Sentences with phrase «befell many»

In the end, after much pleading by the delegation, Nana Konaduâ $ ™ s father reluctantly gave in, telling Djan that he would hold him responsible for any ill that befell her daughter in the marriage.

Some renegades from the ruling party only used the unfortunate tragedy that befell the Adelekes to give teeth to it.

Indeed, the conviction of any defendant, whether it is a single person or an entire agency, will not undo the tragedy that befell Graffagnino and Beddia on that day.

Above all, let us ensure that the economic catastrophe which befell this country will never be repeated.»

What will ensue in 2003 if what occurred to the local government councils befell the state in the event of the recurrence of the intricacies associated with the avoidable crisis?

With strict press censorship in place, their «underground» newspaper Biplabi was a record of the calamities, both natural and man - made, that befell Midnapore at that time.

«It is a glaring fact that the current economic challenges befell the country was a product of 16 years misrule and bad governance of past administrations in the country.

For David Laws himself it is a misfortune, of course, though it is certainly not a tragedy; what befell Airey Neave was a tragedy.

He and Kimberly have since founded The Quaid Foundation — thequaidfoundation.org — dedicated to helping minimize the kind of medical mistakes in hospitals that befell their newborn twins.

Onyekuru's form over these past two seasons indicates he will be an asset to a misfiring Eagles attack, but will he avoid the fate that befell Uche eight years ago?

Instead — unlike the disaster that earlier in the contest befell Chesson Hadley — well, this miracle happened:

The recent setback that befell the VAR system came after Chelsea manager Antonio Conte, a person who had been a staunch supporter of the VAR system became unmotivated with the way it ruled against a match unjustly.

Already, Gazidis is in danger of falling into the trap that befell United.

The impossible befell the invincible last week and Oklahoma's scientific formula for victory (SI, Nov. 18) failed before the Fighting Irish in a truly crashing upset

It's not the best idea to steal, though, as during FP2 Kimi left the pits with a cross-threaded front - right wheel nut and had to stop soon after - the exact same fate that befell the Haas drivers in Australia.

I don't know what befell Kos and Musti.

Sanchez is yet to hit form after playing a million games and Giroud is yet to overcome the goal drought that befell him towards the end of last season.

The misfortune that befell Cleveland wideout Braylon Edwards (right) on Sunday — a torn right ACL that ended his promising rookie season — is the latest in a litany of woes for the team's top draft picks.

What befell Tiger on the par - 4 14th was a microcosm of his early struggles with the flat stick.

Allen's very presence no doubt also had something to do with further misfortune that befell the Rams in the second quarter.

Silence befell the San Paolo, not even the most optimistic of fans decided to celebrate the goal.

«Accidents» befell priests in Lithuania.

Jesus told his disciples what to expect from society, so that they would not be surprised when disaster befell them.

But Luther then went on to the main purpose of the letter, to tell the Elector that it was not his responsibility, and he was not to worry if any ill befell Luther.

If a man in despair is as he thinks conscious of his despair, does not talk about it meaninglessly as of something which befell him (pretty much as when a man who suffers from vertigo talks with nervous self - deception about a weight upon his head or about its being like something falling upon him, etc., this weight and this pressure being in fact not something external but an inverse reflection from an inward experience), and if by himself and by himself only he would abolish the despair, then by all the labor he expends he is only laboring himself deeper into a deeper despair.

The catastrophe that befell the Son characterizes all conditions of human existence and answers buildings shattered as well as unscathed.

Faith and theology are no necessary exceptions to the evils that befell science.

The 100 Indonesian Christians in New Hampshire and New Jersey are now fighting a legal battle that, if lost, could lead them to the same fate that befell Massie.

He likely became a national god for all of the Jewish tribes when Saul created the United Monarchy sometime between 1020 and 930 B.C.E.. Later, after the Assyrians conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel and the Babylonians conquered the southern Kingdom of Judah and took the royal family and the kingdom's elite to Babylon starting in 597 B.C.E, when the Jews had to re-evaluate their religious beliefs, because of the calamity that befell them, there was a shift to view their god as a universal god in works such as the Book of Isaiah, which were composed after the Exile.

He shows Sam and his family the point of accepting all that befell them as God's gift.

It is unhelpful to their case to try to imagine how Jesus in his passion can redeem the evil that befell them merely by redeeming the sin that they, and Sam in particular, had committed.

Disaster (possibly a plague) befell the Assyrian army and Sennacherib withdrew (ch 19; cf. Isaiah 37).2

«Now lithe and listen lordlings, while the Christians» hap I tell, That, as they lay in leaguer, from hunger them befell.

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?

I do want to stress, however, that failure to undertake such reforms would mean condemning the United States to the fate that befell the Roman Republic and all other empires since then.

Some most flagrant and wicked desires are allowed free play at present by the secret judgment of God... Moreover, it is possible that those Christian women, who are unconscious of any undue pride on account of their virtuous chastity, whereby they sinlessly suffered the violence of their captors, had yet some lurking infirmity which might have betrayed them into a proud and contemptuous bearing, had they not been subjected to the humiliation that befell them in the taking of the city [Whitney J. Oates, editor, Basic Writings of Saint Augustine, vol.

I think this has real possibilities: though the danger here, as I see it, is precisely the one that befell Hegel, who assumed that metaphysical thinking was simply mythical thinking grown mature and sure of itself.

Applying Dedalus's remark to biology, one can ask: What ensures that the human species will not someday be one of the «thousand types» for which nature does not care, which will perish in a global holocaust of the type that befell the dinosaurs?

And when he stood silent in Yad Vashem» whose plain and stark memorialization of the horrors that befell the Jewish people at the hands of the Nazis positively begs for silence» he left a drop of the kind of healing balm on the hearts of Jews that the Church had never before found the means (assuming the desire) to do.

This needs to be carefully noted, lest one experience in the world of the spirit what befell the traveler who asked if the road on which he was journeying went to London, and was told by the Englishman that it did; in spite of which he failed to reach London, because the Englishman had omitted to mention that he needed to turn about, since he was proceeding in the opposite direction.

The cross in its redemptive aspect is not an isolated incident which befell a mythical personage, but an event whose meaning has «cosmic» importance.

And when tragedy strikes another family they justify it with musings in their heads about the others not being as worthy or not trying hard enough which is why bad things befell them.

And this is a result of the upheaval that befell the world through Hitler.

Did she want him to come back to her, seeking comfort, after his wife died in an «accident» that befell her?

Nor is it unreasonable to contemplate the possibility of Trudeau facing re-election as the economy tanks, which was the fate that befell his former adversary in 2015.

I sat on a committee of Liberal backbenchers when the whole bank merger issue arose and when the banks themselves, the CEOs of the banks, wanted to expand into the U.S. and merge with a lot of the American banks, which would have caused us the same kind of turmoil that befell the Americans.

Graham's integrity was credited with salvaging the reputation of broadcast evangelism in the dark days of the late 1980s, after scandals befell TV preachers Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker.

The same calamities that befell the hospitality industry when Cara was public are still threats, for the short term anyway.

But as the project's profile increased, Northern Gateway itself became a target for the same sort of hostility that befell Keystone.

Consider, if you will: of all the punishments (or more neutrally, all the bad outcomes) that could befall a sexist buffoon, which one do you think is most fitting?