Sentence examples for contributed to the downfall from inspiring English sources

Many factors contributed to the downfall, according to people involved with the orchestra.

Some archaeologists have proposed that colder weather contributed to the downfall.

To be sure, their compulsive secretiveness and paranoia contributed to the downfall of the Nixon administration, precisely as Dallek suggests.

Television, and later the advent of VCRs, and eventually the Internet, contributed to the downfall of drive-ins.

It contributed to the downfall of MF Global, the financial firm that went into bankruptcy last week.

Mr. Hayward also pledged to fix the safety problems that contributed to the downfall of his predecessor.

Cardew intended this piece to contribute to the downfall of capitalist imperialism.

In Morley and Outwood its vote share rose by 13%, contributing to the downfall of Ed Balls, the Labour shadow chancellor.

Such strains in British politics are nothing new, and deep divisions over Europe have afflicted the Conservative Party on and off for a quarter of a century, contributing to the downfall of the party's two last prime ministers.

In 1976, she successfully took on a tax system that legally charged some taxpayers more than 100% of their income, writing an adult fairytale called Pomperipossa In The World Of Money, and thus contributing to the downfall of the Social Democrat government later that year.

Mackey blamed unreasonable demands by the workers' union for contributing to the downfall of the co-op.