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Collapsed

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Past of collapse

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The SNP came fourth in Edinburgh South in the 2010 general election but is now a serious challenge to sitting Labour MP and shadow business manager Ian Murray after the Liberal Democrat vote collapsed.

Speaking to journalists on his arrival at Vienna airport on Tuesday, Mohammad Javad Zarif said that after nine months of increasingly intense negotiations an agreement was still possible, but Tehran would not be to blame if the talks collapsed.

When a child dies of neglect or abuse, the local authority is accused of incompetence and negligence; if there is an outbreak of foot and mouth disease, claims about inadequate precautions are heard; former employees of companies which have collapsed during the recession demand to know why more has not been done to save their jobs.

Back in 1945 as Germany collapsed to defeat, Fritz Walter and his airforce base surrendered to the Americans.

Blockbuster has roughly 3,500 remaining stores in the US, making it the country's last major DVD franchise – the rival chain Hollywood Video collapsed earlier this year.

Although the control tower collapsed last week and the terminals and runways have been severely damaged by shelling, the airport holds great symbolic and strategic importance for both sides.

When she saw what had happened, Martin's wife collapsed into crying.

The glass could have been lost forever if the great south window, which has held it for the past three centuries, had collapsed.

Skip McGee – who received £8.8m of shares in March – was the most senior banker remaining from Barclays' takeover of the Wall Street operations of Lehman Brothers when the latter collapsed in September 2008.

Public mistrust of government is high in Britain, and deference to the political elite has also collapsed as economic woes erode living standards.

The prosecution of a Swedish national accused of terrorist activities in Syria has collapsed at the Old Bailey after it became clear Britain's security and intelligence agencies would have been deeply embarrassed had a trial gone ahead, the Guardian can reveal.

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