While there's often much talk of sexual assault allegations bringing down prominent men, the reality is that those downfalls are often short-lived, and the cloud of disgrace can clear quickly.
You never know quite where you are with a good villain because they're always plotting the downfall of those who trust them.
It will come as something of a shock to those who assumed the downfall of Armstrong - and lack of major doping crises in recent years - meant the sport had been healed.
Wright, an author of fiction and non-fiction works, uses the fallen civilisations of Easter Island, Sumer, Rome, and Maya, as well as examples from the Stone Age, to see what conditions led to the downfall of those societies.
The Bible teaches that it is forbidden to rejoice at the downfall of even those sinners whom it is proper to hate: "Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth".
He condemned those who used slogans for the downfall of the Islamic Republic and the supreme leader.
The government issued a statement saying those arrested had "called for the downfall of the regime and had intelligence contacts with foreign countries".
Many of those against the proposed charter chanted for the downfall of Mr. Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected president.
"Berlin: The Downfall, 1945" or "Stalingrad" — one of those big books he always liked, about a city getting hammered in the Second World War.
And it is those women who are the beginning of the downfall - quite public, utterly political - for the leader who defined himself as a ladykiller and epic lover.
The letter said that Negroes were not the downfall of Mississippi society, but whites like those in White Citizens' Councils that condoned violence.
