Sentence examples for A breathtaking fall from inspiring English sources
Regardless of the details of Chevalier's accusations, Browne's is a breathtaking fall from grace.
"Nortel must be put on a sound financial footing once and for all," explained Mike Zafirovsky, its chief executive.It marks the end of a breathtaking fall.
That would be a breathtaking fall for a squad that less than three years ago was ranked fourth in the world by FIFA, the sport's worldwide governing body, and that advanced to the second round in the 1998 World Cup.
The story had all the hallmarks of a tale of urban drama: a historic high-rise; a breathtaking fall; an injured child curled up in a bed of soot that had cushioned her fall; and hardened rescuers who can still be shocked by the resilience of life.
The White Knight (Larry DiStasi) is a comic bicyclist and unicyclist; the Red Queen (Tony Hernandez) is an expert stilt walker; Humpty Dumpty (Doug Hara) takes a breathtaking fall; and Anthony Fleming III (with Mr. Hara and Mr. Hernandez) is one third of the acrobatic team that is the Caterpillar.
Certainly, it would be a breathtaking fall from grace for Caldbeck, a former managing director at Lightspeed Venture Partners whose earlier investments include BloomReach and GrubHub and who, in 2014, based on his track record, easily raised a $125 million debut fund with his friend, Jonathan Teo.
In a display of panache, when he lost 30 seconds to his nearest rival on a major climb, he regained the time with a breathtaking descent that showed no fear of falling again.
These losses transformed local housing declines into a global crisis and, along with the breathtaking fall in stock prices, have remained the primary engines of disaster.
TEHRAN — Iran's president admitted Tuesday that the American-led economic sanctions on the country were partly to blame for a breathtaking 40 percent fall in value of the Iranian currency, the rial, over the past week.
Ron Chimelis, MassLive.com: "Paterno's entire life, spanning his great success and also his breathtaking fall, screams out one message.
But it occurs to me that if I hadn't been sick, hadn't gotten the transplant, hadn't traveled to Minnesota, I wouldn't be in this cozy room with my favorite cousins and uncle, with a breathtaking view of freshly fallen snow on the ground and treetops.
