Sentence examples for collapse of the federation from inspiring English sources

The principal factor in the collapse of the federation was the backcountry uprising in Guatemala led by Rafael Carrera, who established himself as the military arbiter of the state (1838) and, from the executive's chair or from behind it, controlled policy until his death in 1865.

With the collapse of the federation, Welensky moved to Salisbury, Rhodesia (renamed from Southern Rhodesia after Northern Rhodesia gained independence as Zambia).

The wars that followed the collapse of the Yugoslav Federation were the ugliest and most shaming event in our recent history.

Kosovo played a central role in the collapse of the Yugoslav federation built by the Communist strongman Josip Broz Tito, who died in 1980.

After the collapse of the Yugoslav federation in 1991, Serbia endured crippling hyperinflation and in the 1990s issued several different currencies, which were subject to significant inflationary pressures.

He is coldly calculating, yet his strategic blunders over the years have led to the collapse of the Yugoslav federation (from six republics down to two) and to the devastation of Serbia, the country at its core.

Only one man and one woman survived the collapse of the Haitian soccer federation building on Avenue Christophe in Port-au-Prince on Jan . 12

The collapse of the West Indian Federation in 1962 did not necessarily mean the extinction of any chance of unifying the Caribbean.

That was Richard Trumka, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the nation's main union federation, on the collapse of the maker of Twinkies last week.

With the collapse of the Russian Empire, a short-lived independent Transcaucasian federation was declared; after its collapse, independent states emerged in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.

They need the agreement of the federation.