You expect harm to befall them, like a plague, but, for once, it stays its hand.
"Many believe that some calamity will befall us, " says Devender Kumar Gupta, a New Delhi resident.
This enables a bank to get a feel for what might befall it in future.
The warnings of what will befall our military and country as a result are beginning to accumulate.
We are a safe community, and to have a tragedy befall us like this is just horrendous.
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There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
On December 7, 1941, our Nation suffered one of the most devastating attacks ever to befall the American people.
The disaster is the latest to befall the country of about 9 million people, roughly the size of Maryland.
It is not inhabited by exemplars of wisdom and virtue transcending the human frailties that befall the rest of us.
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Having a joint account is a great way to give each other a shared emergency cushion should disaster befall you.
When the sales vice president's job at Entronics becomes open, mysterious disasters befall Jason's competitors, and he gets the promotion.
Keen is on weaker ground when claiming that some sort of Orwellian catastrophe is set to befall humanity because of over-sharing.
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The doctors will get squeezed but the real misfortunate will befall patients.
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According to Burden, the typical problems that befall senators in their aspirations for the White House might not be so pronounced this year.
Well, under the current laws of war, that is exactly what can befall a belligerent or combatant who doesn't fall into legal POW status.
Mr Milosz once wrote that exile is the worst fate that may befall a poet, since poetry cannot live without its roots in native speech.
Of course, as the number of players shrinks to just a few, there is a temptation for them to cause accidents to befall the others.
We could never imagine that such a fate would befall her...
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The ugly ducklings amongst us are often devout of the opportunities that befall the beautiful and, therefore, comparatively are more prone to end up in crime.
And that if executed properly, with a little of the luck that seems to befall all good documentaries, it had the potential to profoundly affect people.
The biggest tragedy ever to befall the club was the Munich Air Disaster, they allowed the clubs main sponsor to commercialise the deaths of these young men.
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This was once a scheme of about 30, 000 houses, now reduced to 12, 500 by demolition, a fate about to befall the houses viewed by the Tory leader.
Thirdly, the approach that Mr Cameron is taking is based not on whim, but on hard evidence of what will befall the party if it fails to change.
"We believe any broker could befall the fate of Bear, which had no more credit exposure issues than the other four, " says David Trone, an analyst with Fox-Pitt Kelton.
In an interview, he reveals for the first time that he has even written a letter to the Disney board, recommending a successor should some bad fate befall Eisner himself.
He was not inside for long enough to prove anything much except perhaps the dangers that befall a prime minister who chooses to rule through a coterie instead of a cabinet.
For this treatment to befall that group of Americans who, by their own lights, got the decade mostly right to be so reviled and so vindicated inflicted a kind of painful pleasure.
One highlight of the festival was Terra Nova, a performance by CREW. I went in without a clear picture of what was to befall me, which was the perfect approach.
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Big Green--the regulatory ecological complex that tells the rest of us exactly what woe will befall us if we don't do just as we're told--isn't going to like this one bit.
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