Sentence examples for Collapse of power from inspiring English sources

McGuinness is due to hold press briefings in Washington tomorrow, outlining Sinn Fein's response to the imminent collapse of power- sharing in Belfast.

The remarkable Kathryn Hunter takes up residence at Home, Manchester in The Emperor, playing all the characters in a story of the collapse of power in Haile Selassie's Ethiopia.

Cameron established a judge-led inquiry on Thursday into the operation of the scheme to prevent Northern Ireland's first minister Peter Robinson from resigning thus triggering the collapse of power sharing.

As in Weimar Berlin, or Moscow and St Petersburg in the 1990s, or indeed like Paris itself in the 1950s, the collapse of power drew a picturesque crowd seeking social, artistic and financial opportunities.From the Duke of Wellington down, the victors and their hangers-on came to spend their money on high and low adventures.

Japan has set power-saving targets during the peak summer season to avoid a wider collapse of power grids.

But after the collapse of power-sharing, and now this seismic election result, I'm not so sure.

And so the former Northern Ireland secretary, Owen Paterson, tweeted that "The collapse of power-sharing in Northern Ireland shows the Good Friday Agreement has outlived its use".

From the collapse of power-sharing in 1974 to its stuttering resumption in Gordon Brown's "second Good Friday" in 2009, London's attempt to bring peace to Northern Ireland has demonstrated the maxim that no corner of the British empire is ruled so ineptly as one that is closest to hand.

So, by starting a chain reaction now that may lead to the ultimate collapse of power-sharing and devolution, unionists put at risk a carefully choreographed political project that at its heart gives them a final veto over constitutional change in Northern Ireland.

A complete meltdown — the collapse of a power plant's systems and its ability to keep temperatures under control — could release uranium and dangerous contaminants into the environment and pose major, widespread health risks".

After the collapse of Ṣafavid power in 1722, first the Afghans and later Nādir Shah (1736 47) seized power in Iran, which led to a resumption of hostilities in Ottoman Iraq.