Fortune
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1051 examples of Fortune in a sentence
Red has just died and the will is read by Red's longtime partner and lawyer Ted (Bill Cobbs) and his devoted assistant Miss Hastings (Lee Meriwether): the family is outraged at the results of Red's division of his
fortune
and the one person who is left to learn of the will's content is Red's egocentric grandson Jason (Drew Fuller).
The car would be worth a
fortune
today.
I had the good
fortune
of catching Subway Stories, by accident, trying to get away from the Astronauts Wife.
Claire Marrable has just lost her husband, her fortune, and her rich and refined way of life.
I had the good
fortune
to work with President Reagan as his chief economic adviser.
The US has had the good
fortune
of choosing largely from among presidential aspirants who adhere to generally accepted norms.
With Trump, it seems that
fortune
has turned into bankruptcy.
Thanks to hard work and lots of good fortune, I managed to graduate from high school and then university.
Today, thanks to hard work, global support, and much good fortune, my future is brighter than it has ever been.
It was my good
fortune
to be reading in Jordan a book called On Identity by Amin Maalouf.
If that sounds farfetched, consider this: Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger is a Brazilian who left home to find his
fortune
in San Francisco.
Beyond the dead or dying seals, penguins, and turtles that had the bad
fortune
of becoming entangled in plastic rings or nets, biologists are finding dead whales and birds with stomachs stuffed with plastic debris.
Not unlike other former US presidents – Jimmy Carter is a notable exception – the Clintons exploited their fame and influence to build up a
fortune.
While Bill made business deals with some shady international figures, Hillary made a lot of her
fortune
by giving speeches to Wall Street firms, the main target of public wrath for causing the Great Recession of 2008.
These drawbacks apply to central banks’ forward guidance generally, and are leaving them hostage to
fortune.
That strategy, however, costs a
fortune
and is becoming unaffordable.
These Wall Street princes were smarter in one way, however: they managed to pocket a
fortune
while the rest of us are stuck with the mess they left behind.
After all, he relies on oil for government revenue, and, according to recent leaks, is allegedly accumulating a massive personal
fortune
overseas.
Sultan’s
fortune
is estimated at $270 billion, which he distributed between his sons prior to his death in order to shore up their political position in the competitive princely arena.
Suddenly, David became the world’s best-known Malawian because it was his good
fortune
to be adopted by Madonna, the pop star who is to TV cameras what honey is to bears.
But was it really good
fortune?
His decision to give away a large portion of his
fortune
has made him immensely popular.
To be clear, every individual who has amassed a major
fortune
in Russia did so at least partly in cooperation with the state.
The RMB’s reversal of
fortune
reflects four factors in particular.
His large
fortune
was tantamount to a gift from the ANC’s Black Economic Empowerment programs in the 1990s.
Even earlier than Carnegie, who quit at 65, Gates will devote his life to spending his huge
fortune
on philanthropy.
But, by leaving the bulk of his fortune, approximately $31 billion, to the Gates Foundation, he will have done the next best thing.
The Western-educated heir to a shipping fortune, and unusually well connected with the global elite, Tung was thought to be a conservative, thoughtful, cosmopolitan man imbued with liberal values and free of ties to the powerful families that dominated the real-estate industry in the territory.
The Kurds in CommandEAST LANSING, MICHIGAN – In a remarkable change of fortune, Turkey’s long-marginalized Kurdish minority is poised to play a pivotal role in the country’s politics.
To be sure, Saakashvili became famous as Georgia’s justice minister for submitting corruption charges against the Shevardnadze family, and early in his presidency was able to reclaim for the state $15 million dollars of the Shevardnadze
fortune.
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