Sentence examples for demise down from inspiring English sources

She laughs at herself for having over-organised everything about her demise (down to pre-recording bedtime stories for her sons) and comforts herself that the sparsely furnished attic room she has selected to die in will be easily transferable back to a repository for "white-goods guarantees and school reports" afterwards.

Rumours put his demise down to eating unripe peaches, drinking too much sweet ale or even being dosed with poison from a toad.

However, the manner of England's sorry demise down under, when they were heavily beaten in all five Tests, led former players from England and Australia to question Cook's leadership.

Gordon Strachan begins by saying that he's had an excellent career, but puts his demise down to 'Chelsea syndrome', where the careers of players like Damien Duff, Scott Parker and Cole 'plateaued' when they went to Chelsea and it's taken some of them a few years to recover from their time there.

Cheng, for one, sent Wang a six-page witness account detailing his father's demise down to his last breath.

"Either companies will see the writing on the wall and realize that their business-as-usual approach is a fool's errand -- that'd be the optimistic outcome -- or they up doubling down on the business-as-usual approach and end up sowing the seeds of their own financial demise down the road".

The collapse of the market in 1974 hastened their demise, bringing down some of the most powerful houses, including the Ginestets and the Cruses.

On his visits to Pittsburgh, once the crucible of US steel production, Trump told audiences that the industry's demise was down to bad trade deals negotiated by incompetent bureaucrats.

While it was initially thought the birds were eaten into oblivion, it now seems likely their demise was down to a combination of factors, among them habitat destruction, predation and competition for resources by the rats, monkeys, goats and other animals that arrived with the sailors.

Agencies are re-inventing, re-working, re-engineering, re-emerging and not taking any talk of demise lying down.

Diesel is dying in Europe, destroyed by a combination of corporate skulduggery and political wishful thinking, and the only question now is, will its demise bring down some of the continent's most formidable players in the process.