Sentence examples for a precipitous collapse from inspiring English sources

Among anxious Afghans, dark scenarios are doing the rounds – a return to fundamentalist rule, a spiral into vicious civil war, or a precipitous collapse of the Karzai government.

One month on from a precipitous collapse in Donald Trump's poll ratings, many Republicans are no longer asking whether he can win the White House, but how badly he will lose.

Decades of poaching and culling and habitat loss, they claim, have so disrupted the intricate web of familial and societal relations by which young elephants have traditionally been raised in the wild, and by which established elephant herds are governed, that what we are now witnessing is nothing less than a precipitous collapse of elephant culture.

Nonetheless, the move was damaging and a factor in preventing the kind of sustained, strong and vibrant recovery one would expect after such a precipitous collapse.

"A precipitous collapse of this industry would have a severe impact on our economy, and it would be irresponsible to further weaken and destabilize our economy at this time," Perino said.

"A precipitous collapse of this industry would have a severe impact on our economy, and it would be irresponsible to further weaken and destabilize our economy at this time," Perino said, without speculating when or how the White House might take action.

On the other end of the spectrum, we see an astounding 43percentt a year contraction in Venezuelan tourism expenditures, a reflection of the precipitous collapse of the Venezuelan economy.

After all, he is facing a different electorate, one familiar with the precipitous collapse in global markets that followed Thursday's vote.

PLUNGING unemployment, rocketing growth, soaring exports and a budget surplus: that is the story of Estonia as it bounces back from a precipitous economic collapse.

But a precipitous economic collapse in the past year whipped up a storm of popular rage against Mr. Bashir, with even wealthy Sudanese suffering from chronic fuel shortages, price increases and a currency crisis.

Setting up some form of broad-based coalition to run Afghanistan has become an increasingly urgent priority for the United Nations, and the United States, with the precipitous collapse of Taliban control over many parts of the country and the return of warlords and tribal leaders to their former fiefs.