But, with the rise of monotheism, dominion over the elements was consolidated into a single God, and bad weather, like suffering and death, became one of those things which we brought down on ourselves through sin.
On a sortie into Limerick territory, Billy Dooley, one of three brothers in the Offaly forward line, was brought down on the 25-yard line and his free-taking brother Johnny, a gimlet-eyed sniper, stepped up to the sliotar.
The girl in green was sitting in the universal attitude of anguish, her head bent, the fingers of one hand spread along the hairline on her brow, the wrist brought down on the bridge of her nose.
The curtain has been brought down on the Blatter era.
The massive destruction the Nazis brought down on Germany created chaos in 1945.
The full force of the law will be brought down on you".
Cities that really deserve to have the hammer brought down on them?
That it had been brought down on us because our father had brought us up to be doctors and medics.
But this, in turn, brought down on their heads a storm of condemnation from around the world.
It's pretty simple – the phone is clamped at each end while a metal bar is brought down on its middle.
"I expect the full force of the law to be brought down on anyone involved in this kind of activity".
