Cellphone distraction may have played a role in a tragedy that befell one Florida family.
Ms Gallmann's animal-conservation crusade grew out of the terrible events that befell her family.
The same penalty befell Nico Rosberg after he made an illegal manoeuvre exiting the pit lane.
Complete, sickening silence befell the stadium, as it always does when a play like that occurs.
The Greek tragedy that befell Greece and its bonds has, thus, now become a Cypriot bank tragedy.
Mr Carr's biography of Miles Davis reveals that a similar fate almost befell that later jazz trumpeter.
Will they desert-and doom Marsh to the fate that befell Arthur Andersen after it got into legal trouble?
Yet this was the fate that befell Dickens himself, according to the acting Dean of Rochester Philip Hesketh.
He was too popular for Stalin to arrest or execute, a fate that befell some of his associates.
Neither her birth in a poor neighbourhood of Nanterre nor the serious accident that befell her as a child.
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These fractions apply whether or not there was any evidence you had been drinking before these disasters befell you.
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But no amount of planning could have prevented the bad luck that befell the Metropark hotel group last week.
Of course we were completely blameless in the hideous tragedy that befell us.
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Without a tighter policy, Poland could eventually be forced into the kind of devaluation that befell the Czech Republic.
The heaviest fighting befell the flashpoints of Damascus and its suburbs, as well as Aleppo, a city already in ruins.
Just last winter a calamity of a different kind than I'd experienced all those years ago in Utah befell me.
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On top of that, the state ran out of money to issue refunds, a fate that also befell the Missouri Department of Revenue.
He demonstrated that government could protect seniors from the poverty that befell most of them in their final years by creating Social Security.
Who would have believed just one week before it all hit the fan that AIG could ever face the financial disaster that befell it?
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Mr Summers and Mr Geithner were deeply involved in dealing with the disasters that befell Mexico, East Asia, Russia and Latin America during that time.
There were only a handful of Australian fans watching, though the Barmy Army were in full force lapping up every misfortune that befell the hosts.
This is what befell Steve Spagnuolo, late of the St.
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Maktoob made a certain sense to me, for I had long wished to see the story of what befell me written down, formed into a coherent narrative.
Off-spinner Swann, who finished with figures of 0-96 from 23 overs, was clouted for two sixes in one over and the same fate befell Collingwood soon afterwards.
What these towns fear most is the fate that befell Dudley, a Midlands town, whose centre was reduced instantly to near-derelict status when a big mall opened nearby.
With some success among Arabs and Muslims, Sudan has portrayed itself as victim of a Western plot to make it surrender sovereignty the sort of calamity that befell Iraq.
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Mark Foster failed to achieve the qualification mark in the 50m butterfly despite touching first in 24.72 secs, while the same fate befell Christopher Cozens in the 100m freestyle.
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Bad headlines, yes, but they have not led to a crisis of confidence in the leadership of Chief Executive John Browne such as befell BP's rival Royal Dutch Shell in 2004.
But the regulators all acknowledged that the financial system is still exposed to risk, and Steel said there was no guarantee against future problems like the one that befell Bear Stearns.
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