Sentence examples for might be felled from inspiring English sources

Even now the suggestion to a Russian that a tree might be felled to give light to a gloomy house can provoke an indignant rejoinder.

More than 2,000 trees had to be felled and burned.

And though left-leaning advocates had called for such changes for years, many have in fact been implemented by Republican governors among them Rick Perry in Texas, Chris Christie in New Jersey and Nathan Deal in Georgia.Against this backdrop, Barack Obama's criminal-justice and drugs record seems tepidly sensible; a decade or two ago he might have been felled by the soft-on-crime charge.

If Wilson had not been felled by a stroke, the United States might have joined the League of Nations and prevented World War II.

But, as nations which have been felled by crisis know all too well, size isn't the only determinant of economic might or resilience.

Many prestigious firms were felled.

About 40 trees were felled.

Debt-fuelled consumption has been felled.

But no, he was felled from behind.

He had been felled by a mosquito.

A lot of trees had been felled to build it.