Sentence examples for a spectacular downfall from inspiring English sources
Like countless others in Ireland, O'Donnell has suffered a spectacular downfall as a result of his property dealings.
The child grows up to be a sternly devout monk, Ambrosio (Mr. Cassel), whose legendary piety attracts followers, both innocent and not, and leads to a spectacular downfall that explains Coleridge's blistering condemnation.
And many of the proceeds end up in the pockets of officials.This cronyism and profligacy leads critics to liken China to other fast-growing economies that subsequently suffered a spectacular downfall.
My personal favorite in my book is Ernie Conrick's story, "Get Thee Behind Me Satan," which elicits a spectacular downfall from the wages of sin that even Sookie Stackhouse couldn't imagine.
It was a spectacular fall day.
His spectacular downfall followed a strange murder case in which his wife was found guilty of poisoning a British businessman.
But they worry even more that further steps toward "de-Maoification" might prove dangerously divisive within a party already shaken by Mr Bo's spectacular downfall amid allegations of corruption and a murder cover-up.In his 100-minute address, Mr Hu warned that corruption could cause "the collapse of the party and the fall of the state".
Madoff's spectacular downfall has sparked a cottage industry of journalists trying to fathom his psychopathology.
To him, his spectacular downfall seemed like an inexplicable punishment from the God he had followed so long and so devoutly.Until Enron started to unravel, with the full extent of its creative accounting slowly becoming known, Mr Lay's life had been a model of the American dream of rising from rags to riches on the strength of merit and hard work.
The spectacular downfall of the president's daughter was triggered by a high-stakes power struggle over who will succeed her ageing father – a question Sunday's election puts on ice but does not resolve.
This, coupled with his undiagnosed schizophrenia, would lead to his spectacular downfall.
