Sentences with phrase «ill fortune»

The good man can not be harmed by ill fortune, not even by death, for he has learned to live within himself and to think nothing good except virtue itself.
The notion of encountering ill fortunes if you cross the path of a black cat is a universal belief in many parts of the world.
When the goal did come, it was a stroke of ill fortune for Roma.
As ill fortune would have it, she accidentally finds herself in the world of high powered backroom poker games.
Investors buying REOs and short sales in foreclosure markets convert them to rental units and homeowners in the same locale who have lost their homes to foreclosure rent homes that until recently were owned by other families who suffered the same ill fortune.
At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifull small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune, but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has never faced.
Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way.
If we discount the unfairness and ill fortune of external circumstance which doubtless are involved in this lame finish of many good beginnings, we still have left a large amount of inability to see life through which must be due to lack of character.
These are the ill fortunes of sport.
Full moons and new moons have long been omens of strange happenings and ill fortunes.
At the helm of the Dying Gull, his pitifully small and shabby ship, Captain Jack seeks not only to reverse his recent spate of ill fortune, but to save his very life from the most formidable and malicious foe he has ever faced.
Managing the What Ifs... Whilst school trips are statistically one of the safest environments for children to be in, as with any journey or event in life, accidents and ill fortune can unfortunately strike.
For myself, I must somehow erect a bulwark against the ill fortune that is certain.
Obeah specialists are hired to harm persons who would hardly suspect the instigator of wishing them ill fortune.
We have approximately 60 years of overall litigation experience, and have the good fortune to obtain fee / costs recoveries as well as the ill fortune to sometimes lose the defense of fee petitions / costs memoranda in particular cases.
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