While others survived through good fortune, Derfel survived "by his strength alone".

I'm not on DLA now but that's through change and relative good fortune rather than a lack of character flaws.

In short, in the past as in the present, both through fortune and also through choice, the experience of old age could differ sharply.

The N.F.L. has remained the country's predominant sports league through great planning and fortune.

Upon her death the property was bought by Matthew Lath, a man who had risen from humble origins through hard work and good fortune.

It was only through good fortune that this cowardly attack did not kill Wesley.

Through some fancy driving and good fortune, Alex manages to cause the destruction of the hostile jeeps.

He worked his way up by dint of hard labor and through much ill fortune.

And so I learned; and by no virtue nor prowess, but simply through good fortune and constitution.

Through good and ill fortune alike she has never lost sight of that quest or forgotten the ideals which gave her strength.