But on Friday he found himself in a stunning fall from grace — in a courtroom in North Carolina, being read his rights.
HYDERABAD, India — SKS Microfinance, a once-admired lender to poor Indian women that has had a stunning fall from grace in the last year, said Wednesday that its executive chairman, Vikram K. Akula, would step down from his post.
The Stewart verdict signals a stunning fall from grace for one of the most successful women in American business.
It has been a stunning fall from grace.
Mr. Carrión's fortunes represent a stunning fall for someone who was viewed, for many years, as the Latino community's best hope to win citywide office, after Fernando Ferrer fell short in the mayoral races of 2001 and 2005.
It's a stunning fall for a man whom The New York Post once called the "King of Clubs".
The verdict caps a stunning fall for Silver, who as speaker of the state Assembly enjoyed immense political influence before his arrest in January.
Johnson's record-shattering performance in the 100 meters at the Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, in 1988, and his stunning fall was a watershed for the International Olympic Committee.
In that essay, Marc Hogan noted the cassette's stunning fall from prominence (8.6 million sold in 2004), but only as a preamble to declaring that a "netroots resurgence" is fueling a cassette "comeback".
To be sure, Chrysler's stunning fall stems largely from unusually harsh competition in the American market and from fumbles by Chrysler's American executives.
