Sentence examples for a startling fall from inspiring English sources

It was a startling fall.

For Mr. Cavallo, who last month was prohibited by judicial decree from leaving Argentina, the imprisonment order caps a startling fall from grace.

Relegation is a startling fall for a club who have reached the Championship playoff final twice in the past decade but having lost 22 of 43 league games prior to kick-off, survival always seemed an unlikely outcome.

The money may be small beer for a man like Kwok – among the world's richest tycoons – but it has triggered a startling fall from grace for Hui, a former chief secretary of the local government and a bona fide member of the Hong Kong's great and good.

Rebel groups that had been armed by Turkey will now have to prove themselves worthy of entry into the safe zone – a startling fall from grace, underscored by the silence of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in recent months, as the end drew near for Aleppo.

Hollywood A-lister Johnny Depp has delivered a startling fall-from-grace character portrait in the final act of the legal/biosecurity thriller nobody expected: one part intrepid dog movie and two parts international relations drama, like The International by way of Beverly Hills Chihuahua, with a dash of Midnight Express thrown in.

In a February report Henry Blodget of Merrill Lynch predicted that Microsoft's compound earnings growth from 2000 to 2005 could fall below 10%, a startling drop from the 35% growth rates of the 1990s.

In a February report Merrill Lynch 's Henry Blodget Henry Blodget predicted that Microsoft's compound earnings growth from 2000 to 2005 could fall below 10%, a startling drop from the 35% growth rates of the 1990s.

But the first four episodes this fall have been contrived and dull -- a startling tumble from the show's gripping, sophisticated heights.

Like many people here, the mayor, Patrick McCrory, is flabbergasted by the startling fall of Bank of America and the city's other banking giant, the Wachovia Corporation.

He will remind Obama that on top of the problems with AIG, Citigroup and rising domestic unemployment, there's Eastern Europe's growing debt problem, China's startling fall in exports, growing unrest in Russia, etc. Privately, Brown's supporters hope that some of Obama's gloss will rub off on the unpopular prime minister.