"As long as that doesn't change, OPEC will be a hostage to fortune ."
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The mandate should have no deadline ( a hostage to fortune ), but nor should the Americans outstay their welcome.
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"The president did not want to go into 1996 a hostage to fortune, " a senior administration official said.
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The phrase " hostages to fortune " appears in the essay " Of Marriage and Single Life " again the earliest known usage.
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In 1930 she began writing again and " Hostages to Fortune " was published in 1933 ( reprinted in 2003 by Persephone Books ).
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Others, offering hostages to fortune, speak of " the year of Africa, " even of an " African century ."
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When Francis Bacon, four centuries ago, called children hostages to fortune, he went on to say they were " impediments to great enterprises ."
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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 ).
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"I never knew what the phrase ` hostage to fortune'meant until I had a child, " his father admitted a third of a century back.
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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.
