich man; but I shall go to the club to-night and shall perhaps leave it a beggar.
Getting into conversation with the young man, Katavasov learnt that he had been a rich Moscow merchant but had run through a large
fortune
before he was twenty-two.
The Grégoires' fortune, about forty thousand francs a year, was entirely invested in a share of the Montsou mines.
The
fortune
began with Félicien, who was able to realize a dream with which his grandfather, the old steward, had nursed his childhood--the purchase of dismembered Piolaine, which he acquired as national property for a ludicrous sum.
But being an enterprising engineer, tormented by the desire for a royal fortune, he had hastened to sell out when the denier had reached a million.
It was there that he married, wedding, by one of those strokes of
fortune
which are the rule among the Corps des Mines, the daughter of the rich owner of a spinning factory at Arras.
And she insisted with the cruelty of an heiress who had brought her own
fortune.
You may be sure that if the revolution triumphs, it will force you to restore your
fortune
as stolen money."
He stammered:"Stolen money, my
fortune!
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