Sentence examples for chances of collapse from inspiring English sources

A chart compared the relative chances of collapse of a number of dams worldwide, and the likely death toll.

This drainage of water can destabilise the soil by washing away smaller particles - like sand - that are necessary to keep larger particles together, increasing the chances of collapse.

There is a very real chance of collapse.'" Shocking stuff – shocking enough to leave many people feeling hopeless.

Make sure the ceiling of the snow cave remains at least 1 foot (0.3m) thick to minimize the chance of collapse.

But BlackBerry is taking a terrible risk here since the Fairfax deal has a real chance of collapsing and leaving BlackBerry's committee and its shareholders with nothing.

As such Cameron can and should position himself as the defender of a European escape route from a project that has every chance of collapsing in dangerous acrimony.

About the same time, the city's engineers yesterday expanded a safety zone around buildings that they believe had a greater chance of collapsing than earlier believed.

He doesn't say exactly who these jihadists are, but presumably he's referring to Al Qaeda — an organization that has certainly demonstrated its willingness and ability to kill innocent people, but has no chance of collapsing the United States, let alone taking over the world.

They found that, under the conventional management target called maximum sustainable yield, forage fisheries have a 42% chance of collapsing.

"If we don't do anything, the system has a chance of collapsing," Grey said.

Long-read technologies, which are being developed in the last few years (Clarke et al. 2009; Eid et al. 2009; Voskoboynik et al. 2013), are specially suited for resolving repetitive regions because repeats only create assembly problems when their length exceeds the read length, i.e., as read length grows the chance of collapsing paralogous copies drops.