Sentence examples for collapse of land from inspiring English sources

Traditionally most of Iowa's industrial enterprises were tied to agricultural production; however, economic downswings and the collapse of land values in the 1980s made it essential for the state to diversify its economy as well as its workforce.

When farm prices improved in the early 1880s, pressure for new monetary legislation declined, but the collapse of land and farm prices beginning in 1887 revived the demand by farmers for the unlimited coinage of silver.

The deal, if completed, would be the latest and largest consolidation in the banking industry in the aftermath of the collapse of land and stock prices in the early 1990's that left banks buried in bad loans.

The dramatic collapse of land across the region contributed directly to the economic damages and human suffering caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.

A tsunami is an unusual form of wave caused by a sudden and powerful event such as an underwater earthquake or landslide, a meteorite impact, a volcanic eruption, or a collapse of land into the sea.

Numerous reports of corruption at the Bank of Vincennes and the collapse of land values, brought on by the panic of 1819, put the bank in further financial distress.

But now something has happened – say, the collapse of a land bubble – that has forced the Sams to stop borrowing, and indeed to pay down their debt.

Political disaster befell the Republicans in the trans-Mississippi West, resulting from an economic and psychological depression that enveloped the region after widespread crop failures and the collapse of inflated land prices in the summer of 1887.

The deal follows a refusal by expert barristers to handle such cases at reduced rates, the collapse of a land bank fraud trial and its subsequent reinstatement by the court of appeal.

But now a warming climate is thawing the permafrost and melting the ice that's trapped inside, resulting in the collapse of the land.

The convictions follow the collapse of Holy Land's first trial last year and defeats in other cases the government tried to build.