Sentence examples for collapse of orders from inspiring English sources

In the early 1990s, he could have picked it up cheaply because BAE was in dire trouble after a failed rights issue wrecked its credibility and it was suffering from a collapse of orders in both its civil and defence businesses.

Here the thinking is done on the run, as the collapse of order unfolds through scenes of panic and chaos.

Jones's book is about the collapse of order on a Virginia plantation after the death of its patriarch, a black slave-owner named Henry Townshend.

The big story in Mexico for the past year has been the uptick in drug violence and the collapse of order in the country.

In Korea the alternative to continued backing for General Chun would probably have been a collapse of order in South Korea, which might have induced North Korea to attact.

But a further collapse of order in Pakistan, which is increasingly described as a failing state, might encourage the soldiers to act.

The beating of Mr. Saber has provoked a different kind of outrage, crystallizing for many the collapse of order and civility that has derailed Egypt's transition from its authoritarian past.

With the shah's departure looming, and no US support for a coup forthcoming, they felt they had no choice but to seek an accommodation with opposition groups to prevent a collapse of order.

Once it may have been hard to buy the swift collapse of order that is made palpably real in "Contagion," if Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath had not already set the stage.

WHEN Ebola was at its worst in west Africa a few months ago, many worried that weak governments in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone might be swept away by riots or the collapse of order as the virus took hold.

"Islamic history has always come down very firmly on the side of order against chaos," he went on to say, "because of the fear that if you do not control these forces, the general tendency of human beings in our part of the world is to veer toward anarchy and chaos and the abuse that comes from the collapse of order.