Sentence examples for precipitous end from inspiring English sources

In the early nineties, the collapse of the Soviet Union brought a precipitous end to Cuba's subsidies, and the economy imploded.

(Is it an accident that two songs include Christmas imagery?) Mr. Merritt sang one of these, the Brian Wilsonesque ballad "I Don't Know What to Say," with deadpan glumness, right up to the song's precipitous end.

And if his demise didn't bring a precipitous end to his network of associates I deemed the boys' club, it would certainly spell change: His blend of benevolence and tyranny was unparalleled in his associates.

At a time when Republican presidential contenders have been portraying the Democratic Party as the face of weakness in a dangerous world, Democrats are wary of supporting a bill that could be portrayed as cutting off money for the troops or forcing a precipitous end to the conflict.

The operon model of Jacob and Monod marked thus the precipitous end of the simple, informational concept of the molecular gene.

I had always been told I took after her: I coveted her beauty and glamor but not the precipitous ending of decades of creative work, the years of mental hospitals, shock treatment and bedridden sadness.

But when I followed the lower ridges, trying to reduce my elevation, I reached sickeningly precipitous dead ends.

When Ms. Wood breaks her hip in a fall, it begins a precipitous decline that ends with her death.

Recently states seem less prone to precipitous swings from one end of the political spectrum to the other.

Rocco Landesman, the president of Jujamcyn Theaters and a producer of "Caroline," said the show's advance sales took a precipitous drop at the end of August.

And Japan's precipitous decline since the end of the 1980s, when the land under the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was worth as much as the whole of California, is reason alone to question the "Sino-euphoria" generated by China's seeming inexorable rise.