Sentences with fall from grace
fall from grace
F f - But the row highlighted the fall from grace of the ethnically diverse women Sarkozy once promoted but later cast aside, who are now rebelling. The former young sports minister, Rama Yade, outspoken and hugely popular, has not only quit the government: she has left Sarkozy's party.
- The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a European parliament seat, considered a consolation prize.
- We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice.
- He lacked the manly graces.
- It was only through the dean's grace that I wasn't expelled from school.
- He was saved by an act of grace from the governor.
- The life insurance premium is due today, but we have 31 days' grace before the policy lapses.
- The Christian graces.
- The grace to perform a duty.
- Grandfather will now say grace.
- Many fine paintings graced the rooms of the house.
- To grace an occasion with one's presence.
- But for the grace of God, the brick that just fell from the roof would have hit me on the head!
- By the grace of God, I won't have to deal with tax returns for another year.
- He fell from grace when the boss found out he had lied.
- Would you have the grace to help, please?
- It is a wonder that I have managed to stay in her good graces this long.
- He apologized, but did so with bad grace.
- She took on the extra work with good grace.