Quotes About Toppled

ISIS controls a territory roughly the size of Maryland where 8 million people live. If it's attacked and toppled, who will fill the void?

Not every financial company toppled during the 2008 crisis, and some seized the opportunity to take advantage of weaker competitors in the midst of the tumult.

Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.

One of the floral arrangements swayed like a drunken sailor, then toppled, clattering to the floor.

It is one of the supreme ironies of history that the blessed birth of an only son should have proved the mortal blow. Even as the saluting cannons boomed and the flags waved, Fate had prepared a terrible story. Along with the lost battles and sunken ships, the bombs, the revolutionaries and their plots, the strikes and revolts, Imperial Russia was toppled by a tiny defect in the body of a little boy.

the air would get so heavy with moisture he imagined he could feel each bloated molecule as it toppled into his lungs.

Suddenly, stories of abuse and harassment are being believed; abusers and harassers are being toppled. Yet, at the same time, one of the top movies in the country right now is 'Daddy's Home 2,' which has a biggish, comedic part for Mel Gibson. He's the man whose anti-Semitism and racist rants became part of the cultural lore.

Bishops all over the world had been toppled on the mere allegation of a cover-up regarding claims of clergy sexual abuse.

And then Alvin Finch, aka BoneMan, aka Satan, toppled to his left. He bounced off the post in the middle of the room, struck the concrete next to the hammer's head with a loud slap, and lay still.

Huh" Wayne said thoughtfully "Tea's poisoned." With that, he toppled to the ground.

The foundations of some formerly strong lands became so riddled with termites of diminished purpose, so decayed with the decadence of smug moderation, and so emaciated with the vacillating aims of appears, that even when they saw the enemy coming and did resist, they were easily toppled when the Imperial Order finally pushed.

Dictators aren't stupid, or regimes could be toppled easily by young people mobilizing on Facebook.

If you want to initiate a broader debate about racism, is it really healthy to create an atmosphere in which it is not only statues that are being toppled but a range of cultural artefacts, TV series, celebrities, columnists and controversial broadcasters?

Far be in from me to dictate how you should assuage your guilt. Do you have a lot of it? She bit his good shoulder. You're about to find out. She toppled them both off the bench and onto the mat. Well, ouch. I take it guilt doesn't bring out your gentler side.

The two forms became intermingled as they struggled and writhed at the brink; then, with the slowness of a great tree that has been cut through at the root, they toppled into the Chasm and disappeared.

During the course of his reign, the amir experienced over forty uprisings against his government. Had these been better coordinated or come all at once, Abdur Rahman would have undoubtedly been toppled. One of the amir's political strengths was that he aimed his attacks at specific targets and thereby kept conflict from spreading too widely against him at any one time.

when people stop believing in their institutions, the government often gets toppled.