The primary goal is not to extinguish anyone's political viability, but to serve notice that a candidate or officeholder who advocates the regulation of independent speech will suffer a devastating downfall as an inevitable consequence.
If this were a novel, and we had those 250 pages to go, the only plot development that would make narrative sense would be for our hero to suffer a tragic, vertiginous downfall.
Like countless others in Ireland, O'Donnell has suffered a spectacular downfall as a result of his property dealings.
And many of the proceeds end up in the pockets of officials.This cronyism and profligacy leads critics to liken China to other fast-growing economies that subsequently suffered a spectacular downfall.
Maybe you didn't know he was head of Paramount Pictures overseeing megahits like "Chinatown," "Rosemary's Baby," "Love Story" and "The Godfather" or that he suffered a great downfall, accompanied by cocaine.
None of this would be necessary to say if Black accepted that he was guilty of taking shareholders' and creditors' money; after all, he suffered a shocking downfall and imprisonment.
Even as the Egyptian Army was busy rounding up the Brotherhood's entire leadership, Syrian state news media were quick to seize on an inescapable fact: the most prominent of the leaders brought to power by the Arab popular revolts that inspired the Syrian uprising had suffered an ignominious downfall, yet Mr. Assad, after meeting his own opponents with uncompromising force, was still standing.
The high bar proved the catalyst for Britain's literal downfall as Dan Keatings suffered a severe fall on his first appearance at this level in two years, having come back from ligament damage.
And yet Britney, too, suffered a much-derided public downfall.
It's not just that both these claims are false (as is Bruner's further, Aristotelian claim that the protagonist in a tragedy "must suffer his downfall via the very virtues that made him a hero").
