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downfall

A downfall is a quick fall from power or riches. The empire's downfall happened when the emperor was killed with out a prince.

downfall

failure that results in a loss of position or reputation (= fall) a sudden decline in strength or number or importance the fall of the House of Hapsburg (= precipitation) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist)

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That's been my downfall.
She shall see who led her men to the slaughter who's responsible for her downfall.
You'll meet your downfall.
There shall be nothing left of my work and of that science that has been my downfall.
You look that part more than I look like Bill Hickok's downfall.
Ay me, I see the downfall of our house.
Yet whether you accept our suit or no. your brother's son shall never reign our king. but we will plant some other in the throne. to the disgrace and downfall of your house.
You've been my downfall from the first day I met you!
You want to gloat over my downfall?
His madness will cause his downfall.
Yes, and that might be your downfall.
I accept, dependent on Robespierre's downfall.
I came to make sure of Robespierre's downfall.
They've just heard about the downfall of Robespierre.
Look into this room and view the secret of my downfall.
He has money, and that's his downfall!
Do you know what a Mermaid's Downfall is?
We must fulfil them, or face our downfall.
In it, he attempts to ridicule Your Majesty's most trusted ministers, and calls for their downfall.
It will be a banquet worthy of Peppone's downfall.
They're our downfall. the furniture makers. and the landlords.
The Jews are our downfall.
Your kindness will be your downfall.
The victorious campaigns were the cause of our downfall.
Judy's become so trusting of people that her own good nature could be her downfall.
I told you 20 years ago, when you first came under my command that pride would be your downfall and it will be, if it has not already been.
We'll have to drink to Germany's downfall in their own damn wine.
That's right. downfall!
You followed these decoy palanquins right to your own downfall.
I predict its downfall, believe me!
And precisely here will come his downfall.
My indolence has often been my downfall.

News and current affairs

Chernobyl changed Ukraine forever, and was a catalyst for the downfall of the Soviet Union.
We cannot be trapped so easily by things that taste good but will cause our downfall.
The Party's abrupt vilification of Bo after lauding him for his leadership in Chongqing has fueled public cynicism over his orchestrated downfall and laid bare the leadership's thin ideological core.
The downfall of many business leaders in recent years has been greed and selfish ambition.
First, once you pin blame for a conflict on a single individual, a Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong Il, it is difficult to see a solution to international conflict that does not result from the tyrant's downfall.
Its downfall, they believe, would mean dispossession and death for the regime's leadership and for a large part of the minority Alawite community from which it is drawn.
He was able to strategize effectively on foreign policy, but was less able to control the personal insecurities that eventually led to his downfall - a shortcoming that emerged only over time.
Let us hope that this spring - ten years after the US invasion and Saddam's downfall - brings Iraq a new and constructive beginning.
Nevertheless, electronic eavesdropping without court authorization, of the sort Bush ordered starting in 2002, played a particularly important part in Nixon's downfall.
Indeed, living standards have been under severe pressure since Mubarak's downfall.
As wildly different as the two cases are, Fatah resembles the French monarchy before the revolution, incapable of learning from experience or taking the steps needed to avoid its own downfall.
At the same time, Egypt and Saudi Arabia want desperately to avoid the downfall of Assad's regime.
What is happening in Poland, the country where communism's downfall began?
I remember an early conversation with some young Egyptians shortly after President Hosni Mubarak's downfall in 2011.
This is the vengeful side of our fawning, as though the humiliation of worshipping idols must be balanced by our delight in their downfall.
While Ahmedinejad's apocalyptic vision makes it difficult for westerners to deal with him, Khamenei does not want to stumble into a military confrontation with the West, which would destabilize Iran and possibly lead to the regime's downfall.
Libyan civil society is not as developed as its Egyptian and Tunisian counterparts, which further suggests that Qaddafi's downfall could result in tribal warfare.
Failure to fall in line will be your downfall - regardless of how wealthy or well known you are.
Europe does face severe demographic problems, but size of population is not highly correlated with power, and predictions of Europe's downfall have a long history of failing to materialize.
The Islamist governments that have emerged from the downfall of America's puppet regimes are no friends of an Iranian nuclear empire.
A downfall plotted to happen on a Kremlin-supplied bed would be a denouement that not even one of Berlusconi's TV channels could dream up.

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