Sentence examples for collapse of construction from inspiring English sources

And around 20m migrant workers were wending their way back to their villages, jobless after the collapse of construction and export booms in coastal cities.

Mr. Reid's popularity has been sinking, with his state hit by the collapse of construction employment and one of the highest housing foreclosure rates in the country.

The collapse of construction sent the economy into a tailspin, while plunging home prices left many people owing more than their houses were worth.

Mayors across New Jersey are preparing to see revenues vanish through tax appeals meant to lower commercial and homeowners' payments, and the collapse of construction permit fees.

1 27 p.m. | A city official identified a construction worker who was killed in the collapse of a construction crane on the Upper East Side this morning as Donald Leo.

From their first e-mails they seemed to have a rapport, but their first date took a while to put together; Mr. Kaplowitz was living at his parents' home in Westchester County because his apartment building had been damaged in the collapse of a construction crane on East 51st Street.

What went wrong: The collapse of the construction industry.

We lost close to $500bn in annual demand due to the collapse of housing construction.

But that was before the May 31 collapse of a construction crane on the Upper East Side, which killed two workers.

Even in the skilled trades where apprenticeships have caught on, the model has suffered because of the collapse of the construction industry.

Like many Spanish savings banks, known as cajas, it has been hurt by defaults on property loans as a result of the collapse of the construction industry.