Sentence examples for downfall this from inspiring English sources

The downfall, this time, came at an extremely painful cost.

Bo Xilai's downfall this spring has also cast a sharper spotlight on the hidden wealth and power accumulated by the Communist Party's revolutionary families, and by the sons, daughters, wives and close relatives of the nation's high-ranking leaders.

Rae admits that Morton have a tough task to avoid relegation but believes that Shiels possesses the ability to restore the missing confidence he thinks has been their downfall this season.

One of their major downfalls this season has been their habit of taking lesser opponents lightly, as they did in losing to the Grizzlies at Madison Square Garden in December.

While this scene makes for the downfall of this movie, the real fault is in its plot.

"I thought this was going to be the downfall of this generation of sprinters," said an incredulous Ato Boldon, a former Olympic sprinter for Trinidad and Tobago, who was working as a broadcaster for NBC during the trials.

Norman said he felt putting was his biggest downfall this week.

Both banks, perennial rivals for the No. 1 position in many of Wall Street's most lucrative businesses, defended their companies after the striking downfall this week of two other venerable firms, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch.

This time, the task has been further complicated by turbulence stemming from the sensational murder case that led to the downfall this spring of Bo Xilai.As they grapple and manoeuvre through their rivalries, today's politicians are following well-worn tracks in the sands of Beidaihe.

Mr. Bo's downfall this spring, for instance, came after his former police chief in Chongqing told American diplomats that Mr. Bo's wife, Gu Kailai, had ordered the murder of Neil Heywood, a British businessman, in a dispute over the family's business interests.

"That's what's caused the downfall of this country since the end of the war".