And the characters are so superficial that we hardly care which of these different fates may befall them. |
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The worst economic calamity to befall a family, and especially women and children, is divorce. |
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First he had a dream in the night, which foreshowed him truly the evils that were about to befall him in the person of his son. |
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The forms of common worship are sufficient to all the joys and sorrows that befall us in this vale of tears. |
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There are many 19 th-century illustrations of the disastrous possibilities that could befall a whaling boat at close quarters with a whale. |
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We read regularly about the horrors that can befall our planet if we upset the fine ecological balance. |
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Jeannie ends up as a servant in a great house, where various things befall her. |
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Was that old woman she met earlier telling the truth, and that she really was warning Alli of a possible danger that could befall her? |
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Summoning emergency help should an injury befall a walker would have been almost impossible. |
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The theft had been the latest in a series of misfortunes to befall the memorial garden. |
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Mrs. Winchester believed ill would befall her if she ever stopped altering her sprawling mansion. |
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She was so young as to not understand the ink her name was written in, and unconscious of it, and all that was to befall her. |
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And at this point you maybe thinking that collapses are something that befall only Polynesians and Native Americans, we Europeans would surely never make such mistakes. |
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Our holy father had been moved by his concern for the greatest catastrophe to befall humankind, namely sin. |
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Such a dispiriting fate should not befall Lawrie on this occasion. |
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Know this: that you cannot go your own way without knowing of the sin that is to befall you. |
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And if they cease not from what they say, verily, a painful torment will befall the disbelievers among them. |
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Information about the neurologic and psychological changes that may befall young TBI victims is scarce. |
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Her daily missives chronicle the longing and insecurity that often befall long-distance relationships and eventual breakups. |
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Winston Churchill said that no fate is destined to inevitably befall us, except where we do nothing to prevent it. |
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The same fate may befall the Shazam, a power-pop trio from Nashville that conjures up buoyantly tuneful rock and roll. |
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I cannot leave the House without saying how duplicitous it is about the tragedy that may befall India and Pakistan. |
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As for what will befall Actual Louis in this latest skirmish in the Great X Factor Wars, only time will show. |
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After all, the greatest disasters that ever befall most urban communities move more slowly than a hurricane. |
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Other comments suggested that some physical harm would befall the complainant. |
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This is the first thing you need to do in order to deal with the disabilities that may eventually befall your partner. |
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One of the saddest fates that can befall a special library is to have it sink into being merely a collection of books. |
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A strain of fatalism runs through many of the world's religions and beliefs, conditioning people to accept passively whatever may befall them. |
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It would befall to governments to ensure that appropriate mechanisms are in place to protect patient confidentiality and privacy. |
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Failure to protect a child from harm is perhaps the greatest shame that can befall an Aboriginal family. |
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Women are told of the misfortunes that may befall them should they behave improperly towards their husband. |
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The most frivolous disaster which could befall himself would occasion a more real disturbance. |
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The recurrent problems continue unchecked under his stewardship, and he has not taken the lead in response to other disasters that befall the city. |
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Floods that swept the South Russian region of Krasnodar over the weekend are the latest disaster to befall the country. |
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The very best of the various consequences that might befall us would be the prolonged hardship and misery of an indefinite stay in a bleak prison camp. |
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These two characters have, one feels, an offstage life during which they rely on each other's support for the next vicissitude that is to befall them. |
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This is proposed to be done by moving necessary amendment in this befall to the Finance Bill. |
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Northern Rock's problems proved to be an early indication of the troubles that would soon befall other banks and financial institutions. |
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In the latest violence-related controversy to befall the league, the Minnesota Vikings running back was indicted by a grand jury on Thursday, on a charge of causing injury to a child. |
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There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. |
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The same tragedy must not befall the people in Darfur or elsewhere. |
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It should be noted that the decree on END does not eliminate the possibility that the Armed Forces will be assigned to police missions, though the 'country will watch to see that this type of mission does not befall it. |
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There were no apparent clues to the tragedy that was about to befall us. |
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Should the same fate befall Stjarnan on Saturday, they can at least take comfort from the fact that having completed 22 matches compared to the 18 played by Happy Valley, their failure will have been more epic. |
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As long as we fail to act decisively where decisive action is required, it is hypocritical to say to nations clashing on the ground that they are responsible for the tragedies which befall them. |
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There are, second, the rights to be protected against harms which befall children because of their childlike vulnerability and whose particular harmfulness is a function of a fact that they befall children. |
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I fear that the same fate that has befallen our foreign and security policy as a whole, and which has been discussed so many times, will also befall this code of conduct. |
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It's unclear quite how many unfortunate incidents with giant body parts need to befall Miley before she scales things back to less perilous proportions, but we are surely nearing critical mass. |
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Great harm would befall the United Nations if some States were to use such a precedent to push their viewpoint on other controversial issues through a vote rather than through the patient development of a consensus. |
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Legend maintains that should the ravens ever leave the Tower, the White Tower will fall and disaster will befall the kingdom. |
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But Swank was more concerned about her white, ruffled cocktail dress, which suffered one of the worst tragedies that can befall an actress about to hit the red carpet. |
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The drought was only one of many hardships to befall the small country. |
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