Sentence examples for final downfall from inspiring English sources

The Anglo-Dutch War of 1665, which he had opposed, proved his final downfall.

Tepeu culture began about 600 and ended with the final downfall and abandonment of the Central Subregion about 900.

It took a 75-day siege and a naval battle in 1521 to effect the final downfall of the great Aztec city.

The final downfall of these sculptures – their arms already snapped off, their surfaces pitted by erosion and minor vandalism – represented the nadir of a long and complex process of civilisation.

To LaCroix, the final downfall of the Church came with the dismantling of the Mission Network in 1982.

The final downfall was letting him play with my phone on the way to school to get us out the door in the morning.

In the apocalyptic chaos of Hitler's downfall, the final days in the bunker and the dramatic suicides of Adolf and Eva, Braun's home movies, never widely known, became forgotten.

The poll tax was the definitive act of hubris that brought about her downfall; the final act, with the isolated tyrant betrayed by her defecting generals, was quite Shakespearean.

Lastly, Gatsby's final proceeding shows his downfall.

The final texts narrate her eventual downfall at the hands of what Grossman calls a "misogynistic hierarchy".

The final chapter deals with the downfall of the NoW, a story told many times over, not least in the Guardian, which revealed the paper's phone-hacking activities.