fall on
Example Sentences
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Ideas stand or fall on their merits.
The protest happened to fall on a weekend off.
From Salon
Farke has said he will not pick players on the back of public pressure and, although everyone will have views about who they would select or not, any manager - successful or not - must always stand or fall on his own decisions with individual player choice, team shape and identity.
From BBC
Further - more temporary - snow will fall on Monday in the Highlands as rain spreads in across the UK with milder prevailing southwesterly winds.
From BBC
But Lyons said he was "not prepared to put more burden" on workers and said revenue raising would "fall on the backs of the same people... already getting hammered".
From BBC
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