Sentence examples for managed to topple from inspiring English sources

But none has managed to topple the champion.

It would be a monumental surprise if George Mason managed to topple No. 1 OHIO STATE, the No. 1 overall seed.

Yet they still managed to topple Denver, 24-20, extheirng their winning streak to five games as they head into their bye week.

Nicholas W. Leeson, a trader for the British investment bank Barings, managed to topple his bank in 1995 as a result of his rogue trading.

And that helps explain why a relentlessly upbeat Mr. Bush managed to topple a popular -- and increasingly defensive -- Gov. Ann Richards in 1994.

In his meeting with the Turkish president, the senior administration official said, Mr. Biden acknowledged that there were fears in the Middle East about what would happen if the uprising in Syria managed to topple President Bashar al-Assad.

No. 2 Stanford, made relatively easy work of No. 4 Iowa State, thanks to 46 points from center Jayne Appel, but we can talk real parity if Tuesday night's No. 6 seeds, Arizona State and Purdue, can manage to topple either No. 1 UConn or No. 1A Oklahoma.

Former Wales fly-half and BBC pundit Jonathan Davies was onto something when he said it would be a "sad indictment of the game" if France manage to topple Ireland next Saturday.

There were audible gasps in the audience as Margot, having arrived at her estranged sister Pauline's house (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Baumbach's wife) for her marriage to a loveable n'er-do-well/ bumbler (Jack Black) -- manages to topple the wedding, a giant tree, her marriage, an affair and her fraught relationship with her lovely, devoted son whose wounds he has to lick himself.

I managed to avoid toppling over, but the chair was so low my knees were at a level with my shoulders, and I struggled lamely to sit up straight, like a man squirming in an ab-cruncher.

A month of emails and phone calls later, though, and I managed to convince Topple the Tyrants to let me come over to their sweet pad.