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Sentence Examples Luzhin feels that all the dreams and fancies of having Dounia as his wife is in jeopardy because of a unforeseen turn of fortunes. The fund will be focused on selecting good quality companies in the expectation of an upturn in fortunes. Whether royal servants consistently made fortunes from fees and peculation seems doubtful. The city's population grew during that decade from 70,000 to over 500,000, as fortunes were won and lost on the nearby gold reefs. In fact, his work of this period is both more difficult and more transgressive than his fortunes in the history of art have acknowledged. If he plays like that every time he is captain, we are in for a revival of England football fortunes. They have made their fortunes, acquired stock options and are sought after the world over. War had brought unparalleled and unprecedented personal fortunes for Rome's victorious generals. The fortunes of working families rise and fall with conditions in the labor market. While some people were busy fighting and dying, war profiteers made fortunes selling rotten food, unserviceable uniforms and non-working weapons. We are individually shaped by our fortunes and misfortunes, by our upbringing, by the labyrinthine patterns of our hates and pleasures. This combined in the autumn of 1981 with a revival in the fortunes of the Deutschmark. A more serious potential disadvantage is that asset-based loan amounts will fall with a company's fortunes. During the great California gold rush of 1849, thousands of forty-niners made fortunes mining gold. Their reasons for emigrating in the first place were mostly economic and the tales of fortunes to be made abroad spurred them on. Some of these will make fortunes for their directors and some will not, but it's anyone's guess which will thrive and which will fail. The brewery intends to turn round the fortunes of the English pint, which is facing tough opposition from chilled lagers and Irish ales. While the upturn in fortunes is notable, what has been more impressive is the dazzling way they have managed it. Overseas, there are encouraging examples of leadership transforming the fortunes of a country by investing in its children. The Dane is truly an enigma whose ever-changing fortunes are shrouded in mystery. Show More Sentences But dissidence in both the parties is likely to tilt the fortunes marginally in Naidu's favour. Those in power ensured it was they who landed the top positions inside the new enterprises and accumulated outrageous fortunes. But typically, the fortunes built by one generation will be completely dissipated by the second or third generation. Sir Roger Scatcherd dies of drink and his dissipated son Louis almost immediately follows him, leaving the Scatcherd fortunes without an heir. The small shareholders will be hoping to turn around the fortunes of a speculative investment that so many have come to bitterly regret. The party's electoral fortunes also revived in the state elections and by-elections. Moreover, the absolute and relative fortunes of individual businesses are endlessly changing. What is there to stop the same thing happening to the team should they experience a downturn in fortunes? Each day, I'll be posting the running totals for each decade, so that you can track the ebb and flow of their fortunes as the project runs on. And the souring of relations between the party and these two proved major milestones in the downswing of the PD fortunes. As the epigram to this article demonstrates, militaristic language dramatized the contest beyond mere political fortunes. Both Hyundai and Nissan have reversed their U.S. automotive fortunes but to differing degrees. Whether or not Kidd decides to re-up in New Jersey, he's turned the fortunes of the franchise around. Why have political fortunes been so much better for Democratic centrists than Republicans? The French and Italians spend small fortunes on these added extras, and always look smart and stylish as a result. But the bulk of it was sold off to the rich patricians who had made fortunes from war and provincial administration. Inclination to idleness, which public institutions have fostered among certain nations, not only binds men, but also fetters fortunes. It's a fascinating book following the fortunes of the horse and its owners. Mindy obtains a Taoist Magic book and uses the spells and incantations within to reverse her mother's fortunes. The fortunes of the family continued to rise and, in 1789, the 7th Earl, James Cecil, was elevated in the peerage to a marquess. Show More Sentences In fact the two cousins have gone very separate routes in amassing their respective fortunes. The boundaries of the Palatinate varied with the political and dynastic fortunes of the Counts Palatine. Less than four years ago, media marketers and channel executives imagined fondly that their fortunes lay in women. Two events foreshadow a significant change in the fortunes of marriage and family in Australia. But sometimes it was the locals who were bushwhacked out of fortunes by false promises of funds from China. Last night was a microcosm of the contrasting fortunes for the two Geordies. They built extravagant houses, opened grandiose museums and spent not just one, but several, fortunes on art. However, Scotland's steel industry was over-reliant on the fluctuating fortunes of the British shipbuilding yards. As late as 1927, the year of the first big sound film, the Jazz singer still sounded eupeptic about vaudeville's fortunes. Take-up across the European office markets remains weak with little improvement expected before an upturn in economic fortunes. Hundreds of thousands of tonnes of cod were taken out each year, building up great fortunes for those that fished it. That is a situation to gladden many a heart, but what is the reason behind the turn around in fortunes? During the Norian age the fortunes of the many types of Carnian terrestrial herbivores seem to have declined. The stage victory marked a reversal of fortunes for the 26-year-old who lost the prologue when his chain came off close to the finish. If the Erskine scheme comes to pass, it will mark a significant change in fortunes for similar proposals. Following the fortunes of a gang losers, wasters and thieves on a near-derelict council estate might not seem like a barrel of laughs. The London Market's fortunes continued to see-saw yesterday as the City digested yet another dramatic session. The boom-and-bust economy sent a few poor men to the pinnacle of success while merchants dreaded overstocked markets and plummeting fortunes. There would be a white heat of new ideas, invention, fortunes being made and fortunes being lost. Curiously, O'Reilly was initially uncontactable when asked to share his emotions on this latest twist to his godson's fortunes. Show More Sentences But can so much really rest on the fortunes of 58 species of butterfly breeding in Britain? All political parties are agreed that something needs to be done to reverse the fortunes. We are doing a marvellous job of bringing through young players and the upturn in fortunes is just around the corner. In Japan, where top riders earn fortunes, the tracks are less steeply banked and they race on all-weather asphalt, rather than wooden surfaces. That they are even close to setting a defensive record is testament to their turn-around in fortunes this season. The fortunes of the traditional coir yarn spinners, mat weavers and carpet-makers have been on the downtrend. And yes, manufacturers' fortunes are on the mend, but few besides airplane makers are celebrating. While international news might be bad, our personal fortunes are frequently good. Possibly the rot set in a bit when Dalglish took over, and then when Ruud Gullit failed so badly to revive their fortunes. The pint-sized player will be hoping for better fortunes in New York, where she has made three quarter-final appearances. That, the researcher says, spells a rosy future for companies seeking their fortunes in mobile-based e-commerce. Camp followers shared the military fortunes of the armies they accompanied. Could the Guardian's crack team of theatre experts give the show an instant makeover and turn its fortunes around? He misses the final as he is on holiday but leaves the team's fortunes in the capable hands of Simon Barker. Once again we see how the fortunes of modern European science intertwined with the vicissitudes of colonial expansion. Given his feats, birthright, and fortunes, he concludes that he does, in fact, deserve Portia. What is there to stop the same thing happening to the Bulls should they experience a downturn in fortunes? The club's fortunes were considered to be inextricably entwined with those of their, supposedly, one stellar performer. The end of the depression in 1878 and the government's resumption of specie payments in 1879 had sapped the party's fortunes. Residents have also been urged to gather information on troublemakers in a bid to turn the estate's fortunes around. Show More Sentences But fortunes took a sudden twist when Customs reverted to an aggressive counter-attack launched from the left-flank. That move is widely credited with reversing the airlines sagging financial fortunes. The man who rebuilt sagging fortunes at TCU and Alabama, among other stops, was shellshocked by last year's 4-8 disaster. The Consequences of Love, directed by Paolo Sorrentino, is meant to signal a revival in the fortunes of Italian cinema. The brothers' contrasting fortunes instill a sense of survivor's guilt in Porter. We follow the fortunes of the Maclean family through Norman's eyes and Redford's voice and the story has a genuine ring of truth to it. By making their fortunes on the backs of common Russians, the oligarchs themselves are a pretty unsympathetic lot. Like other hardware and chip makers, the company said it saw no turnaround in its fortunes and gave a gloomy forecast of falling computer sales. The IRC said it was very difficult to remain informed as to the fortunes of immigrants who leave the country unannounced. Vast fortunes were made and an already wealthy city became the ascendant center of power in the new United States. The declining fortunes of the male soul singer may well be the late Barry White's most lasting legacy. The son has to decide whether blowing the gaff will do more harm than trying to restore the fortunes by continued dishonesty. While wooden floorboards have become the flooring of choice for many Irish homemakers, carpets and rugs have seen their fortunes decline. As those markets change, so too, do the fortunes of cooperatives and members. Why strive for anything if the die has been cast by the supreme and omnipotent mediator of human fortunes? There was a half-brother, too, a bad egg who was nevertheless well-off because of his father's fortunes. They were bidding everything they had, fortunes, homes, businesses, tools, their futures on possessing a prized bulb that might break. Instead, the one-armed bandit operated stock scams said to have helped establish the fortunes of many of today's local social elite. This quiet and taciturn man has been as responsible as any individual for the rise in England's fortunes. When the economy boomed, a handful of men made great fortunes in railroads, steel and finance. Show More Sentences Manifest in the two friends' fortunes is the malign effect of commercialism. His Irish ancestors had emigrated to the United States in the early 19th century and made fortunes in logging and railroading. Great fortunes have usually been built by industrial tycoons, sometimes known as robber barons. Drinkers can gaze into distorting mirrors, try out the dodgems or roundabouts or have their fortunes read. Dedicated to improving her fortunes, Paul recently took the exam to become a certified public accountant. Stewart hopes to turn around the fortunes of a company that produces everything from television shows to bakeware. However, such were the vicissitudes of English fortunes that the link with wealth was far more complex than King and Defoe appeared to recognize. But poker is most interesting when the stakes are high and small fortunes rest on the draw of a card. This loss is the more to be lamented, because the heir to his fortunes is unhappily not the heir to his graces. And they will hire the finest lawyers and planners to navigate their private fortunes safely through the arcane niceties of the tax code. The tax figures suggest that companies whose fortunes are tied to the slowing world economy are cutting jobs and curtailing staff bonus payments. More to the point, for all his maundering about the estate tax, it hasn't done anything to break up the great fortunes of our era. Last year, though, his fortunes took a turn for the worse, and he finished a disappointing ninth. This is nonetheless the India of economic potential, the place where the fortunes of adventurous nabobs were made. Although about half have provided an heir and a spare to inherit their fortunes, almost half have not even seen the inside of a maternity ward. A dry skepticism likewise informs her views on the art world, and on the varying fortunes of Duchamp's work and reputation within it. The company's financial fortunes seemed irretrievably tied to databases and large e-commerce suites. Multiple factors have contributed to this seemingly irrevocable reversal of fortunes. I have enjoyed watching the bean geese over a 40-year period and have witnessed their changing fortunes through the decades. In the risks, gambles and chances by which entrepreneurs risk their fortunes on new ventures, capitalism enters a new heroic phase. Show More Sentences The contract needs to follow the fortunes of Reliance National as respects to subrogation. Yorkshire's tourist attractions experienced mixed fortunes last year as the country baked in the scorching summer weather. The tinkers live by mending pots and pans, telling fortunes and selling horses and ponies at the various fairs throughout the country. The publishers as well as the journalists of sensationalism have gained fortunes but certainly not honor. In a nutshell, coal ports are exposed to the vulnerability that stems from overdependence on the fortunes of a single commodity. But now the chain's fortunes have collapsed under the weight of mismanagement, overexpansion, and accounting probes. Alongside the new housing estates the thriving Rowallan Business Park is the other overt sign of an upturn in economic fortunes. The fortunes of Surrey were naturally closely bound up with the fortunes of London. Tom Russell said the sporting spectacular had helped kickstart a change in fortunes for the area. The Wasps won their first match in 11 turbulent months last week and Precious believes it could signal an ongoing upturn in fortunes. But the violent swings in the electoral pendulum have implications that go far beyond the fortunes of the two major parties. One of the good things about being a superpower is that countries the world over want to tie their economic fortunes to yours. For Christmas or New Year's, fortunes in the form of coins, cornel cherry twigs, or slips of paper are inserted in banitsa or bread. A class of gentlemen farmers was emerging in Chile, some of whom had made their fortunes as a result of Chile's rich mineral deposits. They looked upon electoral victory as licence to abuse power, help cronies and amass huge fortunes. Except he is not a man to allow his napper to reside in clouds, despite the club's fortunes taking off during his three-year stewardship. The celebrations are expected to be modest and low-key, a reflection of the falling economic fortunes of the territory. The second consequence was that many fortunes were made by university academics when their embryonic companies were floated on the stock market. She helped to change the image and fortunes of the estate by improving facilities, particularly for the young. The young director hopes the play will restore the last-gasp fortunes of the Courtenay Theatre. Show More Sentences Despite the turn in his public fortunes, privately it's been a difficult year. He hoped that a successful outcome in the Special Election would reverse his sagging political fortunes. Both men have seen their fortunes rise and fall with the opinion poll results. Workers at a famous Bolton factory have helped turn around their company's fortunes. His reaction amounts to an acknowledgement that the fortunes of the national side inform everything. But it was a trip to Ireland that really transformed the company's fortunes. In fact, only a handful of the wealthy allow their entire fortunes to be taxed. Great scientific achievements are in prospect, and vast fortunes are to be made. The young would be lured in with promises of amassing great fortunes in private accounts. On paper, this bodes well for trust fund children set to inherit the family fortunes. It was in the interests of those who have made vast and largely illicit fortunes at the expense of society that this war was fought. Since 1987 Forbes has scoured the globe tracking the fortunes of the world's wealthiest people and uncovering new faces. It is the fortunes of war and I could just have easily have come out the other way. The missions will grow and change to reflect the fortunes of war, and your faction's standing in the war. This was an anomalous position in American law, and one that the fortunes of war and necessities of politics made frustrating. There is no doubt that the protest against the concert was a cynical ploy aimed at trying to revive the party's sagging fortunes. Before then, there was something faintly disreputable about really big fortunes. His persistence was rewarded unexpectedly, and in a way that had a great influence on the fortunes of his party as a whole. He said he was a renowned merchant, entertainer, recoverer of misplaced fortunes, and problem-solver. While the country's fortunes looked good, he wrote his share of tub-thumping patriotic works. Show More Sentences Rousseff, now 62, has lived a wild political life, mirroring the changing fortunes of her country. The result marks a dramatic turnaround in World Cup fortunes for England. The son brings a small mound of rice, water, and flowers or fruit, and beseeches his forebears to keep their protective watch over the family and its fortunes. Her father, Leonard, who made and lost three fortunes on the New York Stock Exchange, was well-off at the time of her marriage, but no longer wealthy. I cut a driver into the wind to about 12 feet and although I didn't hole it for eagle, it was a birdie and a change of fortunes in the tournament. The village of Qift, for instance, has been continuously occupied for 5,000 years, and has seen its fortunes rise and fall. Warfare is important not just because the fortunes of battle are consequential but also because of the many kinds of conflict induced by state-led mobilizations of resources. He has also followed their fortunes in the post-war period, showing how they rehabilitated their careers and reconstructed their network of activities. They were making small fortunes through allowances and overtime pay. In 1751 John Home married, and David and his sister set up house in Edinburgh, moving to slightly more luxurious quarters as his fortunes improved. Six years later, the terrific tandem is together again, their significant signings evidence of how important one player can be to his team's fortunes. Suddenly the doorman announces that an old crone, a hag palmist is at the door, demanding to tell the fortunes of the young and single women in the room. They see him as having eclipsed Newt Gingrich, whose fortunes have sagged since his brief, shining moment in South Carolina. The documentary also follows the fortunes of Consuelo Yznaga, later Duchess of Manchester. She is in her physical prime and at the zenith of her fortunes. By focusing on cost reduction and cash generation, Lord Hanson brought about a startling revival in the fortunes of many companies that he acquired. Boyana Film Studios, housed in a vast complex of buildings and situated in 30 hectares of parkland, has seen a dramatic revival of its fortunes in recent years. Moreover, while some of the enterprises of the old oligarchical families were jeopardized by free trade, their personal fortunes were generally not. The Restoration did not bring the looked-for revival of Crowe's fortunes. An agricultural machinery manufacturer is hoping a revolutionary muck spreader will help transform its fortunes after being hit by the crisis in farming. Show More Sentences The turnabout in his fortunes came when he teamed up with someone who ran tax-planning conferences and worked out how much his colleague was making. Those who have followed the fortunes of the Australian press know that foreign ownership without a real attachment to Australia is a two-edged sword. To even imply that is to insult the mind-set and values of those faceless multitudes who flock to the cinema halls every other day and make or mar the fortunes of many a film. After all, few chairmen in history have seen their party's fortunes reverse in such a staggeringly short amount of time. Since then, those who follow its fortunes have had little to observe beyond the continuing unedifying spectacle of very public settling of internal squabbles. But his tireless energy, his matchless ability to persuade advertisers that space in his pages was worth buying, transformed the Digest's fortunes in India. One moment of effervescence in 2002 does not signal a change in fortunes. There are those who believe that they live a charmed life, that fate, willy-nilly, awards them undeserved fortunes and opportunities that seemingly drop into their laps. The plot reads as pure sudser, but is executed head held high, with self-assurance standing in place of self-pity, and fate sidestepped for the fortunes we make in its place. As the weather deteriorated from brilliant sunshine at the start of play to miasmal gloom in the second half, so the away side's fortunes began to rally. Palmistry, also known as chiromancy, is the practice of telling fortunes from the lines, marks, and patterns on the hands, particularly the palms. In all that time, following an all-too brief flirtation with the big time, they employed a total of 12 managers to try and spark a revival in fortunes. She wants to turn the team's fortunes around quickly, whatever it takes. She answers an enigmatic classified ad and travels to New York City not to make her fortune, for fortunes are rare in the sixth year of the Great Depression, but to survive. In our twice-yearly updates of these charts, we will be measuring how well the new mayor succeeds in improving the fortunes of the city he inherited from his predecessor. At the top of the economic ladder are tens of thousands of millionaires and multimillionaires who have made huge fortunes through financial speculation in the last decade. Paul, my mentor, as he was called, was a tall, not unhandsome, boy from the year above me, whose wealthy parents had made their fortunes from the egg retail industry. Instead, now we have a political science case-study proving how political fortunes can shift and change at warp speed. Six years in India, painting nabobs and rajas, restored his fortunes. The 'lookers on', now transformed into a sophisticated, fee-paying audience, could make or break the actors' fortunes with their verdict on the performance. Show More Sentences Their first single, Life in a Day, made it to a fairly unspectacular 62 in the UK charts, and it was to be a few more years before their fortunes changed. Two-Dollar Bill and his gang had arrived in Goatswood, another boom town serving the hundreds of panhandlers and sodbusters coming into the territory to make their fortunes. A leading hotel group based in York has demonstrated its confidence in an upturn in the fortunes of UK tourism by commissioning a huge extension to its headquarters. Numerous winters have brought heavy snowfalls and low temperature and fortunes of stockmen have been dissipated in one season because of these adverse conditions. You've also got the squattocracy in this novel, and the huge fortunes which were being made in the pastoral country around Melbourne and around Geelong. But there was no change of fortunes for the Frenchman as he continued where he had left off finding superb depth with his unorthodox double-handed forehand and backhand. The office of the papacy had become the prize to be won in the feuds and battles among noble Roman families, and these feuds had often affected the fortunes of the popes. In a short scene the Poles, characterised by mazurkas and polonaises, lament the downturn in their fortunes and decide to go in search of the new Russian Tsar and capture him. He can be a head coach or an assistant whose masterful handling of his players and creation of game plans make a huge difference in a team's fortunes. The billionaires would be allowed to keep their dubiously acquired fortunes, and no inquest would be held into the state sell-offs that made them rich. It didn't matter that now her family had fallen from their fortunes through the foolishness and excessiveness of her grandparents and her own parents. Yet it might provide the foundation for a revival in Tory fortunes. The sudden rise in poll fortunes last month, when the party was neck and neck with Labour for the first time in a decade, appears to have been little more than a blip. The company's fortunes, however, changed dramatically with the introduction and rapid growth of a market for high yielding auto asset-backed securities. The result is that Cuba's territorial waters are a treasure diver's dream, covering fortunes in Spanish gold and silver, ingots, coins and jewellery. By 1879, his arrogance and conceit having ruined a lucrative relationship with his wealthy patron, Frederick Leyland, Whistler's fortunes were at an all-time low. From that low point, though, his fortunes quickly took an upturn. The game has always been controlled by wealthy people, often successful local businessmen who fritter away their fortunes on the vain hope of glory for their team. The Pritzkers can only hope that all their current troubles will be fleeting, a brief spasm rather than the beginning of a decline in their fortunes. Undoubtedly, the enormous inherited fortunes of the aristocracy facilitated a certain eccentricity. Show More Sentences Nor do they expect other people to believe this, sparking a hysteria that could make the fortunes of those with bullion. Many mercenaries slaughtered their way to power, casually betraying even close family to secure their fortunes. In a matter of a few weeks, William Hague, once head of a struggling gathering of washed-up, latter-day Tories, has seen his fortunes miraculously transformed. He argues that the former accumulated their fortunes in specie. Most of the big futurities have these future fortunes side pots. Liverpool and Chelsea have spent fortunes and haven't won the Premiership. She and her colleagues tracked the fortunes of 1,113 foundresses in 228 nests in southern Spain. By the time the London Wall was constructed, the City's fortunes were in decline, and it faced problems of plague and fire. Hopes of something better for the Cornishmen were therefore high despite a mixed bag of fortunes throughout their rollercoaster of a season. Domestic offtake further reduced silver in circulation as the improving fortunes of the merchant class led to increased demand for tablewares. A Standard Life spokesman defended the awards, citing the leadership's efforts in turning round the company's fortunes. Initially the new government had little success, but in 1220 the fortunes of Henry's government began to improve. The fortunes of Merthyr revived temporarily during World War II, as war industry was established in the area. The development of the oil industry also helped to boost the town's fortunes. Ironically it was another war that led to a resurgence in Tenby's fortunes. Khan's cockiness is based on his sharply rising political fortunes in the past one year. But as fortunes have peaked and troughed, mines, mills and plants have come and gone. There were differing fortunes for Red House Farm teams Falcons and Kites in La Liga Two. Still, attention to fortunes stemming from landholdings would have made the book more convincing to a wide audience. The nexus of dynastic politics, cronyism, militarism and evangelicism poses a serious threat to the fortunes of the United States. Show More Sentences Geoff Gower had mixed fortunes with his two runners, Whistlewood and Whistlewind. Downturns in business fortunes have always produced unanticipated changes in direction and resultant shakeouts. Frederick rejected the proposal, although Prussian fortunes were at a low ebb by 1761 following defeats on several fronts. The group's fortunes improved when McCartney recommended them to the organizers of the Monterey Pop Festival. They also supported the project economically, supplying money from their personal fortunes. With the emperor's departure, divisions in his opponents' ranks allowed Roger to reverse his fortunes. The book follows the fortunes of two families through the years. Much of Barcelona was negatively affected by the Napoleonic wars, but the start of industrialisation saw the fortunes of the province improve. At one point, the Medicis managed most of the great fortunes in the European world, from members of royalty to merchants. The fortunes of the well-off have suffered considerably less in this economy than those middle and lower incomes. They are lyrical and Boethian in their description of the up and down fortunes of life. Hastening her decline has been a downturn in Brazil's economic fortunes. Glasgow merchants made such fortunes that they adopted the style of aristocrats in their superior manner and in their lavish homes and churches. This is the ceremony that became the famous El Dorado, which has taken so many lives and fortunes. The war could not be blamed for the downturn in Welsh fortunes as all the home nations lost their young talent in equal numbers. Their own fortunes were so vast and so diversified that they were largely unaffected by the stock exchange's fickle rollercoastering activity. My means and my conditions are no shamers Of him that owes 'em, And my friends no reliers on my fortunes. Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation. The fall of Toulon at the end of December 1793 severely damaged British fortunes in the Mediterranean. Whichever object the child shows most interest in is said to reveal the child's path and fortunes in adulthood. Show More Sentences During Glock's tenure, the profile and fortunes of the BBC SO began to rise. However, despite the crisis in aristocratic fortunes, the following decade was one of several great bequests from private collectors. What's more, recent work suggests that the fortunes of any individual loner or clinger can vary depending on the blend in the neighborhood. Across the centuries the fortunes of the two religions have risen and fallen in a sequence of momentous surges, pauses, and countersurges. The area of the March varied as the fortunes of the Marcher Lords and the Welsh princes ebbed and flowed. Not only did he fit up innocent men, he pocketed fortunes from big name gangsters. Margaret's fortunes improved under Henry VIII and in February 1512 she was restored to the earldom of Salisbury and all the Warwicks' lands. After the death of Joan of Arc, the fortunes of war turned dramatically against the English. Yet during his reign he became a fiscally prudent monarch who restored the fortunes of an effectively bankrupt exchequer. Raleigh's management of his Irish estates ran into difficulties, which contributed to a decline in his fortunes. We sat along the fence and told fortunes with paper we folded into cootie catchers. He returned to England in 1679 when Shaftesbury's political fortunes took a brief positive turn. There followed three years of mixed fortunes for him, with successes in fringe productions, but West End stardom was elusive. Clive Gillinson, a cellist, took over at a bad time in the LSO's fortunes, and played a central role in turning them round. At first they found it hard to draw big crowds to Elland Road but their fortunes improved following Herbert Chapman's arrival. Ramsey was replaced by Jackie Milburn, under whose leadership fortunes on the pitch plummeted. Australia reached a cricketing peak in the 1990s and early 2000s, coupled with a general decline in England's fortunes. Wells' tenure saw Tigers fortunes improve and Leicester finished the regular season top of the league in his only full season. It all comes out in a new book about the longrunning comic strip cartoon that followed the fortunes of Roy Race, the star of Melchester Rovers. In relative terms, it could be held there was a modest revival of British fortunes. Show More Sentences By the late 1980s, there had been a significant resurgence in Glasgow's economic fortunes. To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the university had mixed fortunes and was often beset by civil and religious disturbances. Eventually, under Queen Anne, the High Church party saw its fortunes revive with those of the Tory party, with which it was then strongly associated. The book also claims that she married Toby Shipton, a local carpenter, near York in 1512 and told fortunes and made predictions throughout her life. It follows the fortunes of Wilf and Connie who are waiting to be rehoused in a new maisonette with a waste disposal unit and non-slip vinyl flooring. When Banquo asks of his own fortunes, the witches respond paradoxically, saying that he will be less than Macbeth, yet happier, less successful, yet more. The report, Turning the Tide, called for action to revive the fortunes of seaside towns like Rhyl, Margate, Clacton-on-Sea, Great Yarmouth and Blackpool. These events led to an immediate downturn in the fortunes of the Tories, and Pope's friend, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, fled to France. Its fortunes declined after the Second World War, owing to deindustrialisation, but the IRA bombing in 1996 led to extensive investment and regeneration. The fortunes of the Catuvellauni and their kings before the conquest can be traced through ancient coins and scattered references in classical histories. The city's fortunes improved after the Indian economy was liberalised in the 1990s and changes in economic policy were enacted by the West Bengal state government. The real cause of the loss was that the terminal bonuses were not guaranteed and were adversely affected by the downturn in Equitable Life's fortunes. Six months later, fortunes on the pitch had not improved, and Lyall was sacked as Ipswich manager in December 1994 with the club rooted to the bottom of the Premiership. Royle inherited a side struggling near the Division One relegation zone, but revived fortunes such that the team narrowly failed to reach the playoffs. Louis seldom relied on the fortunes of war, but on intrigue and diplomacy. A bagpipe loving pig, three escaped criminals and a generous Sultan donating much needed hay add to the mixed fortunes of this Aussie battler family. Marx Schoenberg and Morris Marks were partisan Republicans who sought their political fortunes in a parish where African Americans comprised the large majority of voters. In 802 the fortunes of Wessex were transformed by the accession of Egbert who came from a cadet branch of the ruling dynasty that claimed descent from Ine's brother Ingild. Under the ensuing economic recovery, many aristocratic Genoese families, such as the Balbi, Doria, Grimaldi, Pallavicini, and Serra, amassed tremendous fortunes. Find more words! 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