Sentence examples for as it collapsed from inspiring English sources

The new authorities say the confirmed death toll will rise with the discovery of mass graves where the Qaddafi government hid its victims, both during its final months and as it collapsed and fled Tripoli and other population centers.

Estonia broke from the Soviet Union as it collapsed in 1991.

As it collapsed, so did the government's control of Shiite cities in the south and much of the Kurdish north.

Ms. Griess worked for Countrywide outside Boston and quit as it collapsed in 2008, saying she was distressed by internal investigations of lending practices.

The subcommittee is charging that regulators failed to act for years despite knowing Washington Mutual had problems, then argued among themselves as it collapsed.

The quake killed nearly 70,000 people as it collapsed buildings and roads and sent boulders tumbling from hills and mountains.

Brunetti thus has a dual function: to chronicle the city's decline as it collapses under the forces of progress and its own internal corruption, and to save it from itself, one crime at a time.

One is to press the argument, supported by many economists, that Germany benefits enormously from preserving the euro in its current form rather than abandoning it or standing by as it collapses.

And as it collapses, it brings everything with it".

One sequence visits an abandoned building over a decade as it collapses back into the woods that surround it; others contemplate waves, flocks of birds, a drive along a highway in a snowstorm.

As a result, the central gas cloud becomes increasingly spherically symmetric as it collapses to higher densities.