fall from power

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fall from power

Fig. to go out of power; to go out of office. The dictator fell from power after the riots. Every ruler will fall from power sooner or later.

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The case took two years to come to trial, bogged down in South African political debate in the shadow of former president Thabo Mbeki's fall from power. SAfrica gripped by bribes, murder and betrayal in top cop's trial by AFP / AFP Global Edition The former king has ventured outside Nepal for the first time since his plan to rule the country with the help of the army in 2005 backfired, leading to his fall from power. Former king Gyanendra wants to continue to live in Nepal by Asian News International This drama charts the Prime Minister's fall from power, including the show-stopping resignation speech by her chancellor Geoffrey Howe, which she saw as the ultimate act of betrayal. What to WATCH by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)			fall afoul of fall all over fall apart fall asleep fall at fall away fall away toward fall back fall back on fall below fall beneath fall between fall between two stools fall by fall by the wayside fall down fall down on fall down on the job fall flat fall flat on face fall for fall for hook, line and sinker fall foul of fall from fall from grace fall from power fall head over heels fall head over heels in love fall heir to fall ill fall in fall in a heap fall in line fall in love fall in on fall in place fall in with fall into a trap fall into clutches fall into decay fall into disfavor fall into disgrace fall into disuse fall into hands fall into lap fall into line fall into place fall into the trap of fall into the wrong hands fall off fall off off the radar			fall flat on face fall flat on face fall flat on face fall flat on face fall flat on face fall flat on face fall for fall for fall for fall for fall for fall for hook, line and sinker Fall forward fall foul fall foul fall foul fall foul fall foul of fall foul of fall from fall from grace fall from grace fall from grace fall from grace fall from grace fall from grace Fall from height Fall from height Fall from height Fall from Paradise fall from power fall from repute Fall Gelb fall guy fall guys fall head over heels fall head over heels in love fall heir to fall heir to Fall herring fall ill fall ill fall in fall in fall in fall in fall in fall in a heap fall in line fall in line fall in line fall in line fall in line fall in love fall in love fall in love fall in on fall in place fall in the drink fall in with fall in with

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