Sentence examples for sunk him from inspiring English sources

Mr Dangote has confessed in the past to a fear that Obajana might have sunk him.

They backed Mr Prodi in 1996, sunk him in 1998, backed his successor, Massimo D'Alema, then dumped him too.

He thinks Bill Clinton sunk him and W. robbed him, and he wants what he thinks is his.

Two centuries of traipsing the earth in search of unlucky hikers to devour has sunk him into a bona fide midlife crisis.

An irony then that it was his out-of-hours zeal for gung-ho, unorthodox diplomacy – Werritty as his answer to Ronald Reagan's Colonel Oliver North – that sunk him.

It didn't matter that the charges weren't true, and it didn't matter that the news media exposed the smear - McCain's decision not to spend campaign funds to fight back sunk him.

How many and what kind of missteps and discoveries about Perot it would take to sink him--if he is sinkable--is anybody's guess.

"Failure will sink him," the newspaper wrote.

Labour's fear had been that his grumpy, wonkish image might sink him in the debates.

But like any addictive behavior, this retreat from shame only sinks him deeper into shame.

By overplaying the man, you keep him relevant, instead of letting his own content sink him.