Sentence examples for would have tumbled from inspiring English sources

"Without stabilisation one orchestra after another would have tumbled into the kind of mess we were in," he said.

The industrywide result would have tumbled 13percentt if Hewlett- Packard had not almost doubled its shipments, Gartner said.

If clothing prices were denominated in end-1992 dollars, prices would have tumbled below many other products, such as food and drink (see chart).

Art historians, for example, have argued that Washington could never have been standing up as the Leutze painting claims, since anyone so doing would have tumbled headlong into the ice.

I have little doubt that if Greece were not part of the European Union, with the protection and example afforded by this much maligned democratic club, it would have tumbled into catastrophe by now, much as a humiliated Germany did after 1918.

The markets would have tumbled more if it were not for the possibility that the election shock may force the Liberal Democrats -- who have changed policy in the past in reaction to electoral defeat -- to become more aggressive in tackling the nation's economic problems.

They moved down the ridge through a thicket of rhododendron, the ground so aslant that in a couple of places he'd have tumbled if he hadn't watched how Lucy did it, front foot sideways and leaning backward.

Even if the U.S. had enjoyed balanced trade in the past two decades, the share of manufacturing in employment would still have tumbled.

The 1971 California earthquake cracked the walls of Pietro Vitale's San Fernando pizza factory, and would also have tumbled the firm into bankruptcy, had it not been for a $400,000 loan from the Small Business Administration.

Such a move would prop up prices, which have tumbled since reaching about $76 a barrel for West Texas intermediate crude, the American benchmark, in early October.

And how much lower would the price of oil have tumbled without Morgan Stanley and other banks' intercession?