| Normal Fortune 500 firms shy away, and when the bidding starts, it is always by the fast buck artists, and the fly-by-nighters. |
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| Ranked among the Fortune 100 companies, their performance and market penetration is increasing by the day. |
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| Another statistic charts CEO pay at Fortune 100 companies as a multiple of the average pay of workers at the same firms. |
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| Its projects range from investigating new markets for Fortune 500 companies to reformulating the business road maps of failing start-ups. |
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| Many Fortune 500 companies believe that basic communications skills training pays back significant dividends. |
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| Academia, historically, has not been as operationally efficient as Fortune 500 companies. |
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| Since the Part of Fortune is a zodiacal point, it can be said to be aspected by planets, but it does not make aspects itself. |
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| For example, the Fortune Cookie ice cream includes bits of fortune cookies enrobed with chocolate. |
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| Fortune smiled on guests who received prizes in lucky draws throughout the evening. |
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| Fortune did not favour the Ballon lads in this second round tie and they found themselves in arrears to a penalty goal after just 15 minutes. |
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| Is wisdom really powerful enough to defeat Fortune, to be the victrix in a battle between the two of them? |
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| Fortune tellers are known for using basic principles and techniques such as math, numerology and Cabalistic symbolism. |
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| He will be powwowing with Fortune 500 executives, foreign leaders, and banking magnates, too. |
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| Fortune was on his side as the ball took a deflection before beating Thompson. |
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| It is on the darers, not on the audacious, that Fortune almost always smiled. |
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| The first, for a shoulder charge by Luke Young, was justifiably denied but the second, when Fortune barged him in the back, looked a good shout. |
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| I don't expect the Fortune 500, the Forbes 1,000, or any other list like that, to create the jobs. |
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| The engravings were produced under his direction, while the introduction and explanatory text were written by Fortune Barthelemy de Felice. |
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| Fortune had been charged with the task of learning the art of tea growing and then obtaining samples of the shrubs. |
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| The sale was a good success and great fun with many prizes won on the wheel of Fortune and in the various raffles. |
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| A corner was worked short by Quinton Fortune, the South African international, and Beckham sent the ball arrowing into the area. |
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| If the birth was indeed after sunset, the Part of Fortune was in conjunction with the MC and in sextile to the Moon. |
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| According to Fortune, about 88 per cent of the operation was bought by the holding company through a Dutch subsidiary. |
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| I am placing an ad in Soldier of Fortune magazine to hire a mercenary to kill me at this very moment. |
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| For comparison, the median net return for all other industries in the Fortune 500 was only 3.3 percent of sales. |
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| The ballet opens and closes with an invocation to ever-changing fate and the wheel of Fortune. |
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| He lost his highly-paid job with a Fortune 500 and was unemployed for well over a year. |
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| However, the Part of Fortune is aspected by a sinister trine from Saturn, ruler of the 2nd, which is good. |
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| Fortune only recently returned to action after 10 months off course because of a serious back problem. |
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| I suppose it was an open secret that Fortune Mike had a kidney problem and that it never really cleared up. |
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| Over 500 top corporations, including a number from the Fortune 500, take part in the program. |
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| The cancer was detected during an abdominal scan in October 2003, as Fortune magazine reported in a 2008 cover story. |
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| Fortune is smiling on you because you will come into an inheritance. |
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| Fortune smiles upon you and the creature drops at your feet. |
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| He endorses the conventional assumption that virtu is the name of that congeries of qualities which enables a prince to ally with Fortune and obtain honour, glory, and fame. |
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| He underwent an operation called a modified Whipple procedure, or a pancreatoduodenectomy, Fortune reported. |
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| Fortune has a great article about the increasing success of store brands. |
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| Through new vistas of business, it was looking at mopping up revenue to become one of the Fortune 500 companies, the Chief Postmaster General of Tamil Nadu circle said. |
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| For a while she became an underwear model for Lejaby, but her big break came when she landed the job as hostess in the TV gameshow Wheel of Fortune. |
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| Bloggers like Tavi Gevinson have parlayed their brand into celebrity and collaborations with Fortune 500 companies. |
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| Other magazines such as Fortune, Vogue and Harper's Bazaar celebrated with vertiginous skyscrapers, statuesque dancing girls or streaks of neon over futuristic cityscapes. |
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| Original serigraphs published by Fortune are created by hand and require three to five months to produce under the direction of skilled artists and artisans. |
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| Giggs tries to slip Fortune through, one-on-one with Baia, only for the luxuriantly coiffured custodian to spring from his line and claim the ball. |
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| Obviously, they weren't keeping up with his Fortune magazine opinion pieces supporting school vouchers, privatization of Social Security, and an end to inheritance taxes. |
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| Virginia has 20 Fortune 500 companies, ranking the state eighth nationwide. |
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| In other words, a majority of the Fortune 500 are of the size of universities, from 500 up to about 40000 employees. |
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| The city of Chicago also hosts 12 Fortune Global 500 companies and 17 Financial Times 500 companies. |
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| Bankable can finally prove he is aptly named by landing the Sandown showpiece Fortune Stakes. |
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| As of 2016, GE had appeared on the Fortune 500 list for 22 years and held the 11th rank. |
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| If he were a corporation instead of a criminal he'd be in the Fortune 500 by now. |
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| For setting wheels within wheels, you cannot match Fortune. After all, she has made trochilics her hobby through all the ages. |
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| Flying was temporarily diverted to East Fortune, which had its runway extended to accommodate the airliners of the period. |
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| Fortune ordinarily cometh after to whip and punish them, as the scourge and tormentress of glory and honour. |
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| Aetna and the Hartford Financial Services Group, both Fortune 100 companies, are headquartered in Hartford. |
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| Hasbro, a Fortune 1000 toy and game making company, is headquartered in Pawtucket. |
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| The mix of games will include Big Bang Piggy Bankin', Mermaid's Gold, Magic Lamp, Pharaoh's Fortune and Winning Streak. |
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| Other useful sources of investment information are business magazines such as Fortune, Forbes, The Economist, Business Week, etc. |
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| The city hosts 51 of the Fortune Global 500 companies, the highest number of any city in the world. |
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| They were supplemented by victories from Admiral of the fleet and Soldier Of Fortune in last week's Derby trials at Chester. |
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| This stir of change and these perpetual echoes of the moving footfall, haunt the land. Men move eternally, still chasing Fortune. |
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| Contenders for Best Prime Time Game Show are ITV's Strike It Rich, Catchphrase, Family Fortunes, Wheel Of Fortune and Big Break. |
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| He driuen to dismount, threatned, if I did not the like, to doo as much for my horse, as Fortune had done for his. |
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| Many Fortune 500 corporations are headquartered in New York City, as are a large number of multinational corporations. |
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| He also viewed Bottom as a lucky man on whom Fortune showered favours beyond measure. |
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| Believed to have been written in the 1390s, Chaucer's short poem Fortune, is also inferred to directly reference Lancaster. |
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| Fortune favoured the fortunate when Martin Atkinson ignored a stonewall penalty. |
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| The Fortune Teller gazed his wondering green eye in the orb of clouded mist. Over looking their movements from above the starlet night. |
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| The album includes new single Loop De Li, Soldier of Fortune, which was cowritten with Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. |
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| A Solider of Fortune slam piece sought to devalue Gritz among his own jingoistic constituency. |
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| Oasis Dream and Jimmy Fortune tracked Irrawaddy in the early stages, as Elusive City pulled hard in behind. |
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| An MV San Diego warship museum has been constructed on Fortune Island to display and interpret many of the artifacts. |
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| Domtar, located in Rock Hill, is the only Fortune 500 company headquartered in South Carolina. |
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| Fortune is certainly frowning on Harriers as the flukiest of own goals and the hugely-contentious penalty testified on Saturday. |
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| We are pleased to offer our Fortune 500 customers the industry's first SSH server, SFTP server and Telnet server for HP Integrity servers. |
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| Over 70 per cent of the FTSE 100 are within London's metropolitan area, and 75 per cent of Fortune 500 companies have offices in London. |
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| The shiny brass trumpet that Pop bought was his golden ticket out of Poorville and onto the streets of the three F's Fame, Fortune and Freedom. |
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| Regular Wednesday Hump Day crediting will continue as usual during the Clover of Fortune casino bonus giveaway. |
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| Black EOE Journal polled hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies for its Best of the Best-Part 2 survey. |
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| Globe currently supports Los Angeles, Seawolf, S-80 and VA-class submarines as well as a variety of Fortune 500 companies worldwide. |
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| This was followed by small television parts in Sailor of Fortune and The Jack Benny Program. |
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| Light has now returned to his marketing consultancy, Arcature, where he advises a global Fortune 500 group of clients. |
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| In the eddy 1990s analysts were foretelling that each Fortune 500 company would have a terabyte under management in a few years. |
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| I wept for myself, but resigned my soul to the tyranny of Time and Circumstance, well weeting that Fortune is fair and constant to no man. |
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| French champion Christophe Soumillon has been booked to ride the former, runner-up at Haydock last time, while Jimmy Fortune partners Mr Klick. |
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| It is impossible for anyone below the Fortune 500 to get the necessary business credit lines to effectively compete. |
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| Already, half of all Fortune 100 discrete manufacturing companies rely on Oce Engineering Exec. |
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| Indeed, the Magic City has long been the location of choice for the Latin American headquarters of Fortune 500 companies. |
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| But we ballsed up Fame and Fortune, which was its first live airing and was supposed to be the highlight of the show for us. |
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| Linder has represented start-ups, early-stage, emerging growth, mid-stage and Fortune 500 companies such as NextEra Energy, Inc. |
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| Mark Johnston enhanced his fine record at this meeting as Drumfire, ridden by Jimmy Fortune, held Sweet Lightning by half a length in the Paul Goes The Extra Mile Stakes. |
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| The anthology was published by Fortune Press, in part a vanity publisher that did not pay its writers and expected them to buy a certain number of copies themselves. |
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| In particular, sales of our hoteling software have been strong, with a number of Fortune 500 companies purchasing it for use in their offices worldwide. |
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| Bennett didn't appear on CNBC, or kibitz with Maria Bartiromo, or speak at Fortune 500 conferences, or get himself profiled in the Wall Street Journal. |
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| Myra Rutledge, heiress to a Fortune 500 candy company, looked around her state-of-the-art kitchen, at the pots bubbling on the stove, at the table set for two. |
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| Stable jockey Jimmy Fortune has opted for Top Cop, but I'm not sure he will be at home on soft ground, so of the Balding pair Intransigent is much preferred. |
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| Lyndon will be sharing his advice on a new Sky show, based on his book Diary of a Fortune Hunter, based around 52 business lessons that he has learned. |
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| Jimmy Fortune dominated Goodwood's last evening meeting of the summer, completing a hat-trick on Life Of Riley, Sailing and Primo Valentino, writes Graham Dench. |
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| The End Result helps the Fortune 1000 improve the leadership skills of managers and supervisors by providing custom training programs and training products. |
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| Over 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies conduct business operations in metro Atlanta, and the region hosts offices of over 1,250 multinational corporations. |
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| Kieren Fallon set out to make the running on Gamut tracked by Massif Centrale and Bandari, with Jimmy Fortune holding Alkaased up at the rear of the five-runner field. |
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| Ihler, the IX Corps commander and Fortune, decided that the only hope of escape was through Le Havre and abandoned the plan to retire through Rouen. |
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| In 2009, Northeast Utilities, a Fortune 500 company and New England's largest energy utility, announced it would establish its corporate headquarters downtown. |
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| English occultist Dion Fortune was a major populiser of soft polytheism. |
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| The Fortune 1000 list includes SCANA, Sonoco Products and ScanSource. |
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| It is estimated that by using ClairMail's technology, Caneum can help Fortune 1000 customers cut time and costs associated with mobile user application access. |
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| A range of evidence of Roman religious beliefs among the people of Eboracum have been found including altars to Mars, Hercules, Jupiter and Fortune. |
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| The jade Fortune is to be clawed away for it, if you should lose it. |
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| Susan Howatch's 1984 novel The Wheel of Fortune is primarily set in the area surrounding the Gower Peninsula, which plays an important part in the plot of the novel. |
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| Allende, the author of numerous bestsellers such as The House of the Spirits and Daughter of Fortune, retells the story of the legendary hero Zorro. |
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| Mark Johnston enhanced his record at this meeting as Drumfire, under Jimmy Fortune, held Sweet Lightning by half a length in the Paul Goes The Extra Mile Stakes. |
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| But, without having to ask his mount too serious a question, Fortune stoked the winner up and brought him home to beat Sandglass by three-quarters of a length. |
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| That evening, the captain of Codrington was ordered to begin the evacuation and two hours later, Fortune signalled that it was probably now or never. |
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| Abbott was in his late sixties and looked like a retired Fortune 500 executive in a three-piece suit, complete with manicured nails and a Rolex watch. |
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| Jimmy Fortune may try to make all on Boonga Roogeta, but Presburg, Proud Chieftain, Communicator and Viewpoint will be packing up behind turning for home. |
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| Fortune conferred with Ihler and both agreed to retreat to Le Havre. |
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| Brian, York Brilliant Fortune After what must have been a tough week it was great to see Jimmy Fortune land the November Handicap on Charm School. |
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| That evening, the captain of the Codrington was ordered to begin the evacuation and two hours later, Fortune signalled that it was probably now or never. |
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| Roman general Scipio Africanus the Younger weighing, in a dream, a choice between frivolous Fortune and rocklike Constancy in pursuing his figure path. |
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| My friend Jennifer decided one day that she would tell my fortune using an ordinary pack of playing cards. |
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| The last time someone told my fortune they didn't say a word about living in another country so I discounted most of the things that they said. |
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| I know fortune cookies rarely tell your fortune, but when did they start telling you off? |
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| In Asia, there are people who can tell your fortune by just looking at your palm or face. |
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| After a session with the local witchdoctor who told our fortune, we sampled the wonderful hot springs nearby. |
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| You may want to save these though, since many believe that you can use them to tell your fortune. |
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| And after that was attended to, she drew up a chair to the rickety table, and told her fortune with an old deck of cards. |
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| In spite of these cataclysms, being a peripatetic of fortune had not diminished his craving for knowledge and science. |
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| What he does is simply a job requiring diligence, perseverance and a dash of good fortune. |
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| He is working the streets as hard as anyone, buoyed by a huge personal fortune. |
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| And she's locked in the fight of her life to keep her fairy-tale fortune her own. |
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| The more elaborate, animated works recall fun-house attractions such as coin-operated fortune tellers inside fake booths. |
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| The whole family fortune is lavished upon diadems and necklaces of true or false gems. They have no other wealth. |
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| His brief ten-minute TV appearance so far hasn't brought him instant fame and fortune. |
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| They are after the fantastic first prize we're offering this year which could set the winner on the road to fame and fortune. |
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| This final show told an overwhelming story of what people will put themselves through for fame and fortune. |
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| A Kingston comedian is dreaming of fame and fortune after winning a national talent competition. |
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| They are an adventurous bunch and many of them venture overseas to find fame and fortune. |
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| I have a slip of paper from a Chinese fortune cookie taped to my computer monitor. |
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| What about the case of someone who suddenly comes into good fortune, perhaps entirely by his or her own efforts? |
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| So one can say he tried to lie his way to fame and fortune, and got a much-deserved comeuppance. |
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| My fortune enabled me to live my life in comfort, but it also gave me too much time. |
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| She must certainly come to commiserate with the poor woman on having had such ill fortune for so long. |
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| The remains of his fortune were used to purchase a picket fence that extended in random directions across his property. |
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| It infuriates me that people cause so much mindless damage, which costs the car owners a small fortune. |
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| It works the first time, causing the person being conned to believe that the rest of the notes will be cleaned and thus yield a fortune. |
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| One of the most enduring images of early Arizona is the solitary prospector seeking his fortune in gold in the inhospitable Sonoran Desert. |
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| There will be the usual field day events such as bottle stall, wheel of fortune, goldfish, throw the dice, book stall etc. etc. |
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| If it is unlikely to make its founder a fortune, the venture at least fills a need among a certain group of professional women. |
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| Before vanishing in 1822, he left coded instructions detailing the secret location of a fortune in gold. |
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| Many a dealer spends a fortune on interior decoration, lighting and innovative display techniques. |
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| However, on this occasion, not even fortune could give Macdonwald the victory, because Macbeth held her in contempt and won the battle anyway. |
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| Through the insidious contrivance called inflation, they could effectively transfer a portion of the oil fortune into their coffers. |
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| It seems Larry will be out of town that day, which saves us a fortune in additional flame-retardant clothing, we guess. |
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| The good fortune continued this weekend with confirmation of a now irrefutable positive polling pattern. |
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| Still, happy and optimistic, they poured a ceremonial splash of rum on the car's floorboard for good fortune, and lurched away. |
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| Erratic players are punished for their disasters in addition to being rewarded for their fluky strokes of fortune. |
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| There was always the possibility of a change in personal or family fortune. |
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| As a postgrad student in Kentucky in the late 1960s, I was paid what seemed a small fortune to teach drama. |
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| From there, he became a chauffeur for a private estate, until his employer suffered a slump in fortune. |
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| Beckham is without doubt the most successful footballer of the age, having parlayed into a fortune a talent to kick a dead ball. |
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| A slice of fortune and a rasping forehand drive earns the Moroccan three break points. |
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| It not only was in the tabloids, I think it was in the fortune cookie I ate two weeks ago. |
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| But that comfort did not come in a fortune cookie and is not always stable and secure. |
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| She would scurry into her shop of Chinese delicacies and come out with my daily fortune cookie. |
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| I'm probably revealing my own shallowness, but doesn't that philosophy come from a fortune cookie? |
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| As for his worries about your being a fortune-hunter when there is no fortune, chalk that up to an artificial barrier he has thrown up. |
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| Successful predictions are more the result of good fortune than good fortune-telling. |
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| We identified the person in the photograph as Mary McCloskey, a young girl who sought her fortune in the California goldfields as a forty-niner. |
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| The following year saw thousands of forty-niners heading west to make their fortune. |
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| The Butterfield family was immensely wealthy, their fortune founded on the textile trade. |
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| She didn't usually care what her fortune cookies ever said but this was too freakily coincidental. |
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| He then used the family fortune to reconstruct much of the two-storey royal palace and the frescoes on its walls. |
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| Sometimes it seems like you may as well be gazing into a crystal ball, or going to see a fortune teller. |
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| Mary went to a fortune teller and after gazing into a crystal ball for some time she advised her. |
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| Eight years later I was earning a small fortune, buying my own flat and cultivating my first boyfriend. |
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| Meanwhile he is paying court to Isabelle over the weekend, hoping to carve out his own share of her family's fortune. |
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| The president is a riddle wrapped in an enigma inside a Chinese fortune cookie. |
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| Some hold that what makes any person fundamentally deserving of good or bad fortune is her level of virtue or moral merit. |
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| His paternal grandfather made a fortune in the States with a nostrum called Brandreth's Pills, which still exist. |
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| Having been out of the team for so long, he will not allow himself to rely on this change of fortune lasting. |
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| You'd wonder how such an insulting little squirt could amass such a fortune and control the mighty moguls of the motor racing business. |
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| To the left there was a wheel of fortune and some pool tables and in the far corner stood an upright piano. |
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| But then life intervened and he went off to Wales to seek fame and fortune as a bingo caller. |
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| Here, the cheerful houses of the calm suburbs were as intangible as the dreams of fortune and happiness were to the children of the ghetto. |
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| There was a wheel of fortune, cake stall, bottles stall while there was a door prize of a hamper. |
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| The wealth brought by his marriage and his canny eye for business between them enabled him to amass a substantial fortune. |
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| The canny investor knows that equities can deliver a fortune, the trick is to buy the right stocks at the right time and wait patiently. |
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| City could hardly believe their good fortune but with a priceless lead now to protect their steely determination was galvanised. |
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| Outrageous fortune always makes for a good story, while hard-earned success seems less worthy of comment. |
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| Bedaux had made his fortune as one of the greatest harnessers of mass labor since the Pharoahs. |
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| When Caravaggio painted the gypsy fortune tellers and card sharps of the city streets, other artists followed. |
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| Online stores have plus sizes in swimwear from designers that would cost you a fortune at a regular store. |
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| The plot is about a pair of cosmetic company heiresses who lose their family fortune. |
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| An Internet entrepreneur who struck it rich then lost it all has some advice on how to deal with the rise and fall of fortune. |
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| Great Immortal Huang, or Wong Tai Sin, is a celestial figure like the god of fortune for people in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. |
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| For Democrats, stunned by the turnaround in fortune, there is now a strong smell of blood in the political waters. |
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| Nevertheless, here's some general advice on making the most of your newfound fortune. |
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| Soon he's set into motion a series of devious plans to bump the orphans off and claim their fortune. |
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| A frequent theme in stories about New York is that of the out-of-towner's dream of crossing into Manhattan to discover fame and fortune. |
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| Jimmy was nearly disqualified under the rule that says you have to present an unlikely tale of outrageous fortune to claim a lottery prize. |
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| A fortuitous occurrence was something that happened by good fortune and not merely by chance or accident. |
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| The belief is that chancing upon a coin in the heap would usher in good fortune for the coming year. |
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| It opens in the same period and follows their subsequent changes in fortune. |
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| But perpetual dissimulation is painful, and he that is all fortune and no nature is an exquisite hireling. |
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| Like chop suey, however, fortune cookies were invented in North America, but are a fun way to end a meal. |
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| His motive for hoaxing the world was clearly not financial, for he turned down opportunities of making a vast fortune from his story. |
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| Sykes last night pledged his support for the Party and will spend a chunk of his fortune promoting their election campaign. |
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| It is a matter of good fortune that care staff are on hand to deal with difficult situations, rather than simply administering a chemical cosh. |
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| But due to vicissitude of fortune the Empire collapsed and left behind the legacy of the English language, on which the sun never sets. |
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| Thus, on the one hand, I'm a chirpy optimist, blessed with an uncommon degree of good fortune, who can never quite believe his luck. |
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| Do you think you can chisel me out of a fortune and then prance over here and try me on like a secondhand suit? |
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| The children were so busy enjoying themselves at the pool that the caricature, hoopla, wheel of fortune, and other stalls wore a deserted look. |
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| I saved a fortune by shovelling a load of cheap and nasty amphetamines up the hooters of a friend and myself. |
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| There were coffee houses which offered fortune tellers, palmists, physiognomists, job counselors and origami instructors. |
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| As his fortune expanded, he retained a love of horse racing, particularly National Hunt. |
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| Promises made in the heat of an election campaign all too often create hostages to fortune. |
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| The coalition which will form the new government will almost certainly have to give a number of hostages to fortune if it is to get there. |
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| Nobody who has been an MP for 12 years and a front-bencher for eight can be unaware of the risks involved in handing hostages to fortune. |
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| They might pass something that proves an electoral liability or makes a minister a hostage to fortune. |
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| The fortune teller swore up and down on her husband's grave that the star had not been there the night before. |
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| Through relentless flattery and sycophancy, he amassed a circle of influential friends and a considerable fortune. |
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| The designs used by the Dong people usually include the sun and the stars as they are symbols of good fortune. |
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| I am not a fortune teller, but a true clairvoyant, I will help you to find your direction in a way that will leave you empowered and positive. |
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| I had the good fortune to be outside under the stars when the sky cleared on Sunday. |
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| Beatrice's father made a fortune in business with his brother selling patent medicines. |
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| They are the heirs to an enormous soap fortune and are easily the worst idlers I have ever laid eyes upon. |
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| It is not everyday that you are given the fortune of acquainting yourself with an quintessence of perfection like me. |
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| Since the earliest times, man has gazed skyward, hoping to discern signs of good or ill fortune in the patterns of the stars. |
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| More than 50 years of constant US intervention have led to a plethora of ill fortune in the region. |
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| They usually employed various psychological techniques to cope with and often even thrive upon any ill fortune that came their way. |
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| Even though these items cost a fortune, they're bought because their owners don't want to be looked down on. |
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| There are few things I dislike more than feeling that my fate and fortune is in the hands of professional back-protectors. |
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| The idea of restoring the aircraft in the desert became more remote but good fortune smiled upon the museum. |
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| Peter's exercised the discipline and fitness that we have come to expect from them, but were also forced to rely on fortune. |
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| But the pair suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune with smiles and embraced each other warmly at the end of an epic contest. |
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| And just as the serpent had promised, good fortune smiled upon the woodcutter and his wife. |
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| We are trying that all the time and on Sunday fortune smiled little bit on us. |
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| As a result she had been kicked around by fortune as it pleased, painfully aware of its brute force. |
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| At its core, Le Cercle Rouge is all about fortune, about how it cannot be forced nor can it be avoided. |
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| Good fortune smiled however, when they added organic dairy products to their mix. |
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| Notwithstanding those difficulties the biggest problem facing any publisher is chance and fickle fortune. |
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| I knew I wouldn't get a chance to slip in before class but fortune smiled on me in the form of an open window. |
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| Desperate times call for desperate measures and he, too, has found a way to overcome his recent ill fortune. |
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| That piece of good fortune heralded something of a turnaround, as the Scots put together their best period to date. |
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| His eyes lingered on some points more than the rest and he smiled at his fortune. |
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| Sponsorship in a recession is not easy to come by, but he appears to be managing and this piece of good fortune will undoubtedly help. |
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| Some Vietnamese believe that spirits have the ability to bring good fortune and misfortune to human life. |
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| This is supposed to prevent good fortune from being swept out of the family. |
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| This is an astounding piece of good fortune for our sport, as we know that all publicity is good publicity. |
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| The men in the famous zebra stripes could scarcely believe their ill fortune when they were denied two penalties in the first ten minutes. |
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| It is clear that only good fortune prevented loss of life on the night of the fire. |
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| I have had the good fortune to see the piece several times a day for several weeks, as it was placed outside my office before the sale. |
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| Perhaps the biggest factors in maintaining the team's good fortune are work ethic and determination. |
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| All failure, however undeserved, however excused or dogged by ill fortune, is treated the same. |
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| Sure enough, both fortune and luck being with me, I won the piece for the starting price. |
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| All these problems were set against a backdrop of war and accentuated by ill fortune. |
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| Despite humble origins, her father amassed a small fortune buying, cultivating and reselling land. |
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| The president himself made a small fortune selling his failed oil company to business friends of his father. |
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| The five won their chance of fame and fortune after a series of open auditions as viewers watched their highs and lows. |
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| But it still amounts to a substantial fortune for him not to have a share of. |
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| A pensioner who wins the lottery or inherits an unexpected fortune could continue to claim the government's new flagship benefit. |
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| A young man who inherited a large fortune spent all of his time jetting around the world playing new and exotic golf courses. |
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| He eventually grows a conscience, to the point of sacrificing his fortune for every last human life he can save. |
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| The second Megan stepped inside, she knew that it must have cost Chris a fortune to get the reservations. |
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| I wouldn't have accepted if mum hadn't forked out a fortune to buy me this dress. |
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| We then spent a fortune buying all sorts of goodies from some of the shops in Glastonbury High Street. |
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| Well the rumourmongers claim a jealous belief that the playhouse costs a fortune to run and cannot be making any money. |
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| It does not cost a fortune to make and is even better value for money if you buy a large sack of potatoes. |
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| The huge raids cost a fortune, embarrassed the police and the tide of street dealers flowed back in. |
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| This call is costing me a fortune, so don't waste my time and money denying this. |
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| But, thankfully, we've now got room to lock away the teak garden furniture that we spent a fortune buying at the start of the summer. |
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| The whole system looked like a proper dog's dinner and it cost a fortune to set up. |
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| Officials also knew that upgrading the building to meet seismic standards would cost a fortune. |
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| While you can spend a fortune on buying and decorating your ideal dolls' home, you don't have to. |
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| It will not cost a fortune to buy, insurance is not needed, maintenance is minimal and a driving licence is not essential. |
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| Much of it seems like a cross between reading a Chinese fortune cookie and an Ann Landers column. |
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| But if fortune favours the brave, the racecourse and its manager deserve good luck, better weather and a successful festival. |
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| One of the smartest pieces of advice offered by the author of The Prince was that fortune favours the brave. |
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| But fortune favours the brave and Wanderers have been rewarded for their bold buying policy. |
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| It proved to be tin but their dreams of making their fortune on mining tin proved illusory. |
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| He inherited his wealth from his father, who made his fortune in manufacturing and selling cigars. |
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| Corzine made his fortune by acquiring and maintaining the vast majority of his net worth in Goldman Sachs. |
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| There were few who entered the dancehall business in the early 1900s with the intention of making their fortune from it. |
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| Originally, the employees tended to be young, single men bent on making their fortune quickly and then leaving. |
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| The evening must have cost a small fortune, judging by the amounts of food and entertainment and the notable size of the government entourage. |
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| Father had been fond of giving gifts, and Margaret knew it to be worth a small fortune, should she need it. |
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| Only she turned out to be working for this money lender, who reckons I owe him a small fortune in interest now. |
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| Should it happen that said uncle's middle initial was B, the information could be worth a small fortune. |
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| The sum is worth a small fortune in India, where it could feed and clothe a family for life. |
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| The chances are that it was in a gallery, produced by an art school graduate, and that it was worth a small fortune in the lucrative art market. |
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| When you mix men with guns and minerals worth a small fortune, inevitably smuggling, violence and general disorder result. |
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| Over the months the pile of money in my account builds up and soon I have a small fortune. |
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| She took her daughter out to see them and they admired the little girl as they told her fortune. |
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| To me it was a fortune that enabled me to buy a house outright. |
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| Big Green Blue are a fresh-faced group of teens possessing more than a smattering of talent and good fortune, who are about to test the waters of success. |
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| Much of the fortune of Dundee was founded on its jute mills and other textile industries, and its jute barons once competed with each other to build grand houses. |
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| I decide to take it as an omen, like a fortune cookie in a steak house. |
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| If I'm honest, I just wait for the fortune cookie at the end of the meal. |
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| So I crack open the fortune cookie and you know what it says? |
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| I then ate the fortune cookie, and felt much less than fortunate. |
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| He cracks open his fortune cookie and removes the slip of paper. |
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