Sentence examples similar to precipitated downfalls from inspiring English sources

Missteps after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks precipitated her downfall.

Tony Blair's opposition to an immediate ceasefire in the Lebanon war last summer precipitated his downfall.

The retreat from Russia, combined with Napoleon's reverses in Spain, precipitated his downfall.

Having denounced her assailant to her husband, she committed suicide and precipitated the downfall of a Roman dynasty.

What precipitated his downfall was the arrest of a judge accused of being in Mr Gayoom's pocket.

Things would change even more dramatically if renewed American action against Iraq finally precipitated the downfall of the regime.

With the help of the United States, they enforced a no-flight zone and bombed the regime's troops, which precipitated the downfall of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.

Hawit only succeeded Jeffrey Webb in May, after Webb was arrested as part of the US operation that threw Fifa spiralling into crisis and precipitated the downfall of Sepp Blatter.

This weekend, it will be 10 years since the comic opera coup which precipitated the downfall of Mikhail Gorbachev, the banning of the Soviet communist party and the dissolution of the USSR.

The trial of fallen politician Bo Xilai reached a dramatic peak before its third day closed on Saturday, when Bo faced down Wang Lijun, his former second-in-command, about the tale of murder and intrigue that precipitated his downfall.

When Clay Higgins was a sheriff's department spokesman in rural Louisiana, his rare candor precipitated his downfall, but not before it catapulted him to online fame and, more recently, a seat in the U.S. House.