Sentence examples for befallen from inspiring English sources

Walsh is probably wary of the fate that has befallen many of his better-credentialed predecessors, so immediately turned his attentions to next week's clash with Collingwood.

"I was trying to move forward with my life," the 55-year-old told the Observer from Kent, "until I found myself caught up in the nightmare scenario that has befallen Cyprus".

The most visible feature of the election in rural Norfolk are the enormous Ukip signs in local squires' fields – and the fate that has befallen them.

Are there tragedies involving mass death and displacement that have befallen any other people in history he finds equally amusing?

Their rulers are more smug than ever, as is the Arabs' eternal enemy and political counterpoint, Israel, secure and prosperous as never before.And this is not to mention the cost in blood of the Arab revolts, let alone the utter calamity that has befallen Syria's 23m people, and increasingly many of their neighbours.

The catastrophe that has befallen Britain's former third party is also part of a broader electoral fragmentation, which has made voting for fringe outfits less pointless.

The tragedies that have befallen the country both before and since that time are largely the result of its intransigent one-party state.

A serious illness that has recently befallen Iraq's mainly ceremonial president, Jalal Talabani, a Kurd who has sometimes acted effectively as a mediator above the sectarian fray, has further jangled Iraqi nerves.Sunni grievances go deep.

This unflattering fate has befallen 900 of the 4,500 participating companies.The exposure has not gone unnoticed.

Yet in the speeches that followed there was no disguising the calamity that has befallen the group.The speakers praised the turnout.

Some thought that opening up too quickly could land the country in much the same sort of trouble that had recently befallen the capitalists in South-East Asia. South-East Asia