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The head of al-Qaida has accused the US of overthrowing the former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, but also said he was responsible for his own downfall by for trying to appease Washington.

Imported malaria infections must be addressed to achieve malaria elimination. 1 The Global Malaria Eradication Program's failure to eliminate malaria in the 1950s and 1960s underlines the critical nature of this objective, as importation was blamed, in part, for its downfall by reintroducing transmission and spreading chloroquine resistance.

In 1809 he laid the basis for his own downfall by two measures that outraged the bureaucratic nobility: one required that holders of court titles perform actual service to the state; the other required that all officials must pass examinations in order to be promoted at various stages of their careers.

But a federal indictment unsealed on Friday accused two former vice presidents at the bank of hastening its downfall by selling fraudulent loans to a hotel developer in exchange for bribes.

"Downfall," by Peter J. Boyer, November 20 , 2006

His excesses brought his downfall by military coup Colombia's first in the 20th century.

For Mr. Cuomo, pursuing the matter, and potentially bringing about the governor's downfall by legal rather than electoral means, could open him up to accusations of political opportunism and abuse of power.

"We actually played quite well for long periods of the game but we contributed to our own downfall by pushing forward.

"Americans are portrayed as buffoonish, often causing their own downfall by arrogance and stupidity.

General Ne Win helped speed his own downfall, for example, by suddenly declaring much of the Burmese currency worthless and replacing it with bank notes in denominations divisible by his lucky number, nine.

The civil war there seems to be ending, and Somoza has postponed his downfall for a while by ordering his air force to bomb the barrios of his cities.