Sentence examples for causing it to collapse from inspiring English sources

The collar fell, knocking out the cranes supports and causing it to collapse onto nearby buildings.

The irony is that the Montenegrin party whose ministers walked out of the federal government, thus causing it to collapse, wants Yugoslavia to survive.

And if talks continue to go nowhere the Europeans may be considering whether to stop paying for the Palestinian Authority (PA), which runs the West Bank under Israel's eye, perhaps even causing it to collapse.

Its ability to withstand corrosion has proven a major asset, although large lead sculptures need internal reinforcement to prevent the weight of the work from causing it to collapse.

The All Blacks' pack then exerted pressure on the Samoan scrum, causing it to collapse and allowing Carter an opportunity to extend the lead with a 50-metre penalty.

Readers of this blog know that I take a somewhat ill-advised interest in the literature of the undead, but when someone dropped the galley of "The Vampire Archives: the Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published," edited by Otto Penzler, on my desk last week, nearly causing it to collapse, I realized something about my relationship with bloodsuckers: it's all dried up.

Stars are born when a globule of interstellar gas and dust condenses as its own weight causes it to collapse and shrink inward.

The delegates to a meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Puerto Vallarta have been finding out why.Starbursts are thought to begin because a cloud of gas gets nudged in just the right way to cause it to collapse under its own gravity and thus to start forming stars.

In either case, the amount of gaseous matter detected, while significant, does not contribute enough mass to the universe to slow its expansion to a halt in the future and then cause it to collapse.

History teaches that mass migrations of people, they caused great stress for the Roman Empire, maybe caused it to collapse".

Measuring the value of a qubit causes it to collapse into one of the two classical bits, 0 or 1.