7 sentences with “fortunes”

The Dutch invented both formalised currency exchange and the stock market, leading to enormous fortunes for the merchants there.

In the autumn of 1915, as Russia's fortunes in the war began to deteriorate, Nikolai II left for the front to personally command the Russian army.

Decades after the war, the French received an unexpected boost to their fortunes thanks to the intervention of one of France's own future patrons: Joan of Arc.

While most of that wealth went to enrich current Russian elites (along with some of Putin's personal friends, who made fortunes in state-linked businesses), it also served as a source of pride for many Russians who saw little direct benefit.

Savimbi's fortunes changed for the better in 1985, when the U.S. Congress rectified its position on Angola. The Reagan administration, in early 1986, sent him what has been estimated at $15 million in military equipment, including hand-operated Stinger anti-aircraft shells.

Especially in times of economic crisis, many otherwise "ordinary" Germans looked to political extremists for possible solutions; to cite the most important example, the electoral fortunes of the Nazi party rose and fell in an inverse relationship to the health of the German economy.

Many of the beneficiaries of the new wealth of the 16th and 17th centuries were not nobles but wealthy city merchants, especially in places like the Dutch Republic and, later, England, men who amassed enormous fortunes but who did not fit neatly into the existing power structure of landed nobles, the church and the common people.