Sentences with phrase «one's eventual downfall»

I bet the makers of stone tools were just as upset about their loss of market share to the bronze tools as our fossil fuel CEOs and investors are about their own eventual downfall.

He was only at Leeds for a few months but the Brazilian played a significant part in the club's eventual downfall Central Midfielder: Eric Djemba - Djemba (Manchester United, Aston Villa) So bad they named him twice?

The thing that proved to be Moyes» eventual downfall was the awe and magnitude of managing a team like United and what they really needed was someone with the experience of van Gaal.

He made a mission of solidifying the Republican majority in Congress, and his ability to raise campaign cash was part of his power and eventual downfall.

This finding does not mean climate - related changes could not have stressed some wildlife populations, enabling humans to more easily bring about their eventual downfall.

The rise of moralising religions like Christianity can be explained by evolution — and so can their eventual downfall, says evolutionary psychologist Nicolas Baumard

In 2011, Egyptians found power in numbers in their Tahrir Square protests — leading to the eventual downfall of the ruling regime, and in the near - term cutting off beneficial relationships between the government and favored companies.

This divide was credited as being a major event leading to the massive diplomatic cable leak of over 250,000 documents in September 2011 and Assange's eventual downfall.

Part and parcel with all that chest - expansion, however, is the idea that the seeds for the Soviet Union's eventual downfall were sown by the victories the United States won in the second decade of the Cold War.

It is also the beginning of his eventual downfall.

There's consequently little doubt that the meandering nature of This is Spinal Tap's structure is, at the outset, not nearly as problematic as one might've anticipated, yet it's just as clear that the film begins to demonstrably run out of steam somewhere around its midway point - with Reiner's unapologetically low - key modus operandi contributing heavily to the movie's eventual downfall (ie the whole thing is just too slight and too insignificant to withstand a feature - length running time).

Moreover, there is talk of developing «Cicero» into a possible trilogy with the first film chronicling Capone's rise and the subsequent film (or films) tracking his reign and eventual downfall.

Amazon is going to destroy the Big 6, destroy bookstores, destroy 95 % of all agents, destroy distributors (Ingram, Baker & Taylor), and revolutionize the publishing industry by becoming the dominant force... Blaming Amazon for your eventual downfall is like blaming a lion for being king of the jungle.

They could have saved themselves the effort of developing the poorly supported LCD devices which was B&N's eventual downfall.

He didn't finish the job and that may be his eventual downfall.

Ultimately, it was this uncompromising approach to the game's online infrastructure that in part lead to its eventual downfall.

That set up the eventual downfall and call to action for Ezio to pick up the hoodie and embark on his quest.

This is the beginning of his eventual downfall.

The home video game industry was on the verge of a major crash thanks to the eventual downfall of the Atari, but Miyamoto changed all that.

Performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mozart's Don Giovanni shares the tale of a promiscuous nobleman and his eventual downfall to the throngs of Hell for his wrongdoings.

Edward Snowden, the known whistleblower that founded WikiLeaks several years ago, has stated that Bitcoin's public ledger might be a vulnerability that causes its eventual downfall.