Sentence examples for sudden downfall from inspiring English sources

The Americans clearly don't want to do anything that could prompt Assad's sudden downfall, either.

The sudden downfall came as a surprise to outsiders who had watched Mr. Sokol rise in the business world.

The sudden downfall last month of the German president, Christian Wulff, whom she had picked for the job in 2010, did her no apparent harm.

But if they had expected quietly to mind the shop until handing over to an elected successor in July, they are quickly being disabused.One pressing matter left by the sudden downfall last month of President Alberto Fujimori is the economy.

His sudden downfall is a major crisis for the church in Scotland, where most of the country's 750,000 Catholics are of Irish ancestry and live in the central belt between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

AFTER a turbulent year, which saw first a rigged election and then the sudden downfall of its victor, Alberto Fujimori, most Peruvians were hoping that quieter times would lie ahead.

Conversely, a sudden heavy downfall can add dramatically to the weight of the surface layer of soil and clay, making it too heavy for the cave beneath to bear.

On Monday, through a twist that few could have foreseen, Lt. Gov. David A. Paterson will be sworn in as the 55th governor of New York — an accidental governor thrust into a position of extraordinary power by the sudden, gaudy downfall of his former running mate, Eliot Spitzer.

His enemies included those he brought to justice, who gloated at his sudden and dramatic downfall.

Bryson tells us that the Klan's "downfall was sudden", in 1925, and although it's true that the Klan declined from its peak membership and was increasingly marginalised, it clearly remained a force of murderous terror for much of the 20th century.

While his downfall was sudden, opposition to Chavez's rule had reportedly been growing for a while culminating in the oil strike that roiled world markets, especially when combined with unrest in the Middle East.