Sentence examples for collapse of the old system from inspiring English sources
Follow the money: In our countries, huge sums of Communist Party and secret-police assets disappeared amid the collapse of the old system.
"Just by agreeing to break away and enter into a new arrangement, the Cranes are forcing the collapse of the old system," said Iosif Kobzon, a Moskva director, during a visit to the Cranes in Atlantic City this summer.
She lived through the collapse of the old system of movie-making and came through it as the last bearer of its glory and simultaneously as a gloriously liberated standard-bearer for independence and a newly emerging feminist politic.
Two of the pillars on which it was built – adequate social care and radical improvements in prevention – are crumbling in the face of relentless cuts to local government funding, the pace of change is nowhere near what is required, and the financial collapse of the old system is crushing attempts to build a new one.
In the banking sector, for example, the collapse of the old system has created an opportunity to help the Russians build, virtually from scratch, real banks that do real business, rather than just engage in speculation and arbitrage.The Russian energy sector needs $15 billion a year in investment for each of the next seven or eight years just to get back to 1988 production levels.
He makes the point that the change was more a collapse of the old system than great conviction in a new one and that bringing one system down is harder than setting a new one up.
In response, the Turks began to move into Anatolia in 1073; the collapse of the old defensive system meant that they met no opposition.
Prosecutors say the bombings stopped in 1994 after a deal brokered by Marcello Dell'Utri, a former senator and close associate of Silvio Berlusconi, who filled the vacuum left by the collapse of the old party system when he entered politics the same year.
He was appointed under the old system, and its collapse in 1991 did not interrupt his rule.
