Sentence examples for a swift collapse from inspiring English sources

A Swift Collapse With the army inactive, the Belgrade police collapsed.

The other course could be a swift collapse, should more summers unfold like this past one, said Steven C. Amstrup of the United States Geological Survey.

The Bug Ban brought in $1 million in a year and then came to a swift collapse as the weather cooled in the fall of 1998.

There is no guarantee that an embargo of Iranian oil will precipitate a swift collapse of its government, nor is there a good assessment of how long this country can weather an oil embargo.

If all those missing are eventually confirmed dead, at least 42 people will have died in the swift collapse of a 600-foot-high hillside.

The OBU, despite its swift collapse, left behind a significant regional legacy: thereafter, the western provinces would persistently be the site of a more progressive, politically active brand of Canadian trade unionism.

Pakistani military advisers were withdrawn from Afghanistan over the following weeks, a move that Western intelligence officials say may have been a crucial factor in the surprisingly swift collapse of Taliban forces when confronted by the Northern Alliance.

SWIFT COLLAPSE -- Initial reports were sketchy, but a senior Bush administration official said late last night that Taliban forces were deserting Kabul.

The swift collapse of the Iraqi Army took almost all of Washington by surprise.

In other European countries, the strains of the swift collapse in house prices and consumer confidence have created greater imbalances and are taking a greater toll on workers.

Reeling from the swift collapse of the military's authority, the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest Islamist group, urged protesters to show restraint or risk delaying the elections.