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fall on

Verb

Meaning

To experience; to suffer; to fall upon.
With the rise of the Internet, some media fell on hard times.

To be assigned to; to acquire a new responsibility, duty or burden.
This decision is important, and it falls on you to make it.

(of a holiday or event) To occur on a particular day.
The first day of spring this year will fall on a Tuesday.

Of the eyes or gaze: to alight upon.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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According to Dio Cassius, a leap day was inserted in 41 BC to ensure that the first market day of 40 BC did not fall on 1 January, which implies that the old 8-day cycle was not immediately affected by the Julian reform. Source: Internet

After Mussolini's fall on 25 July 1943, he was arrested by the Carabinieri as he left the king's private residence in Rome and subsequently imprisoned on Campo Imperatore by Carabinieri forces. Source: Internet

Additionally, the laws of Shabbat override those of Hoshana Rabbah, so that if Hoshana Rabbah were to fall on Shabbat certain rituals that are a part of the Hoshana Rabbah service (such as carrying willows, which is a form of work) could not be performed. Source: Internet

All meantone temperaments fall on the syntonic temperament 's tuning continuum, citation and as such are "syntonic tunings". Source: Internet

Acts 5:15 reports that "people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter's shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by." Source: Internet

Adler used to recount that when teaching Brando, she had instructed the class to act like chickens, and added that a nuclear bomb was about to fall on them. Source: Internet

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