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1 We didn't cause the downfall of man.
2 They were intended solely to arouse the camp and cause the downfall of the girls who were running for their tents.
3 Everybody knows that when panics arise the breaking of one merchant causes the downfall of another.
4 To put your hands on them, you will be instrumental in causing the downfall of a friend.
5 A single glance made it plain that drink had caused the downfall of nearly all of them.
6 The poet compares Thais to Helen, whose fatal beauty caused the downfall of Troy, 852 years before.
7 The gods caused the downfall of Egypt.
8 What was it, he asked, that had caused the downfall of the Brethren in Bohemia and Moravia?
9 In my opinion it was he who caused the downfall of your house, for his own wicked ends.
10 He himself gave into my hands dominion over all the world, thus causing the downfall of my enemies.
11 Such an internecine war often caused the downfall of a dynasty-attimes, indeed, that of the entire state.
12 The commission's report describes him as "the architect" of the strategy that caused the downfall of HBOS.
13 The proposed scheme proved to be too radical for the tsar's government in 1906 and caused the downfall of the first Duma.
14 And robbing us of this by saying Eve caused the downfall , it has cut us off from our life source, from our Eve.
15 According to Prof Miller, it is not apathetic inactivity that causes the downfall of successful companies, but too much activity of the wrong kind.
16 "There are stories about a horse," the Magi said, "which was offered in friendship and caused the downfall of an empire."
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