A report in Syria's pro-government Al-Watan newspaper on April 7 said Syrian exports basically collapsed in 2012, to $185 million compared with $7.2 billion in 2011.
Over the weekend, the Washington Post reported that negotiations for a long-term SOFA plan have basically collapsed, and now they're hoping to salvage a short-term "bridge" agreement and leave long-term negotiations until next year -- after we have sworn in a new American president.
Somalia has lurched from disaster to disaster in the past 21 years, since the central government basically collapsed.
She told me back in August that label reps tried to sign her a few years ago, at age 17, but that she basically collapsed in on herself when presented with the prospect of being in the limelight.
In the final days in the east, they basically collapsed.
But they have basically collapsed since the departure of Ralph Reed," the Christian Coalition leader who stepped down in 1997.
"There was contaminated soil, there was structural defects on the building, the hotel management industry basically collapsed, we had Sept. 11 after that, all those obstacles.
Existing carbon markets have been plagued with volatile pricing – Europe's cost of carbon has basically collapsed – or rules that prevent carbon trading with developing countries.
"We have basically collapsed since the All-Star break, and it's the first time I've seen a team collapse when it's had great pitching," Bowden said.
"It basically collapsed".
