Sentences with phrase «to come tumbling down»

When a megachurch's walls came tumbling down in China's Jerusalem last month, the forced demolition drew widespread international attention thanks to photos circulating on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.

As he begins to investigate, his world comes tumbling down around him.

In January 2013, I officially crashed — the walls just came tumbling down as my physical well - being deteriorated.

The economy was based on a financial house of cards, which came tumbling down in 2007.

Until Dawn manages to secure a significant understanding of the concept, to the point where enough eyebrow - raising and nerve - racking occurrences present themselves early enough to keep players invested, but doesn't come tumbling down like a house of cards in the first hour or two.

Any little week and those chips come tumbling down with a ferocious zeal.

He just kept acquiring companies until federal regulators put a stop to it and the house of cards came tumbling down.

Things don't really get good until a flashback to a company dinner Madoff threw for his employees the summer before everything came tumbling down.

The experience puts Eastwood's character in a vulnerable position when the full force of a corrupt world leader comes tumbling down on him.

In the best scene in the movie, Kate's world comes tumbling down on her after some domestic investigation in the attic.

But the walls haven't come tumbling down just yet.

Plaster on lath construction came tumbling down.

A month or so later the other blind came tumbling down.

But his burgeoning social media efforts came tumbling down after the Facebook - owned company shuttered his account, 24 hours after CNBC inquired about it.

When they do, they realize that it is all a sham, a house of cards that, once you realize the basis is completely bogus, nothing else makes sense, either and the whole thing comes tumbling down.

And the stock came tumbling down.

The foolish man built his house upon the sand The foolish man built his house upon the sand The foolish man built his house upon the sand And the rain came tumbling down

Then I got an opportunity to move to New York City and all the «life lessons» I thought I had conquered came tumbling down in a New York minute.

Mr McLean and the Archbishop's delegation said a brief prayer outside Abraham's tomb: «May the walls of fear between Abraham's family come tumbling down».

«Wouldn't it be something to see a drowned elephant come tumbling down through these falls?»

Burns his finger whilst lighting his shisha pipe, Jumps up, bangs his knee on table and everything comes tumbling down onto his toe.

It stayed there — but a Walter Hagen driver came tumbling down.

Eden Hazard, Riyad Mahrez and N'Golo Kante have been the past three winners, with the latter available at odds of 80/1 near the start of the 2016 - 17 season before his odds came tumbling down as the Frenchman helped Chelsea win the Premier League a year after achieving the same thing with Leicester City.

Nothing is worse than watching your completed gingerbread house come tumbling down, so it is important that you use a reliable «glue» to keep the pieces together.

The pyramid comes tumbling down and with it the big top, harming animal performers and Dumbo's self - esteem alike.

Then, the over 49 million excess bricks Cowboy and Indian had stowed come tumbling down, taking their house with it.

As he kept quiet, his reputation came tumbling down.

In the online collaborative project That's the Way the Cookie Tumbles, students stack Oreos one at a time until the cookies come tumbling down.

This is the gatekeepers whining to the government to rebuild the walls that came tumbling down so they can regain the power they once had over authors and their ability to claim most of the value of a book for themselves.

You'll soon see your monthly expenses come tumbling down, meaning that you can put that hard earned cash to much better use!

«Mom was awfully mad when the whole tree came tumbling down!

Movements were more pronounced in the»60s and»70s, but fast - forward to artists who emerged in the»90s, and the firewalls come tumbling down.

The»80s should be remembered as a decade in which even more of the remaining traditional barriers separating contemporary craft and fine arts came tumbling down.

Even we had raised cynical eyebrows at some who predicted that prices of flagship devices would come tumbling down following Xiaomi's arrival.

Alcohol makes your inhibitions and common sense come tumbling down, and it vastly increases the chance that you will say or do something that's at best silly or at worst truly regrettable.

The sneering reply that Vince's contribution to the debate was simply «spreading alarm without substance» tells the audience outside Westminster why a Prime Minister, with an attitude like this to critics, ends up with so few friends in the House and, now that his pack of cards has come tumbling down around the voters» ears, even less sympathy outside.

What if classroom walls came tumbling down and the second floor was replaced with open work space?

What complicates the matter further is that each spiritual belief is built upon a whole framework of other spiritual beliefs, so that if one of them begins to collapse, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.

Similar to the stock market during the tech boom of the 1990s and real estate just before the Great Recession, Bitcoin may come tumbling down soon.

It isn't, «I told you, legacy would still be standing after everything came tumbling down!»

As an example, sometimes the dangerous skulls that litter a level will come tumbling down on top of you, and sometimes they will be of a certain colour.

Then one cord locked and the blind came tumbling down.

On Everest, one of the most frightening parts of the mountain is the Khumbu Icefall, two - thousand vertical feet of massive columns of glacial ice that can shift around at any moment and come tumbling down in a gigantic ice avalanche, crushing everything in their paths.

As you might imagine, the wife's world comes tumbling down, but Stewart's story is thankfully not predictable.