Sentence examples for befallen that from inspiring English sources

COMPARED with Lucent's financial accounting restatements of $679 million and the problems that have befallen that company, the amount of shareholder equity lost in Indus's case seems inconsequential.

"By appeasing Mugabe and endorsing every fundamentally flawed election in Zimbabwe," she wrote, "you are complicit in the tyranny that has befallen that country".

The devastation wreaked on Haiti by Hurricane Matthew last fall was just the latest in a seemingly endless string of misfortunes that have befallen that country, which in March concluded a year-long interlude of caretaker governance by installing banana exporter Jovenel Moïse as its 58th president.

I decide not to ask what appalling accident has befallen that.

"Behold, it has befallen that the land has been deprived of the kingship by a few lawless men".

But he added: "It's difficult on a day like this in terms of the tragedy that has befallen that family for us to make comment on that, we obviously extend our condolences to the family in this desperate hour".

For this treatment to befall that group of Americans who, by their own lights, got the decade mostly right — to be so reviled and so vindicated — inflicted a kind of painful pleasure.

The title struck a resounding chord, and nakba (catastrophe) became the term Palestinians used for the cataclysm that befell them that year.

If so, it must befall that Death, whene'er he call, must call too soon".

By picturing himself as a reformer intent on overhauling a shabby school system, he has generally been able to elude the criticism that regularly befalls that system.

A Tanna taught: Great was the calamity that befell that day, for everything at which R. Eliezer cast his eyes was burned up.