Sentence examples for empire tumbled from inspiring English sources
FTSE 100 gas giant BG Group has distressed investors by issuing its fourth profits warning in less than 18 months Shares in the exploration arm of the former British Gas empire tumbled by 15 per cent, wiping more than £6 billion off its market value, after a set of announcements chief executive Chris Finlayson described as "very disappointing".
Do they hear the stones working themselves loose, the temples and houses and courts beginning to crumble?... Closing his book Lucien hears the thrilling crash as the bloated empire tumbles down.
No fiction could beat the appeal of daily newspapers and TV news bulletins with their relentless stories of financial empires tumbling down, well-known magnates biting the dust, powerful political parties crumbling, and mighty politicians of all stripes standing accused of corruption and complicity with organized crime.
"Before his empire came tumbling down," said the person who said he knows the family, "he was giving more and more of it away".
Turkey, which does not want to let Syria's woes give the region's Kurds a raison d'être to press their claims for statehood, would clearly feel threatened if the nation states carved out of the Arabian deserts in the wake of the Ottoman empire suddenly came tumbling down.
From the demise of ancient Greece to the fall of the Roman Empire, governments and societies have tumbled.
In the late 1920s Klan membership tumbled, klaverns closed and the Invisible Empire settled into the dustbin of history, Pegram says, while the pluralism it had railed against marched inexorably onward.
As the sun set, the lights honoring the Twin Towers were lighted, along with those of the Empire State Building, and a flock of pigeons tumbled skyward from the roof of a nearby tenement (a happy coincidence).
In economic news, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Empire State Index, a reading on business activity in the state, tumbled more than expected.
The descriptions tumbled out.
