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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.
That was the tragic end that befell a man who, according to his friends, was intelligent and articulate, albeit that he had strong idiosyncratic views.
I, too, deplore the untimely fate which befell the imaginative attempt to get that surrender policy under way.
I believe that the urbanization of our population and our country was the greatest misfortune that befell us since the last war.
It was something of a catastrophe that befell the farmers and landowners in that part of the country.
Obviously the manufacturers were eager to realise their stock, lest worse things befell them.
Unfortunately, he is still suffering from the effects of the accident which befell him last year, and is not yet fit to travel.
It is as natural that they should seek to ensure that such a disaster as befell their loved ones should not recur.
