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You are very fortunate that you have such friends.
He is fortunate having such a good wife.
You were fortunate to be here.
That we met in Paris was a fortunate accident.
Japanese people are fortunate to live in a land with natural hot springs.
I was fortunate to make his acquaintance.
He was fortunate to find the book he had lost.
He may well be said to have been a fortunate man.
He was fortunate to pass the exam.
She was fortunate to pass the exam.
Let others wage wars, you, fortunate Austria, marry.
That's fortunate.
The driver was so fortunate as to escape death.
You are fortunate to have such loving parents.
It was fortunate that he was taken to a nearby hospital right away after the accident.
I feel fortunate to have known you.
We're very fortunate.
It was a very fortunate meeting.
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You traveled from your sparkling lovely paradise in Ootah to tell ridiculous stories to people less fortunate to make fun of them!
Now the Notary's seal, gentlemen, and you are the fortunate new owners.
Perhaps it's rather fortunate, that your little secret only came into the hands of a man like me.
On the other hand, perhaps it's fortunate.
We are all very fortunate to be alive.
Those who died were fortunate.
We're very fortunate the young man is so sympathetic toward music.
In that respect you are very fortunate.
You're fortunate not to be paying for this with your head.
We feared an acid attack, there was such a one in Florence recently. How very fortunate.
Not being so fortunate as to have my harp at hand, I'll turn on the radio.
Children, you may as well learn now that you must share what you have. with others not as fortunate as yourselves.
Isn't it fortunate to have two eligible young men coming to the neighborhood?
That's why girls who have both are doubly fortunate.
You're fortunate the Theater Gill isn't putting this on.
I really only carry them for the benefit of the less fortunate.
Sir, let me remind you that China is in a state of civil war and we will be fortunate if we arrive in Shanghai at all.
Well, it seems I have been fortunate to find a hostage important enough to ensure the return of my officer.
You are very fortunate in having Captain Harvey for a protector, as I have promised to return him alive.
Fortunate coincidence.
On a night like this, anything might happen. if I'm fortunate.
Well, Lieutenant, you are fortunate. very. fortunate.
Fortunate one for us, though.
It was fortunate for you that I was here to save you.
I hardly consider it fortunate to be bought by anyone by the name of Bishop.
That much is fortunate.
Not everyone is so fortunate.
It was very fortunate for him that you came along.
Fortunate.
Tell me. You are so fortunate here.
THAT'S FORTUNATE.
Now that she's gone I wanna tell you. you're mighty fortunate I just don't tear you to pieces.
How fortunate I'm here.
And that fortunate young man.
Fortunate, indeed.
And once again, brothers and sisters, we're going to share our pleasure. with some neighbors less fortunate than ourselves.
Here, the fortunate ones, through money or influence or luck might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon. And from Lisbon to the New World.
So far you have been fortunate in eluding us.
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Free-market thinking evolved from Anglo-Saxon theorists (many from Scotland), who migrated and colonized territories, allowing fortunate individuals to assume that there were no limits to consumption.
And it is doubtful that we really care enough about others, or give enough to the less fortunate.
In parts of New Jersey, many people fortunate enough still to have a house are cut off by rivers of raw sewage lapping at their doors.
PRINCETON - It may, in the end, turn out to be fortunate that a handful of people in developed countries - four in the United States and one in Spain - have contracted Ebola.
Unless we are extraordinarily fortunate and learn that climatologists have overlooked some enormously important channels of carbon sequestration, the models predicting global warming will still be grimly accurate in 2009.
China is fortunate to have the freedom to follow its own views.
I feel extremely fortunate and honored that the start of my formal education coincided with Mandela's re-emergence in African politics.
But we were fortunate in that Nuremberg was not really an option for us.
AMSTERDAM - Western Europe's small democracies have, on the whole, been exceptionally fortunate.
Even those fortunate not to fall into the trap of America's vast prison system often end up unemployed and even unemployable, without the skills needed to obtain and keep a decent job.
We do not have the right to decide that we have reached a sufficient level of scientific progress, because we cannot consult future generations--and we are fortunate that our predecessors could not consult us.
This stands as an example that the world should emulate - one of shared rights and responsibilities, including the obligation to help the less fortunate.
So put aside the fact that these diseases are infectious and can easily spread, or the idea that the fortunate bear some moral responsibility for the welfare of the poor and sick, and merely consider the economic consequences of the plagues of transition.
Much of the world looks at the US and other rich countries with resentment, feeling that they don't keep their commitments to help less fortunate countries.
WASHINGTON, DC - It is graduation season in many countries, a time when classes of bright and fortunate young people don their caps and gowns, receive their diplomas, and hear advice from their elders.
This is a fortunate coincidence, because shale-gas production would probably make it politically easier to phase out Poland's economically and environmentally irrational subsidies to local coal production (and consumption).
Sitting on the sidelines, emerging-market economies in general, and the so-called BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) in particular, may feel fortunate to be spared this financial maelstrom.
It also provides social insurance by taxing the prosperous and redistributing benefits to the less fortunate.
He said we were fortunate to live in Kenya.
The government is fortunate to have my lawyer friend's faith in the legal system, but now it must earn ordinary citizens' trust by enacting reforms.
The meeting's timing is fortunate, because a number of critical Asian issues are coming to a boil.
Some will say that Baltic and Southeast European countries were fortunate that responsible Swedish and Austrian banks, rather than their toxic US and British counterparts, had entered their markets.
But Europe cannot build up its own agriculture to the detriment of the less fortunate.
In Eastern Europe, the EU choice will no doubt be well received by the fortunate five.
The less fortunate classes are docile, content to accept their subservient roles and satisfied with the social welfare, no matter how skimpy, provided by their betters.
It is thus also a challenge to those of us living in more fortunate circumstances.
It shows clearly that the desire for political choice is not confined to a few fortunate countries, mostly in the Western world.
But in this matter as well, the winner gets to judge who was the aggressor, so it is fortunate that Hitler did not prevail.
One useful consequence is that wealthy countries' low levels of assistance to those less fortunate has gained wider attention.