Sentence examples for source of downfall from inspiring English sources

The attendant tension is that Ryan's own swaggering personality is still regarded as a potential source of "downfall" by old-school Jets employees — concerns the venerated Dungy may have jogged when he responded to Ryan's prolific "Hard Knocks" profanities by declaring, "I wouldn't hire someone like that".

Great Britain's inexcusable inability to keep their heads was a major source of their downfall on a disastrous finals day in the inaugural Olympic women's rugby sevens tournament won by Australia.

A lot the negative reviews (including mine) harped on how it did or didn't treat Mercury's bisexuality and eventual AIDS diagnosis, with my own biggest gripe being how it essentially turned Freddie's bisexuality (and wanton partying) into the source of his downfall.

The source of Hoffman's downfall, the movie suggests, was his own willful naivete.

Pity he was always also destined to provide the source of his own downfall.

One of the evidence of trade in Lothal is the discovery of typical Persian gulf seals, a circular button seal While the wider debate over the end of Indus civilisation continues, archaeological evidence gathered by the ASI appears to point to natural catastrophes, specifically floods and storms as the source of Lothal's downfall.

Word has it that the source of both men's downfall was the same betrayal by a former employee.

According to sources, the downfall of Plautianus was largely due to suspicion of Severus' son Caracalla, who was later murdered and replaced by his Praetorian prefect Marcus Opellius Macrinus.

In the end, state prosecutors said, it was those checks — and his reluctance to discuss the source of the funds — that caused his downfall.

His wealth is one source of his popularity, and now of his possible downfall -- a fall that would deepen the political instability in a nation that has still not climbed out of the economic slump of four years ago.

Shades of Downfall in these scenes.