Sentence examples for downfall of a third from inspiring English sources
It sometimes seems to be a play set in a revolving door, as one faction giddily spins through to expel another faction, who are plotting the downfall of a third faction, who have designs on a fourth..
Violent right-wing extremism in Germany has surged to its highest level since the downfall of the Third Reich, with a record number of attacks against asylum seekers and their supporters.
It would not be the first time an emissions reduction plan would have contributed to the downfall of a Labor prime minister.
Baldwin returned to office Nov. 4, 1924, following the downfall of the first Labour prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald.
She quickly followed up with a caveat, as if anticipating any potential contortion of her relatively uncontroversial sentiment (the downfall of the first principal of Khalil Gibran started with comments attributed to her in an interview with The New York Post).
The French sense of national humiliation, particularly acute within the army, had lasting repercussions on French public opinion and contributed along with later events in Algeria to the downfall of the Fourth Republic in 1958.
The novel shows Cromwell's grief at the downfall of his first patron, Cardinal Wolsey.
What has followed the downfall of a tyrant — a downfall encouraged by NATO air strikes — is the tyranny of a dangerous and pervasive instability.
In a piquant twist, Ms Bryce's son-in-law, Bill Shorten, played a pivotal role in the downfall of Australia's first female leader.
(In conjunction with that post he achieved international notoriety when in 1924 the London press published a letter, allegedly written by him, instructing British communists to conduct subversive activities. The publication of the letter was considered to be the cause of the downfall of Britain's first Labour government).
