Befalling

For all the symptoms which I describe as befalling to this man I refer to want of food. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As for a new monetary system, I was estimating that the $ would be replaced with the Amero around 2012-2015, but with the current dilemma befalling the USA I can see where it could be here as early as late 2009-2010. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I don't know of any Paris Hilton-like scandals "befalling" her. ❋ Papabear (2008)

The song talks about oppression, being trodden upon, and injustice; most people connect that (as Stevie Wonder did) to civil rights, Vietnam, apartheid, Watergate, global starvation, etc., but as my two teachers affirmed, we forget the injustices that are befalling our students and teachers in schools across America. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was not saying anything about befalling a recent calamity and trying to gather bus fare back to the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pakistan's dictators played the sectarian game and officially declared Ahmadiyya Muslims as non-Muslims, and many Muslims bought this to the extent that anything befalling these Ahmadies was OK. ❋ Mike Ghouse (2011)

But those same complaintsappear to befalling on friendlier ears this time around. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Duncan would reduce punishment for most schools, leaving them off the hook and perhaps enabling the suburbs to separate even more from the consequences befalling low-income urban and rural areas. ❋ Valerie Strauss (2011)

The kaleidoscope of calamity befalling the city was as art to the artificial eye of the bronze demon who approached the museum steadily, calculating the perfect words with which to greet the dinosaur who stared at him with such confusion and fear. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like the treatment befalling anyone who showed up at a Bush event wearing the wrong tee shirt or having the wrong bumpersticker on their car? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The best we can do is to incapacitate the killers and honor the memories of those five victims, including those dear children, in a living, breathing, ongoing way by doing our utmost to prevent similar tragedies from befalling others. ❋ Mark Osler (2011)

Today, Just My Imagination was the chosen tune and as the Temptations latest opus revolved on its never-ending loop, it echoed round our flat and wormed into my subconscious causing me to pick at my chips and barely register what mishaps were befalling Hoss and Little Joe on the Ponderosa ranch. ❋ Unknown (2011)