While Lopes had a monster series with three homers and seven RBIs and Bill Russell had eleven hits, the Dodgers ' power hitters lack of production and the Dodgers shoddy defense was their downfall.

After the downfall of the second Labour government, the 1931 General Election was held.

Because the leadership of the minority government had made the vote on the budget vote a " vote of confidence " in the minority government, the defeat of the Disraeli budget was a " vote of no confidence " in the minority government and meant the downfall of the minority government.

Following the downfall of the Tory / Conservative minority government under Lord Derby in December 1852, Lord Aberdeen formed a new government from the coalition of Free Traders, Peelites and Whigs that had voted no confidence in the minority government.

However the Eastern Question and the resulting Crimean War proved to be the downfall of his government.

It was this last project that was to sow the seeds that led to the downfall of the St-Laurent government.

* 1916 – Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous " stupidity or treason " speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.

The period was marked by political anxiety, as students and workers alike rebelled against the state in May 1968, nearly causing the downfall of the French government.

Therefore, while the activities of the ' popular church ' contributed to the success of the Sandinista revolution, the hierarchy's opposition was a major factor in the downfall of the revolutionary government.

* November 1 – Paul Miliukov delivers the famous " stupidity or treason " speech in the Russian State Duma, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.

This diplomatic clash leading to several waves of protest, prompted the downfall of the Portuguese government.

The National Union of Mineworkers won its case but the energy shortages and the resulting breakdown of domestic consensus contributed to the eventual downfall of his government.

In the 1950s he played a major role in the downfall of Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, thus ending his " witch-hunt " for Communist spies within the U. S. government.

Supporters of the campaign have argued that the action brought to an end the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo's Albanian population, and that the bombing campaign hastened ( or caused ) the downfall of Slobodan Milošević's government, which they saw as responsible for the international isolation of Yugoslavia, many war crimes, and gross human rights violations.

* 1959: Joseph Martin and Philip Santora, New York Daily News, " for their exclusive series of articles disclosing the brutality of the Batista government in Cuba long before its downfall and forecasting the triumph of the Cuban revolution party led by Fidel Castro.

So while everywhere the Gaelic recovery of lost territories was remarkable, there was never any serious attempt made to unite Gaelic Ireland or to bring about the downfall of the English government in Ireland and the end of the colony.

It finally collapsed in 33 / 32 BC, after the downfall of Lepidus, leading to the Final war of the Roman Republic and the total collapse of republican government.

Turned down by South Africa for the post of Governor General ( the country was holding out for a cabinet minister or member of the royal family ) and snubbed by Winston Churchill on his assumption of the post of Under-Secretary for the Colonies — on one occasion he stormed into Churchill's office and told him that he " expected to be treated like a gentleman "— a thwarted Wood voted for the downfall of Lloyd George's government and became President of the Board of Education under Andrew Bonar Law in 1922.

After the downfall of the military dictatorship and restoration of democracy in 1983, Kirchner became a public officer in the provincial government.

In 1747 a bribery and corruption scandal ( involving two members of parliament for Chippenham ) led to the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole's government.

By the time of her father ’ s downfall, Cradock had already left the family and set up her own home with her first husband ; she married four times, twice bigamously.

At the time of Papen ′ s appointment, Schleicher boasted that " I ′ m not the soul of the cabinet, but I am perhaps its will " The German historian Eberhard Kolb wrote of Schleicher ′ s " key role " in the downfall of not only Brüning, but also the Weimar republic, for by bringing down Brüning Schleicher unintentionally and quite unnecessarily set off a series of events that would to led directly to the Third Reich.

Having set the stage for Price's downfall, he bribes Sarah to arrange for Price's fiancee to find the two of them having sex shortly before the report of the MIRAS repeal airs.

After the downfall of Benito Mussolini and the occupation of Italy by Nazi Germany, Karl Hass was sent to Rome to set up a network of radio operators and to organize saboteurs behind the invading Allied lines.

Webster clashed with Tyndall's replacement John Kingsley Read and the clash set in motion Kingsley Read's downfall, allowing Tyndall to return to the leadership.

Although CalPERS " was alerted by its advisers in December 2000 about the serious and potentially embarrassing conflicts inherent in one of a web of private partnerships set up by Enron's chief financial officer, Andrew S. Fastow ", it later denied that it could have taken actions to prevent Enron's downfall.

In the broader sense, something like the downfall of Nazi Germany was almost certainly inevitable in the long run, though the specific set of events that lead to the history Ned knows, and in which he grew up, mean that he needs those events to happen in the way recorded.

Edward's downfall came when his wife Isabella of France and her baronial lover Roger Mortimer set out to depose the king with the help of Henry, Earl of Lancaster, brother of the executed Earl Thomas.

At the Party Conference in October, when the balance set after General Secretary Ştefan Foriş ' downfall came to be questioned, Luca made his voice heard in opposition to Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's " internal wing ", and proposed that the latter be kept as nominal leader ( with Pauker taking over the party executive ); Gheorghiu-Dej, who managed to obtain Joseph Stalin's approval through the intervention of Emil Bodnăraş, became focused on maneuvering against the rival faction.

A journal of his experiences, starting at the northern shore of Sicily, just before the Allies first set foot on the mainland at the southern tip of Italy in September 1943, through the Salerno and Anzio landings, then passing to the Normandy landings, Operation Market Garden, the Rhine crossing, and the final downfall of the Nazi empire.

Harlock, along with the Tokargans who are ashamed of their role in Earth's downfall set out to lead a resistance against the aliens and adopts the fighting strategy of ancient marauders.

* Maria Makiling features significantly in Karen Francisco's novel " Naermyth ", a fantasy adventure novel set in a post-apocalyptic Philippines, where creatures of lore, folktales and the once-mythical waged a war that led to the human race's downfall.

Politics then take centre stage as Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, plans Cromwell's downfall by playing on Henry's infatuation with his young niece, Catherine Howard.

Following the February 1794 recall of Hébertist deputy Jean-Baptiste Carrier from Nantes, where he had been engaged in a mass executions to suppress the Vendéen revolts, the Hébertists attempted to stage a popular revolt, hoping to mimic that which had led to the downfall of the Girondins.

Carr expanded on this thesis of " progress " being an unstoppable force in September 1978 when he stated: " I think we have to consider seriously the hypothesis that the world revolution of which Bolshevik revolution was the first stage, and which will complete the downfall of capitalism, will prove to be the revolt of the colonial peoples against capitalism in the guise of imperialism ".

As Jacques Revel notes, the success of the Annales School, especially its use of social structures as explanatory forces contained the seeds of its own downfall, for there is " no longer any implicit consensus on which to base the unity of the social, identified with the real.

Atë, Greek for ' ruin, folly, delusion ', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his / her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his / her death or downfall.

Lilith as serpent then proceeds to trick Eve into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge and in this way is responsible for the downfall of all of mankind.

It is thought that Shakespeare never read Gesta Danorum, and instead had access to an auxiliary version of the tale describing the downfall of the Prince of Denmark, whose real name-Amleth-was used in anagram by Shakespeare for Hamlet.

Atë, ancient Greek for " ruin, folly, delusion ," is the action performed by the hero or heroine, usually because of his or her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his or her death or downfall.

Kate Norgate, for example, argued that John's downfall had been due not to his failure in war or strategy, but due to his " almost superhuman wickedness ", whilst James Ramsay blamed John's family background and his cruel personality for his downfall.

Many point to the lack of a bullpen for their downfall, as the Brewers had the lead in five of the seven games.

Probably the biggest reason for the Brewers defeat was the downfall of their starting pitching.

For the Neoplatonist they also formed a raw material for the writing of more systematic treatises in which were given arguments and means by which to struggle against some defect ( such as anger, envy, gossip, flattery ) or to overcome some difficult circumstance ( such as a mourning, an exile, downfall, disgrace ).

This is generally the most unstable point of sail, but the easiest for a novice to grasp conceptually, making it a common downfall for beginners.

After the downfall of the Kamakura Shogunate, certain conditions had to be met in order for a warlord to be bestowed the title of shogun.

When Bob Kohler asked for clothes and money to help the homeless youth who had participated in the riots, many of whom slept in Christopher Park or Sheridan Square, the response was a discussion on the downfall of capitalism.

Their main downfall would be Sony's stubborn resistance to supporting the ubiquitous MP3 codec in their early players and many users found it frustrating to convert their MP3 music collection to ATRAC3 for use on the Network Walkman, while Apple's iPod supported MP3 out of the box and came with the iTunes software.

Its founding members were the United Kingdom, Austrian Empire, Russian Empire and Kingdom of Prussia, the members of the Quadruple Alliance responsible for the downfall of the First French Empire ; in time France became established as a fifth member of the concert.

Yet in truth she discovered that a race was springing from Trojan blood to overthrow some day these Tyrian towers — a people late regem belloque superbum — kings of broad realms and proud in war who would come forth for Libya's downfall.

His affair with Queen Caroline Matilda (“ Caroline Mathilde ”) caused scandal, especially after the birth of a daughter, Princess Louise Augusta, and was the catalyst for the intrigues and power play that caused his downfall and dramatic death.

This proved to be his downfall, for out of anger, Postumus ' army mutinied and murdered him.

Although the Carabinieri assisted in the suppression of opposition during the rule of Benito Mussolini, they were also responsible for his downfall and many units were disbanded by Nazi Germany, which resulted in large numbers of Carabinieri joining the Italian resistance movement.

It is long since I saw you ; but as I see you now you are much more terrible, for I see you brandishing the downfall of my country.

In early 2007, the knitted monkey and Johnny Vegas reappeared in an advert for PG Tips tea, which included a reference to ITV Digital's downfall.

For the rest of his life, Brandt remained suspicious that his fellow Social Democrat ( and longtime rival ) Herbert Wehner had been scheming for Brandt's downfall.