Sentence examples for claimed the collapse of from inspiring English sources

He claimed the collapse of a business venture had left him unable to pay.

For one thing, the authors claim the "collapse of residential investment was already in full swing two years before the collapse of Lehman Brothers" in September 2008.

The plaintiff in the case, Larry Silverstein, the leaseholder of the World Trade Center property, claimed that the collapse of 7 World Trade Center stemmed from airport security lapses that allowed hijackers to crash an American Airlines plane into the complex.

A retired admiral is in a row with his insurance company after it claimed that the collapse of the chimney stack on his 400-year-old house was due to "wear and tear".

As the 20th Century came to a close, there were some who claimed that the collapse of the Soviet Union marked an "end to history".

Developer Josh Sawyer lamented the decline of high-profile computer-exclusive RPGs, and claimed that the collapse of Troika Games meant that there were "no pure CRPG developers left", outside of small companies like Spiderweb Software.

United defender Chris Smalling also spoke about De Gea after his impressive display, claiming that the collapse of the 25-year-old's move to Madrid gave the whole squad a confidence boost.

Hariri's supporters took to the streets in Lebanon, rioting and claiming that the collapse of the Hariri government and Mikati's appointment as prime minister were the result of Syrian and Iranian intervention to establish Hezbollah as the dominant political faction in Lebanon.

A union official claims the "looming collapse" of Moorside is "depressingly predictable".

Although in some respects more nuanced, the book makes even more sweeping claims about the "collapse of social capital" in America than Putnam's earlier and appealingly tentative articles.

But in 1971, another group claimed it was actually the collapse of that bubble that made the noise, not the formation.