hostage to fortune उदाहरण वाक्य

उदाहरण वाक्य

1. "As long as that doesn't change, OPEC will be a hostage to fortune ."
2. The mandate should have no deadline ( a hostage to fortune ), but nor should the Americans outstay their welcome.
3. "The president did not want to go into 1996 a hostage to fortune, " a senior administration official said.
4. The phrase " hostages to fortune " appears in the essay " Of Marriage and Single Life "  again the earliest known usage.
5. In 1930 she began writing again and " Hostages to Fortune " was published in 1933 ( reprinted in 2003 by Persephone Books ).
6. Others, offering hostages to fortune, speak of " the year of Africa, " even of an " African century ."
7. When Francis Bacon, four centuries ago, called children hostages to fortune, he went on to say they were " impediments to great enterprises ."
8. He has survived it without leaving too many hostages to fortune ( forcing senior army officers to support gays serving openly in the armed forces being an exception ).
9. "I never knew what the phrase ` hostage to fortune'meant until I had a child, " his father admitted a third of a century back.
10. But Mandela had given a number of hostages to fortune, insisting that his government would never betray its friends, and that nothing would be done without the widest consultations.