(1) Even one destroyed life – and a 20-year sentence for a 39-year old filmmaker surely means the cruellest of all individual punishments – will lead to an even greater punishment and retaliation that may befall on the whole country.
(2) How could I have imagined the fate that would befall this precious boy?
(3) He wrote in his last book, The Unfinished Life: An Odyssey of Love and Cancer , of deliberately trying to compress what should have been long leisurely years of fatherhood into a few months: one daughter needing to understand where he got his beliefs and ideas, while the other "asked me to write down every likely eventuality that might befall her, and supply a satisfactory answer", as if to keep him always by her side.
(4) Perhaps less obvious, this knowledge is essential to recognize and effectively support claims for workers' compensation, claims that may be the only means of redress for the tragic socioeconomic difficulties befalling those who are occupationally impaired.
(5) And only by moving to this level do we avoid the vicious circularity that could befall the use of recursive systems.
(6) This may befall the radiologist who is asked to provide thrombolytic treatment in a heparinized patient.
(7) A similar fate befalls B&Q's Christmas ad, which opts for a fey, irritating cover version of Our House by another breathy chanteuse.
(8) His was the third suspicious death in the past five years to befall a businessman from the former USSR in the affluent crescent of suburbia just beyond the M25 in Surrey and Berkshire.
(9) Still a 14-year-old child, he was then forced to become a military conscript – a fate that normally befalls Eritreans in their last year of school, and continues for the rest of their life.
(10) It now befalls president-elect Buhari to govern in a democratic spirit, strengthening public institutions and ensuring that forthcoming elections at local or parliamentary level do not revert to the old ways.
(11) Renal cell carcinoma, which generally arises at a later age, may befall the patient who is successfully treated for the tumors that occurred earlier.
(12) The aspiration or ingestion of a foreign body into the upper aerodigestive tract is a common accident that befalls children and adults alike.
(13) You have to learn to put one foot in front of the other … You also have to look at what accidents might befall you … You have to have stamina because it could be a long route.” Barnier is from the Savoy Alps, the most mountainous region of France.
(14) "); the idea that we should be held to account, as feminists, for every possible ill that could befall the modern woman ("There's a whole generation of people who've confused 'feminism' with 'anything to do with women'") – all of that is just hassle in disguise.
(15) • This latest crisis to befall Rakhine state, which has seen 200 killed and 115,000 displaced – most of them Rohingya – tests Burma's recent transition to democracy and its commitment to establishing full human rights for those within its borders.
(16) Nigeria in my experience has never been so divided, so polarised by an unthinking government hell-bent on ruling and stealing for ever whatever befalls the country.
(17) A third - all the way from New Zealand - pronounced: "Another catastrophe befalls the country."
(18) Because of the complexity of the interactions that befall monocytes during an inflammatory response, it seems likely that expression of adhesion receptors on monocytes would be precisely regulated.
(19) The belongings were supposed to be removed as quickly as possible, so that newcomers to the camp would not suspect the fate that was about to befall them.
(20) Ian Ayre, the Liverpool managing director, cancelled a scheduled four-day trip to the Far East and Australia, where he was going to promote the club's pre-season tour, to deal with the latest controversy to befall the 26-year-old.
Befell
Definition:
(imp.) of Befall
Example Sentences:
(1) Such expeditions sometimes meet the fate that befell Louis XVI's flight to Varennes: they can be fatally ruined by long lunches.
(2) No mention either this week, of a boat reportedly heading to Christmas Island two days ago , nor what befell the 50 people on board.
(3) The tragedy that befell Khyra Ishaq is hard to take.
(4) No word yet as to exactly what befell the Dutchman but he was suffering for several kiolmetres and lagging badly.
(5) That fate befell Manchester City youth player James Tandy in 2004 when a refreshed Joey Barton mistook his eyelids for a cinderbox and eased a cigar into both of them.
(6) He has managed to hold on to his seat in Exeter, avoiding the defeats that befell other Labour MPs in the south outside London.
(7) Illness and agony befell Emile and Philomène, but an estimated 1,400 children have been orphaned as a result of either one or two parents dying from Ebola.
(8) It’s a fate that also befell Leslie Chew last year, who was arrested and charged with “sedition” over the content of his cartoon strip, called Demon-cratic Singapore .
(9) Weekend Update seems to be finding a mid-level groove – nowhere near its high point, but not at the depths that befell the writing after Seth Meyers and his team left the show.
(10) Vigilance on the part of the workers in the field, in general, protects from the disasters that befell Thomas Edison's laboratory assistant.
(11) ( A similar fate befell Torre David in Caracas , which has now been informally occupied.)
(12) What it saves is the lifetime cost of a lost generation, saving benefits, a spike in crime, rough sleeping, mental illness and all that befell the school-leavers of the early 1980s.
(13) Ma and his advisers have been carefully studying the Facebook IPO in the hopes of avoiding the pitfalls that befell the share sale.
(14) The first thing to note is that Rudd’s economic management did not, in fact, save Australia from the fate that befell other countries.
(15) Alluding to concerns about growing sectarianism in the region, Nasrallah said there would be "dangerous retribution" if any harm befell the historic Sayyida Zeinab Shia shrine near Damascus.
(16) Lib Dem activists watched their work unravel as similar fates befell the party in Manchester, Leeds, Bolton, Stoke, Telford, Newcastle and Clegg's adopted home city of Sheffield, where he is an MP.
(17) Fred Upton, chairman of the energy and commerce committee, said the tragedy that befell Lovelace and others was worsened by the fact that it seemed to be preventable.
(18) Like a lot of what befell Young, it could only have happened to a woman.
(19) At the mention of Mr Wickham's name, silence befell the room.
(20) The BBC said the drama would "show the Nativity from a fresh viewpoint, highlighting how seemingly ordinary people reacted to the extraordinary and miraculous events that befell them".