Of course they may fall and probably will fall, but in those failures, great lessons are learned.
More autocratic regimes may fall and be replaced with democratic rule.
There are murmurs that his government may fall and that he may be replaced by a more decisive yet more conciliatory figure.
Whatever the reasons for the distribution of birthdays, the fact that it is not uniform means that there is less randomness in when a birthday may fall and hence the chance of a shared birthday goes up.
Common to them all is the idiosyncratic, the particular and the singular, and that all are part of the same struggle to keep open our path of access to the world, so that our protections against it may fall and its individual character, its here and now, its you and I, may emerge and become salient.
The Assad regime may fall.
As before, none of this may last.
On the lower reaches, flooding may last four months.
Unemployment will shoot up, wages may fall.
Something of it may last.
A bottle of Cognac may last five years.
