Sentences with phrase «almost befell»

Most significantly, REITs will be able to avoid the fate that almost befell Pennsylvania REIT earlier this year when the mall owner nearly forfeited its REIT status due to a minor accounting mistake.

Not exact matches

How could it be otherwise, given the almost absolute necessity for a woman in Regency England to find a suitable mate and the consequences that befell her if she made a bad choice?

We must now try to say a word about an experience that sooner or later befalls almost every adult — the grief that comes when death removes a person that is loved.

Though the thinking of our animistic ancestors may seem to us naïve, it remains true that a multitude of whimsical gods, so constituted that they are likely to be pleased or displeased by almost anything, is not incongruous with the welter of man's joys and miseries, befalling him, at least when superficially observed, with irrational capriciousness.

This is the worst fate that has befallen the idea, but it was and continues to be an almost inevitable development.

Chapter one writer Brian Michael Bendis opens the story in almost stereotypical big action flick style: we see the Phoenix force destroy a planet before heading toward Earth, we meet our heroes (at least the Avengers appear to be our heroes based on how Cyclops acts later in the book... but we'll get to that in a minute) in the calm before the storm, and then disaster befalls New York City.

Waterproof, dirt proof, snow proof, and shock proof: this phone case protects your traveler's device against almost any ill that can befall a phone.