A contemporary chronicler opined (in the annal for 1011) that 'all those disasters befell us through bad policy (unraeligdas)'.
In this sense the divorce was treated as a misfortune that befell the entire family, and they had to be close to get through it.
Many industrialists found it almost impossible to concede that harm befell their employees as a direct consequence of their employment.
Several downtown buildings collapsed as flood waters ate away at their rotting foundations, and no doubt a similar fate befell a number of cheaply built houses of the poorer refugees.
Dewey did not predict the changes that befell his progressive colleagues so soon after his departure.
In many cases, they badly miscalculated and disaster befell them.
He referred to corruption, which was part of the tragedy which befell the nation.
We cannot say that tonight because of the tragedy which befell us recently.
