Sentence examples similar to expected downfall from inspiring English sources

On Morocco's streets "people sat on mats, staring at the traffic like people who are expecting a downfall of volcanic ash that will bury them for centuries".

Hollywood executives, who declined to comment publicly, said they had expected his firm's downfall, given its finances, but not quite as quickly as it happened.

"A big wedding is coming to you soon" is a reference to the expected celebration of the downfall of Hussein's regime, Al Taee said.

Yet much of the flooding should be blamed on problems other than global warming.Large parts of Asia are often prone to flooding, but this year the rains have come earlier and more downfalls are expected in September.

"I don't think any of us expected the rapidity of his downfall," Millar says, "just the sheer speed and how hard he has fallen.

Belfast had been expected to join in Operation Downfall, but this was forestalled by the Japanese surrender on 15 August 1945.

According to Muratov, the strategy paper also characterized Yanukovych as "a person without morals and willpower whose downfall must be expected at any moment".

I expected that with Nixon's downfall I would get zero cooperation from my colleagues in the bureaucracy, but quite the opposite happened.

Action against Gen Guo had been expected for several months, following the downfall of two other senior military figures with whom he served.

Similarly, I expected Iraq's neighbors to support Saddam Hussein's downfall.

And it was before Coughlin secured his coaching future by guiding the team past the potential downfall that everyone — including the owners — might have expected.