Sentence examples for collapse broke from inspiring English sources

When the news of the collapse broke, "many in the country panicked," she says, and the Japanese media panned cryptocurrencies.

In April 2013, Redowan Ahmed Srabon, a university student, watched in shock as news of the Rana Plaza factory collapse broke on television.

While the fund manager refused to comment after news of the merger collapse broke on Wednesday, he spelt out the importance of BAE's relationship with the Pentagon, which buys 40% of BAE's output, in his missive to King to Monday.

The top three floors of the 8-storey building have been reduced to rubble by local authorities who in the aftermath of the nearby collapse broke down the walls and ceilings of empty flats built without approval.

They make big mistakes, they get pregnant too young, their marriages break up, they let their businesses collapse, they go broke, they invest their money unwisely, they fill their minds and stomachs with junk, they trust the wrong people, they get themselves fired from jobs they can't afford to lose, they make bad decisions for their children.

If approved, a delay would buy time for Congress, the White House and postal officials to draft a package of reforms for the cash-strapped delivery service, whose leader warned again Tuesday that it is teetering on the brink of financial collapse and likely to go broke by fall 2012.

The Americans' biggest fear about North Korea is a collapse of the state, in which a starving, broke nation simply implodes.

Allen Lane; £14.99 A riveting fly-on-the-wall account of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and what came afterwards.Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World.

6.29pm: An interesting late story, George Soros – the investor turned philanthopist who Broke The Bank of England - has compared the eurozone crisis to the collapse of the Soviet Union around 20 years ago.

In the previous three years our business had collapsed, my TV and journalistic work dried right up and I was completely, stony broke.

As it happens, the most recent such collapse occurred during the Great Depression, when Arkansas found itself, in the words of one state historian, "plain, flat broke".