The storm, called Beta, sent relentless heavy rains over the region, ripping off roofs, toppling trees and flooding neighborhoods. Heavy rain in Honduras caused four rivers to overflow and damaged crops. We are facing serious danger from the rain, ... We are staying on alert in nearly every part of the nation.
Quotes about toppling (10 Quotes)
The toppling crags of Duty scaled; Are close upon the shining table-lands; To which our God Himself is moon and sun.
Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down -- toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher praised the pontiff's role in toppling communism. Millions owe him their freedom and self-respect. The whole world is inspired by his example, ... His life was a long struggle against the lies employed to excuse evil. By combating the falsehoods of communism and proclaiming the true dignity of the individual, his was the moral force behind victory in the Cold War.
Basically, the calendar is really driving events ... the armed groups bent on toppling him don't want him to get to the elections.
The insurgents are Baathists and Sunnis in Iraq who have as their goal a separate and distinct one of toppling the government that is there and creating their own.
We are in favor of elections and we are in favor of toppling the government but we will not join the extreme right in toppling the government over the peace process, ... We don't want to punish the government for the pullout from Gaza and I don't think we should hitch a ride on the extreme Right.
It is not possible for me to explain just how wonderful it is to see this house that George Exxon Bush and the moral majority built on the sand come toppling down.
A Hair's Breadth In Burma there is a huge rock that balances on the edge of a cliff, kept from toppling, they say, by one hair plucked from Buddha's beard. Monks rise early to climb the steep, jagged path to view this miracle as the sun begins its day shi.
This body, the United States Congress, was united, Republicans and Democrats alike, in taking that action, toppling the Taliban government, and working to try and root out al Qaeda and find Osama bin Laden.