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Example sentences for: fortune

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Friendships, position, fortune, everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by the breath of my mouth, perhaps forever."
DC just shelled out a fortune for a new MCI stadium downtown, and a new Redskins stadium, and every idiotic newsman and woman is required to nod knowingly when the sports guy makes some obscure reference to some impenetrable football play, and anyone like me who finds the entire exercise faintly ridiculous is regarded as unpatriotic and unmanly.
Other explanations: The New York Times cited hazy flying conditions , James Fallows explained the of the flight in Slate , the New York Post reported that Kennedy had been obliged to schedule the Vineyard landing by his wife , and Fortune says that Wall Street is blaming Morgan Stanley for making JFK Jr.'s sister-in-law work late.
As the Democratic Party claims to speak for the little guy while dunning Fortune 500 companies, so the Braves hold themselves out as a modest, small-market underdog.
Charles II never saw the palace on which he lavished so much money (the royal coffers expended £57,000, a fortune at the time), but he created the foundation of what we see today, with its amazing ornamental plaster work and carved wood paneling.