Sentence examples for collapse in the face from inspiring English sources

In what reads like a helpless, hapless, even slapstick collapse in the face of reason, he orchestrated one after another imbroglio in which his bride, Annabella Milbanke, was forced to endure the company of his incestuous lover and their infant daughter (who, he was relieved to report, did not betray her unnatural conception by being "born an ape").

"Army discipline may well collapse in the face of widespread riots," it says.

Moreover, says Mr Watanabe, Japanese small-scale farming will collapse in the face of American agribusinesses sowing seed from planes.

President Putin has claimed he is prepared for a "catastrophic" oil price collapse in the face of tougher penalties.

David Bakradze, speaker of Georgia's parliament, believes that Russia balked at taking Tbilisi mainly because the morale of Georgians did not collapse in the face of their threat.

Normal politicians collapse in the face of scandal because it shows them dozing on the job or falling short of their promises.

The old philosophical certainties have collapsed in the face of the reality of needless suffering.

Iowa's subsidy program has collapsed in the face of a criminal investigation.

But these new ideas were wrong, and have collapsed in the face of the evidence.

Less than three years later, much of Iraq's military collapsed in the face of an Islamic State onslaught.

Public authority collapsed in the face of the advancing German army.