Roads skirt walled villages with castles fit for Sleeping Beauty, and picture-perfect towns tumble down to lakesides where sailboats bob in the sunset in search of the Frog Prince.
Today, the Dodecanese Islands of Greece are a picture of serenity: whitewashed villages tumble down hillsides to boat-filled harbours surrounded by the clear waters of the Aegean.
People were running, they were terrified, they were scared and with good reason because the houses, already ruined, - the walls that were still left standing - were starting to tumble down on top of the road and so people were simply running away.
The banking system was not functioning correctly and we had to either fiscally stimulate the economy or watch the economy tumble further and further down in a self-sustaining downward spiral, that would horribly damage hundreds of millions of people.
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Architect Sir Norman Foster elegantly combined a refurbished British-era military structure surrounded by manicured green lawns with curved, metal-clad modern hotel buildings and villas that tumble down a hillside to the South China Sea.
Only a month ago, the only argument among nearly all journalists, pundits and leftwing politicians was whether the U.S. economy would stop at a recession or tumble all the way down the tubes to a 1930s-style depression.
Even in the mid-1980s, few pundits expected the entire edifice to tumble down, and fewer still predicted that, a decade on, Russia would be holding regular and reasonably fair elections, amid a cacophony of self-expression from media and politicians alike.
Jasper town is nestled in the middle of the national park, where icy glaciers tumble down towering rocky peaks and melt to form wild, white water-choked rivers that cut through pine-filled valleys.
While in the December 1998 11434 was broken as the Dow made its way up the dot-com bubble, in September 2008 it was broken as it was about to tumble down the busted housing bubble.
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This suggests that interest rates are likelier to come down in early 2009, after which consumer-price inflation is forecast to tumble, than later this year, when it will be close to its expected peak of 5%.
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