Sentence examples for civic collapse from inspiring English sources

Dawn was May, 1968, when France was on the edge of civic collapse, and the original title of "Something in the Air" was "Après Mai".

But in suggesting that a particular target of authentic religious activism should be the BNP he was also naming a wider political truth, namely that when people with civic virtues collapse in on themselves all sorts of evils can be done in their name.

But the promise of an ownership group with deep pockets and an agenda driven by civic purpose collapsed in an unsightly heap last week.

REUTERS Philadelphia Newspaper's Owners Feuding  |  At The Philadelphia Inquirer, "the promise of an ownership group with deep pockets and an agenda driven by civic purpose collapsed in an unsightly heap last week," David Carr writes in the Media Equation column in The New York Times.

The epidemic of lying and cheating and stealing makes any kind of civic life impossible; the collapse of civic life only encourages more lying, cheating and stealing".

The collapse of civic culture that has so crippled Camden is evident in its government as well.

The retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is one of many who have lately lamented the apparent collapse of civic literacy in public schools.

He is a Harvard University professor and social analyst who has charted the collapse of civic and community values in the USA.

"The World of Yesterday," written when he was in flight from the Nazi regime, evokes in sharp and nostalgic detail the artistic and political scene in fin-de-siècle Vienna, the collapse of civic society that followed the First World War, the rise of Hitler, and Zweig's experience of exile.

The defence argues that a five-hour jury selection process in his original trial was inadequate to root out prejudiced panellists in Texas's largest city, which suffered thousands of job losses and a blow to civic pride when Enron collapsed in 2001.

Nothing illustrates the collapse of American civic society more forcefully than our gated communities and bulging prisons -- standing in stark contrast to the unlocked front doors that used to be so common in large swathes of America.