Sentence examples for off the downfall from inspiring English sources

BEIJING — The wife and the mother of Neil Heywood, the British businessman whose mysterious death in China set off the downfall of a senior Communist Party official last year, have pressed for compensation over what the Chinese authorities had determined was a murder, according to people with knowledge of the case.

I sincerely hope this meme takes off like the Downfall meme did.

After derivatives set off the near-downfall of several prominent Wall Street firms during the financial crisis, Washington is now cracking down on the unregulated $600 trillion market.

Since a student-led demonstration last November set off protests that led to the downfall of the Communist Government, university students and educators have made far-reaching changes in the university system and curriculum, students, professors and administrators say.

The downfall tripped off in the dying days of Venezuela's late president Hugo Chavez continues to hit new lows each day.

An array of prizes and professional accolades among female professors has provided a powerful rebuttal to critics who suggested after the earlier report that women simply lacked the aptitude for science — most infamously, Lawrence H. Summers, whose remarks set off his downfall as the president of Harvard.

It's in German, but the ROFL versions are each recaptioned so that instead of the fall of the Third Reich, Hitler is freaking out about, say, being banned from Xbox Live or the vuvuzela racket at the World Cup or the news that the film's production company is trying to have all the "Downfall" parodies taken off YouTube for copyright reasons.

Less than two years later — perhaps with Mr. Wen's fate in mind — Mr. Wang fled to an American diplomatic outpost, begging for protection from Mr. Bo and setting off the events that produced his downfall.

I'll answer that with this YouTube clip, in which the effort to pull all the Downfall memes off YouTube is parodied by a Downfall meme on YouTube.

This was the accident that set off Tiger Woods' downfall in 2010.

But the culture of cool that this scene propagated spawned a hubris that took over Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and eventually kicked off its downfall as people flocked to the borough faster than it could handle.