Sentence examples for fall devolves from inspiring English sources

To depict the decay and destruction of the Pruitt-Igoe housing complex, in St . Louis the composer writes a monstrous neo-Baroque moto perpetuo, which, as the buildings fall, devolves into nothing more than descending scales.

Then there is Niagara Falls, before it devolved into a honeymoon destination.

The present Constitution allows for a measure of decentralized administration but falls short of devolving any real authority.

What's now accepted as "discourse" has devolved horribly to fall below the least common denominator.

There were two terrible crises in the Judge's life: The first came, many years ago, when his youngest daughter, Abby, was killed by a hit and run driver, and he fell into an alcoholic depression; the second came a decade ago when he was nominated to the Supreme Court and his confirmation hearings devolved into a humiliating fall from grace.

Lieutenant Lander was among those killed in the fall of the mainmast, and command devolved to the third lieutenant, the uninjured Lieutenant Robert Cathcart.

A single entity — a couple — devolves into a pared, shared falling away.

The government tells us that if the regime falls the country could devolve into sectarian chaos.

The risk of tax revenue falling short is being devolved too.

By fall of that year the conflict had begun devolving, and it is now a bitter civil war with increasingly sectarian overtones.

Proposals for the full devolution of unemployment support fall well short of what was promised, by devolving only a section of the current support network and leaving important levers in the hands of UK ministers.