Sentences with phrase «hostage to fortune»

In 1610 Francis Bacon wrote: «He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.»

European Jews don't have such clear guidelines, and therefore become hostages to the fortunes of political clashes in which their freedom of worship is just one consideration among many.

The last thing we need is a candidate who leaves hostages to fortune like that interview.

To try to find gaps in the cosmic web (woven without seam) in order to introduce the creator God is to play the game on an atheistic philosophical field and is thus a massive hostage to fortune.

Even in a tournament where one player imposed his personal will like no other in history, the outcome was still hostage to fortune.

McCluskey continues: «That is a vast hostage to fortune.

Miliband is thought to be critical of the «flatlining» gesture Balls makes at PMQs, saying it makes the party hostage to fortune and is anyway inaccurate now there is an economic recovery.

But worse than that were the interventions from Harriet Harman and Owen Smith; which left you shouting «noooooo» at BBC News, because they left such a clear hostage to fortune in implying that «Falkirk was a one - off».

In paying these market premiums the investors gives precious hostages to fortunes, for he must depend on the stock market itself to validate his commitments»

It can also leave us hostages to fortune as new discoveries reveal amazing abilities in higher animals.

Over a century ago in England Samuel Wilberforce was so discouraged that for a time he avoided marriage, not wanting to beget children, «hostages to fortune,» he said, in so ill a world.

You are making yourself a hostage to fortune, but I hope you are right.

I would never commit myself to such a bold statement, because it will leave you a hostage to fortune, the subject of much mickey taking if your predictions are wrong, but quietly forgotten in the euphoria if you are proven right!

England manager makes himself a hostage to fortune by predicting great things for his team in Brazil.

This is because, by being in such a rush to cosy up to him, May made herself a hostage to fortune, tying her own political prospects to a president who is unconventional at best, and unhinged at worst.

By proposing to give the the unpredictable president the red carpet treatment, the PM has made herself a hostage to fortune.

The manifesto is carefully calibrated not only to dodge the hostages to fortune of 2010, but also to offer plenty of scope for the Lib Dems to cut a deal with whichever party, Labour or Conservatives, are in a position to offer a second coalition.

Ed Balls was right to commit to a # 10bn capital spending programme particularly directed at social housing construction, which would be good for job creation as well as meeting a large and growing social need, but he queered his pitch by saying he would accept the spending cuts Osborne is going to spell out on 26 June (why give a hostage to fortune when he doesn't even know what those cuts will be?)

It's the sort of promise which makes you a hostage to fortune.

In the leadership campaign, he posed as a principled Eurosceptic and offered the hostage to fortune that his EPP discomfort turned out to be.

David Cameron may have made himself a hostage to fortune when he pledged to lead the greenest government ever back in 2010.

David Cameron may have made himself a hostage to fortune when pledging to lead the greenest government ever in 2010.

So far so good, I've been enjoying Yes please, learned a couple of new words, mostly idioms I haven't heard before like «hostage to fortune».

- «Hostages to Fortune: The Cast» — A look into the award - winning actors and their connections to their real - world characters.

But towards the end she also utters this hostage to fortune: «Oh God, spare me the bad drama!

Extras: Eight deleted scenes, «Ridley Scott: Crafting a Historical Thriller» featurette, «Hostages to Fortune: The Cast»; «Recast, Reshot, Reclaimed» featurette that follows the unprecedented recasting of the character J. Paul Getty a little over a month before the film's theatrical release.

Books that influenced Phil: The Hardy Boys, When the Lion Feeds by Wilbur Smith, Illusions by Richard Bach, Raise the Titanic, Clive Cussler, A Hostage to Fortune by Ernest K Gann.

I think yesterday was the first time I've posted as a «hostage to fortune `, buying and posting just ahead of a company's annual results!

I've no desire to be a hostage to fortune, but I think we can make some intelligent assumptions about their results — and there's an important issue I want to highlight:

[Um, does writing that immediately make me a hostage to fortune?

Everything becomes a hostage to fortune here.

Charles Saatchi, whose gift for titles is second to none, has come up with a hostage to fortune.

But they do know that explaining what the consensus is, and what sceptics» arguments are, would be to give a hostage to fortune.

But it also leaves China a «hostage to fortune» through increasing nuclear accident risk.