Sentences with phrase «steep fall from»

The results are another reminder of McDonnell's steep fall from grace, even after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his public corruption conviction earlier this year.

The sentencing marks another rung in Silver's steep fall from grace.

Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday, capping a steep fall from grace for a consummate backroom dealer who wielded power for over two decades.

The conviction was a steep fall from grace for Silver — a once beloved assemblyman who represented Lower Manhattan for more than 35 years.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork / AP)-- Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is asking the public for a second chance as he starts collecting thousands of signatures needed to enter the race for New York City comptroller, years after he was caught in a prostitution scandal that culminated in one of politics» steepest falls from power.

It's a sharp, teasing setup for a tale of even higher stakes and steeper falls from grace, set in motion by an early scene of Molly being arrested by the FBI for her alleged involvement in an illegal gambling racket.

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The fall from grace has been a steep one, though, as the cryptocurrency is well below $ 1 now.

PC shipments are expected to fall 7.3 % in 2016 compared to a year ago, according to new estimates from IDC, in what is a steeper decline than originally forecast.

U.S. stocks fell sharply in volatile trading Monday, extending a steep sell - off from the previous session.

In reality, Taylor took charge after P&G shares suffered a steep decline, falling from $ 93.50 in December of 2014, to $ 76.38 on Nov. 2, 2015, the first day of trading under the new regime.

Similar to bitcoin, the etherum price also saw a steep fall on Thursday, from $ 285 to $ 256.

Also, the labour market in Europe continues to make only very slow progress with unemployment falling from a peak of 12.1 % in April 2013 to 10.3 % in January 2016, contrasting sharply with the steeper declines seen in the US and the UK over the past five years.

The staircase picture below may look steep to you as an adult, so imagine what it may look like to a small child, and what the consequences of him or she falling from this height may be.

Top of Stairs Baby Gate — Irvine, CA The staircase picture below may look steep to you as an adult, so imagine what it may look like to a small child, and what the consequences of him or she falling from this height may be.

Younger teens in the 15 to 17 age group accounted for the steepest decline in nonmarital birth rates in 2013, falling 13 percent from 2012 and continuing a steady decline over the past several decades.

The number of traffic fatalities in 2017 in New York City plummeted to the lowest level since record - keeping started over a century ago, city officials said — a decline led by a steep drop in pedestrian deaths, which fell by nearly a third from the year before.

Initial figures from the Financial Times showed a very steep fall in job openings advertised online in the week immediately following the referendum.

The fall for adolescent girls was steeper still, from 85 to 65 %.

If a spacecraft at L3 drifted toward or away from Earth, it would fall irreversibly toward the sun or Earth, «like a barely balanced cart atop a steep hill,» according to astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

After accounting for potential bias, the researchers concluded that the gender gap for drinking fell by 3.2 percent with each successive five - year generation, but was steepest among those born from 1966 onward.

That's a pretty steep 67 percent drop from its first weekend, but better than the original's, which fell off more than 75 percent in its second week.

The special effects are nifty enough (demons hanging from the ceiling, fingers being chopped off) and you can tell the directors are well - steeped in the subterranean worlds of The Exorcist and Blue Velvet but even as an act of homage, the film falls flat.

Every steep cliff side fallen from and every soldier taken too soon, it is showcased for you to cringe at and eventually cry over.

«It's weirdly charming for a movie so steeped in pain and death, with terrific work from both leads and a nice supporting turn from Great Great Great's Dan Beirne as a kind - hearted artist who falls into Faye and Ronnie's decaying orbit.

Almost the same pattern holds for teacher salaries, except the drop in support among the less - educated is very steep, falling from 54 % to 28 %.

Before the credit recovery program began across the district in the fall, the projected graduation rate was 54 percent, a steep decline from last year's all - time high of 77 percent.

The dive down from The Gooseneck is already very steep but there's an extra few degrees of fall just before you get to Mansfield.

But like other US publishing groups, the firm is suffering from a steep decline in print advertising revenue, falling circulation and the migration of readers to free news online.

Shipments of ebook readers by year - end will fall to 14.9 million units, down a steep 36 percent from the 23.2 million units in 2011 that now appears to have been the peak of the ebook reader market.

In 2014, as Slate noted, Forrester Research projected that e-reader sales would fall to 7 million per year by 2017, a steep drop from the 25 million units sold in 2012.

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A day's drive from York, for example, will take you through stretches of wild, heather - covered moorland, ablaze with colour in the fall; or past the steep, sheep - dotted mountainsides of the Dailes, in which isolated hamlets are scattered.

From MacKenzie Falls car park, walk down steep steps to the base of the waterfall for 1 km.

Passengers enjoy a ten minute stop here, where they are treated to spectacular, uninterrupted views of Barron Falls, a stunning 410ft steep tiered cascade waterfall, from the famous Barron Falls lookout.

These falls are tucked away in a steep canyon and are only a short hike from the main road.

While you can't go down to the lake (unless you accidentally fall down the steep sides of the crater), the view from above is amazing.

Che Chem Ha is approximately 16 miles from San Ignacio near Vaca Falls within a steep hillside overlooking the Macal River, and is a «dry» cave (no water source originates in the cave).

Unfortunately, that can get to be a real tough proposition in situations where you have to move up a steep incline, avoid falling rocks and then elude missiles from a hostile sub.

It's a deeply unfriendly survival game in which you can die from malaria, food poisoning and starvation, as well as being eaten or by breaking your leg after falling down a slightly - too - steep hill.

From its windswept hilltop, situated so high that on a very clear day you can see the Lizard peninsula some 70 miles away, to its steep hillsides that fall away precipitously toward the estuary below making for tough going even by foot in places.»

Yeah, the rise is so steep you can't really see the sawtooth pattern from the falling temps and rising again, which happens twice, first from around 1850 to 1910, then from 1942 to 1975 (steep rise 1780 to 1850, 1910 to 1942, and 1975 to 2000).

Icy Silence from Climate Alarmists «Global land temperatures have plummeted by one degree Celsius since the middle of this year — the biggest and steepest fall on record.»

As Bryce points out, shale natural gas wells deplete at a very fast rate: «The new shale gas wells... have steep decline curves, meaning that output from some wells may fall by 80 to 90 percent during the first year of production.»

But far from the numbers falling, the past year has seen a steep increase as gas and electricity bills have rocketed.

On a job, you could fall from a steep height, be crushed by heavy machinery, or even be impaled.

Still, even though I'm not an adrenaline junkie, I have found myself in some interesting predicaments: upside down in brambles after flipping over the handlebars along a ridge trail on my mountain bike, thankful I didn't do anything more than scrape my arms and bruise my right buttock; crawling on the wet sand after a rogue wave sucked all the water backward from the beach and pounded me straight down on a shore break; lying in the midst of a steep run, skis splayed, having fallen after an ill - advised aerial maneuver, ribs first, onto the center of a mogul, unable to ascertain whether air would ever return to my lungs.

Bitcoin prices denominated in Indian rupees fell 27 % on Friday, trading at a steep discount to the widely quoted Coindesk price index, according to data from CryptoCompare.

During afternoon trading in Asia, bitcoin was down by 7 percent for the day, after recovering from an even steeper fall earlier in the morning.

Today, on March 14, the price of bitcoin fell dangerously close to the $ 7,000 region, and given that it dipped below $ 8,030, it is possible that bitcoin could fall to the $ 7,000 mark in the short - term, which would be a steep decline from its weekly high at $ 11,400.

Bitcoin is recovering from a steep value reduction, Litecoin is still finding difficulties crossing and staying beyond the $ 300 dollar mark it crossed at the beginning of the month, Bitcoin Cash has fallen from $ 4,000 to almost half that price.