Sentence examples for beginning of collapse from inspiring English sources

However, there are also some who see Iraqi events as the beginning of collapse, partition, fragmentation, and bloody sectarian warfare in the entire Arab region.

At the time, Madoff's house of cards was beginning to collapse as investors, spooked by the financial crisis, pulled out large sums of money – known as redemptions.

The narrative house-of-cards begins to collapse; the reader's trust in the author's control dissipates immediately.

Even after the price of crude began to collapse in late 2014, erasing thousands of jobs, many residents managed to hang on, tightening their belts while waiting for the good times to return.

When F n reached to 67 μN, the peak of the structures began to collapse, but the formation of protrusive structures still dominated the scratching.

The wall of denial began to collapse.

This series of distinctions began to collapse in the late 1950s.

Once bits start dropping off, the very idea of Indonesia begins to collapse.

Just a few weeks ago, researchers reported that Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf had "begun to collapse because of rapid climate change".

Coincidentally, that was when two internal Bear hedge funds began to collapse because of their bets on bad mortgages.

In the 1980's and 90's, the political, religious and legal forces that had briefly converged to produce the wall of separation began to collapse.