Sentence examples for collapse of institutions from inspiring English sources

You're beginning to see the collapse of institutions built to insure our security.

But as the housing crisis has deepened, they have abandoned free-market orthodoxy, fearing that the collapse of institutions like Bear Stearns or either Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac could cripple the financial markets, and perhaps the economy itself.

The collapse of institutions meant to serve and protect citizens – from the criminal-justice system (which is so dysfunctional that in 2008 there were zero trials and zero convictions in the 179 murders committed that year) to our hospitals (many of which are still not open after Katrina) – is making death all too familiar and comfortable.

With the Long-Term Capital bailout as a precedent, creditors came to believe that their loans to unsound financial institutions would be made good by the Fed — as long as the collapse of those institutions would threaten the global credit system.

War is hastening the collapse of state institutions.

State failure comes in degrees and is often a function of both the collapse of state institutions and societal collapse.

And my Texas Monthly colleague Paul Burka has been moonlighting as Cassandra, deploring the collapse of state institutions during Perry's term.

The subsequent collapse of all institutions capable of bringing order to Libya has reminded a lot of people of something that happened a decade before.

Administration officials say they do not believe the failure of CIT would pose systemic risks, as the collapse of such institutions as Bear Stearns, Citibank and Bank of America would.

4. The collapse of financial institutions has vividly demonstrated how power in our major corporate rests almost exclusively in the hands of white men.

Few are playing sad cellos over the fate of such folk, especially since the collapse of the institutions they run has yielded untold financial pain.