Sentence examples for avoided collapse from inspiring English sources

Greece's governing coalition avoided collapse on Monday night in the wake of a dispute over Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's decision to close the state television broadcaster.

American and Asian officials were on alert for any signs that the country, which has almost inexplicably avoided collapse in recent decades, could begin to fracture.

She fell on her opening jump, a triple lutz, but avoided collapse, drawing extended applause from the audience for her spirals and spins.

The retailer had only narrowly avoided collapse in 2009 by implementing a painful debt-for-equity swap which saw its main bank, HSBC, take a 47 per cent stake.

But some Britain and the Netherlands object to the custom that a European should automatically get the job and insisted the race was still open.Poland's government avoided collapse yesterday, as the Self-Defence party reversed its earlier pledge to leave the government, despite the firing of its leader, Andrzej Lepper.

Mr. Brown's standing has been further battered by the gloomy outlook for the Northern Rock bank, a major mortgage lender that in September endured the first run on any British bank since the 1830s, and avoided collapse by the injection of more than $47 billion in government loans.

It is hard to see how MBIA could have avoided collapsing.

It narrowly avoided collapsing in late 2008 until the German government bailed it out, and today its books are still laden with risk.

Of course, that doesn't account for national banks that avoided collapsing because of huge taxpayer bailouts — "too big to fail" banks like Citigroup and Bank of America.

What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity's use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion.

Mr. Lamy emphasized that Europe wants to assist the American steel industry in restructuring to avoid collapse.