Sentence examples for over the downfall from inspiring English sources

This year Junior is presiding over the downfall of the Reds.

Although he grieved over the downfall of Constantinople and the decline of the Byzantine Empire, he admired Mehmed and provided a nonpartisan and generally accurate history of the Turkish invasion.

Frank Rich's article in which he gloats over the downfall of William Bennett is a liberal version of the same blinded-by-rage impulse that seemed to impair Mr. Bennett.

The Germans' vague hopes that the Allies would shrink from such costly tasks or that the "unnatural" coalition of Western capitalism and Soviet Communism would break up before achieving victory were disappointed, so Hitler, in accordance with his dictum that "Germany shall either be a world power or not be at all," consciously resolved to preside over the downfall of the German nation.

It is basic to Poussin's view of life that, as Richard Verdi, professor of art history at Birmingham University, points out in the Edinburgh catalogue, "the world does not pause over the downfall of one man". Over and over again, between 1648 and 1651, Poussin returned to this theme but never more nobly than in the two Phocion paintings.

Raw wounds over the downfall of Lady Thatcher as prime minister nearly a quarter of a century ago were reopened in the House of Lords when one of her most loyal disciples, Lord Tebbit, lamented the way in which she was overthrown by "her friends".

So many feel that Sarnoff is instrumental in the city's over-development and the downfall of Coconut Grove.

The rhythmic, rhyming slogans that were chanted by thousands over and over were: "The people want the downfall of the regime" or "Collapse, collapse Hosni Mubarak," or simply "Get out".

Mal Brough, the special minister of state, is under intense political pressure over his role in the downfall of the former parliamentary speaker Peter Slipper.

It was forced to cancel its main project, a turboprop passenger plane called the N-250 (pictured), a pet project of President Suharto and his technology minister, B.J. Habibie, who later took over the presidency on Suharto's downfall.

The man who said that, Sayed Farqad Al-Qiswini, is president of the theological college that took over the mosque after Mr. Hussein's downfall, stripping the marble entranceways of plaques that had reminded the dangerously absent-minded or suicidally irreverent that they were stepping into a place of worship not of God alone, but of Mr. Hussein.