Sentence examples for bloody downfall from inspiring English sources
LIKE many Russians who witnessed the bloody downfall of the czar and proclamation of a Marxist state in 1917, Alexander Rodchenko believed the rhetoric of a socialist paradise to come.
The dismissals have inspired open talk here of the resemblance between the ruling court of Mr. Milosevic, his wife and their two wealthy children, Marko and Marija, and that of the Ceausescu family in Romania, which was dominated by a husband-and-wife team and collapsed in a bloody downfall in 1989.
The book is about Thomas Cromwell, an adviser to King Henry VIII, and charts the bloody downfall of Anne Boleyn.
Previous winners of the prize have included Hilary Mantel, whose 2012 winner Bringing up the Bodies, was about Thomas Cromwell, an adviser to King Henry VIII, and charted the bloody downfall of Anne Boleyn.
These moves could create conditions for the downfall of this bloody despot and not leave us twiddling our thumbs in the hopes that rumors of Saddam's deteriorating health prove true.
But Iraq's Palestinians, who numbered about 60,000 in 2003, faced bloody reprisals at the hands of Shiite militias after Mr. Hussein's downfall.
A series of bloody clashes between the provisional government formed by Ebert after the downfall of the monarchy and the extreme radicals culminated in the January 1919 putsch in which Liebknecht resorted to force, a tactic both he and his father had strongly opposed.
The bloody and protracted war in Vietnam, which had destroyed the administration of Lyndon Johnson and contributed to Richard Nixon's downfall, ended with a communist victory.
JERUSALEM — As Israelis watch the bloody confrontation between the Syrian people and the government of President Bashar al-Assad, they are torn by two sentiments: The downfall of Mr. Assad would deal a major blow to Iran and so would be welcome.
