Sentence examples for to downfall from inspiring English sources

The corollary, of course, is that intolerance leads to downfall.

IN HIS journey from hubris to downfall and now redemption, Christian Wulff is a tragic Sophoclean character for many Germans.

But where the Son of Paradise Regained maintains steadfastly his resistance to temptation, Samson typifies human vulnerability to downfall.

Lech Walesa The Gdansk shipyard strike leader and founder of trade union movement Solidarity that led to downfall of communism.

It's her voice that is heard in a kind of prologue to "Downfall," and it's her handsome, elderly face, in a borrowed excerpt from "Blind Spot," that is seen at the finish.

The Guard, comparing the kingdom's execution of Sheikh Nimr to attacks carried out by Isis, said in a statement published on Sunday that Saudi Arabia's "medieval act of savagery" in putting the prominent cleric to death will lead to "downfall" of the monarchy.

It could actually lead to downfalls, if not for him personally then of some of those around him.

Many factors contributed to the downfall, according to people involved with the orchestra.

Cardew intended this piece to contribute to the downfall of capitalist imperialism.

His divorce, intended to be "amicable", led to his downfall.

(Sega's inability to do so led to its downfall as a hardware vendor).