Sentence examples similar to cause to befall from inspiring English sources

If the economy were to go into a deep slump, causing massive unemployment, or if some catastrophe were to befall the country that seriously undermined the party's legitimacy, the internet could play a dramatic and unpredictable role.

Witnesses told how the crowding caused people to suffocate and eventually trample one another in the worst disaster to befall the annual pilgrimage in 25 years.

Others would claim that woe was sure to befall such a disparate currency union sooner or later: if not Greece, then some other weak member of the club would have been the cause.

In the latest violence-related controversy to befall the league, the Minnesota Vikings running back was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday, on a charge of causing injury to a child.

It is not a fate likely to befall Pan Hejun.

We cannot permit any more harm to befall them.

We wouldn't want the same fate to befall Jakwob.

"God spared him the tragedy to befall New York City.

It is but one of many setbacks to befall Cran.

I know of no major disaster to befall her patients.

Is this the fate that is going to befall Terry Gilliam?