Sentence examples for a terrible collapse from inspiring English sources

Even a terrible collapse at the polls is unlikely to persuade a serious opponent to join token left-wing candidates from the party to mount a challenge to Mr Brown.DAIMLERCHRYSLER has suffered the effects of depreciation in the car market.

Nothing that happened matched the terrible collapse last fall.

Nor, of course, can they anticipate the kinds of sudden, terrible collapses that are becoming almost routine.

And yet compared to the violence and repression that would soon follow the Soviet collapse — a terrible civil war followed by the triumph of the Taliban — it was a period of relative calm for many city dwellers.

Revenue remained scarce for the regency, the Genoese once again seized the imperial possessions of Chios and Phocaea, and on 19 May 1346, a part of the Hagia Sophia cathedral collapsed, a terrible omen in the eyes of the capital's inhabitants.

But Studio B and the hotchpotch of corridors and rooms around it are in a terrible state - flaking walls, collapsed ceilings and dead pigeons on the floor.

If a financial institution is too big to fail, governments have a terrible dilemma: Either they let it collapse, creating financial chaos, or they bail it out at huge cost to the taxpayer.

The nations at ICCAT meetings are typically represented by fisheries' ministers or their representatives, not the sorts of well meaning conservationists that usually attend green congresses.Letting the bluefin collapse would be a terrible, unnecessary and massive gamble.

So we had a terrible inflation, a building boom that collapsed, and acute shortages of food.

"I have a terrible headache," he said, and then collapsed.

Bush's legacy presented Obama with a terrible, horrible choice: massive deficit spending or economic collapse.